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Happy Birthday song in Yup’ik Eskimo (mp3) click to play or right click to download and play <—Happy Birthday song in Yup’ik Eskimo (mp3) click to play or right click to download and play

Read all about it here,
Song in Yup’ik to time handwashing and here,
Song to time hand washing for hygiene and disease prevention

and by a user-drive version which should be more like the classic Eudora, Odysseus

A lot of us Eudora users are beginning to lose hope. As one Eudora user put it: “I’d resigned myself to using Eudora until it no longer worked, then throwing myself out a window in despair.”

Eudora, Penelope, Odysseus
http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2007/12/15/10803.html

WordPress Mulituser (e.g., http://edublogs.org and http://wordpress.com) don’t allow posting by email. I have never gotten BlogMailr to work, as a substitute.

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I am trying a Tumblr as a way to post to WordPress by E-mail: that is, I often have brief links or “bits and pieces” which need mentioning but not discussing. An example is Briefs 5a, now Tumblrd

//engtech guest blogged at Lorelle’s place about
What is Microblogging or Tumblelogging? Pros and Cons He also has done several greasemonkey scripts and Yahoo Pipes that make this process (sharing information via WordPress Multiuser, i.e., Edublogses) easier. (Internet duct tape to keep your on-line life together.)

Tumblr in its set up directions mentions the ability to microblog by cell phone. In fact, this is the same recipe for microblogging by E-mail. There are some quirks in the processing and display which I mentioned in my first test, Test by email.

Here are some other quirks I’ve noticed.

• The e-mail “subject” became the “title”
• The message body is the post
• A signature can be added by Eudora (all scrunched up. No paragraphs) but it takes a bit of extra coding to have it display reasonably. see example below
• Not much width allowed
• blind-copy emails aren’t posted
• cc or “carbon” copy e-mails are posted
STOP. Before emailing to your Tumblr– Tumblr doesn’t care who sends stuff to your secret Tumblr email address, so don’t broadcast the email address for posting.
• tags or categories are not added automatically. I borrowed //engtech’s http://engtech.tumblr.com/ idea of using square brackets [bird flu, teachers] as the initial E-mail subject line. Then hope that users will use their browser search function to find the correct posts (or later, you can add tags from within Tumblr’s edit function). The html site search tag doesn’t work,
• be sure to remove quotes from your E-mail forwards (strip those weird characters)
• Eudora automatically detects URLs and hotlinks them. However, this is lost when forwarded into Tumblr. The solution is to select the hotlinked text, click on the make link button, copy the URL, then paste into the e-mail message.
• Eudora sometimes translates URLs in messages with an angle bracket at either end < >
  Remove these from the E-mail (or space them away from the URL) so Tumblr will hotlink them automatically.
• It does make a difference if mail is sent “plain” or “styled”. Styled isn’t at Tumblr’s end, but Plain is styled. (Now I’ve solved the problem of why some earlier Tumblrs looked differently from others.)

Here’s how I coded the latest signature in Eudora; check it out here–

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<li><a href="http://13C4.wordpress.com">Biocultural Science & Management </a></li></ul>

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Today is the official birth date of the Edublogs Magazine. It’s been almost a year from the idea-dancing-around-our-head stage, trying to come up with a way to create an umbrella blog that would bring together the exciting Edublogs community.

We wanted to feature bloggers and news from within the Edublogs Network represented by Edublogs, Learnerblogs, Uniblogs, and ESLblogs.

We wanted to provide a place where Edublog members could publish articles offering their special insights into education today, past, and the future of online education technologies.

This link will get you started. It includes the direct links to the RSS feeds for specific categories of interest or to the magazine as a whole.

• http://magazine.edublogs.org/2008/01/28/ the-birth-of-an-online-education-magazine/

I hope you enjoy an article I wrote as well as the rest of the mag.

• http://magazine.edublogs.org/2008/01/28/ 6th-grade-entrepreneur-wins-top-volunteer-award-for-splat/

At one point there were few teachers from the tundra regions writing blogs. Few enough I could put them all into one RSS feed mix in the sidebar as I came across them.

• [Kangirsuk, Nunivik] Not Obscure (John Higham from Nunavik, Canada) http://notobscure.com/
• [Kongiganak, Toksook Bay, Tununak] Alaska The View From Up Here, (Brett Stirling who also writes for the Anchorage Daily News) http://alaskatheviewfromuphere.blogspot.com/

This year there are quite a few new teachers writing about their experience teaching in rural Alaska. All the blogs are different in their approach and frequency of posting. Some are interested in hearing from readers; others are not. Margaret Avugiak and Kendra Krenz have unique perspectives.

I haven’t run across anyone using blogs in the classroom, yet. The Shageluk school is using their website, instead.

• Shageluk school of birds

I wish more schools would use a blogging, especially WordPress.com and Edublogs.org, platform as that enables more communication between classrooms and between writers and readers. Plus, all the blogging platforms offer RSS feeds for subscribing; some offer comment feeds such as WordPress and Edublogs. (Blogspot.com or Blogger has too many hoops for ordinary folks who wish to interact with the authors. However, just about all the major blogging hosts are represented. MSN Live tends to be used more by missionaries. Xanga has too few representatives and TypePad tends to have Alaska journalists.)

Take a look at all and suggest others. The community names are in brackets [ ]. To view information about the Alaska communities, simply put the village or city name where the Xxxx are (case sensitive) in your browser address bar when you get to this link

http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Xxxx For example, information about Bethel is located here: http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Bethel

• [Alakanuk] Diane in Alaska http://dianneinalaska.livejournal.com/
• [Atmautluak] Jerry’s Dream Come True, http://alaskajerry.blogspot.com/
• [Atmautlauk], Alaska Place Based http://aan1atmau.blogspot.com/
• [Oscarville, Atmautluak] Tundra Teacher Tales, (Kip Layton, Jr also writes for the Delta Discovery newspaper) http://tundrateachertales.blogspot.com/
• [Bethel] Art Teacher in Alaska, http://alaskanteacher.blogspot.com/
• [Bethel] Tom & Andrea Go to Bethel Postcards from Bethel, (they also have a sidebar blogroll list of Tundra Teachers and resources for teaching science) http://learnscape.org/bethel
• [Bethel] Andrea’s Virtual Science Teaching Adventure http://learnscape.org/blog/
• [Bethel] Alisha’s Bethel Blog, http://alishaadventures.blogspot.com/
• [Chefornak] The world of the Chicken Avenger (a Xanga user) http://www.xanga.com/wcbpolish
• Margaret Avugiak, (raised in the Village of Chefornak) http://avugiak.blogspot.com/ [Chefornak]
• Alaska = Home http://hikecamppaddle.wordpress.com/ [Elim]
• Emmonak, Alaska http://richalaska.blogspot.com/ Richard Brisco [Emmonak]
• Katielong’s Travel Blogs http://www.travelpod.com/members/katielong [Emmonak]
• Kristen in AK http://kristeninak.wordpress.com/ [Huslia, Norton Sound]
• My Adventures http://victoriasjourneys.blogspot.com/ Victoria [Kasigluk] I will be teaching 4th-6th grade and living in a house with no plumbing.
  Classroom Tag http://classroomtag.blogspot.com/ Victoria [Kasigluk] … Exchanging traditions, customs, beliefs, and other cultural identities. … Bringing together two classrooms that are separated by thousands of miles.
• Out There(teacher, spouse) http://indefinitely.wordpress.com/ Peter Schneidler [Kasigluk]
• Rural Alaskan (Kendra Krenz raised in the Village of Kongiganak), http://ruralalaskan.blogspot.com/ [Kongiganak]
• Native Woman Educator http://nativeducator.blogspot.com/ Noel Strick [McGrath]
• Radiate Warmth, welcome home to the fireplace of thought (Kale Iverson) http://kaleiverson.blogspot.com/ [Mekoryuk]
• Fervent Verve {aka Ramblings} http://careyalaska.blogspot.com/ [Nunapitchuk]
• The Middle of Somewhere Teaching, living, and now gestating a baby in Nunapitchuk, Alaska http://smaccalaska.blogspot.com/ [Nunapitchuk]
• Shibby’s Kinda-Public Alaska Journal, http://shibbyalaska.blogspot.com/ [Nunapitchuk]
• Palmer Teacher-Librarian, http://robint.edublogs.org/ [Palmer]
• The Williamson-Logas in Alaska, http://otisandben.blogspot.com/ [Toksook Bay]

2008 They’ve moved to Montpelier, VT, another great place to live but no tundra at that elevation.

• Teaching in Toksook, http://dirksan.blogspot.com/ [Toksook Bay]
• Jimmy and Kerri in Toksook Bay, Alaska, http://jimmyandkerri.blogspot.com/ [Toksook Bay]
• fouldsy.com (teacher spouse) http://www.fouldsy.com/ [Tuntutuliak]
• AK Memories http://mariechristianson.blogspot.com/ [Tuntutuliak]
• Monica in Alaska, http://monicainalaska.livejournal.com/ [Tununak]
• The great white hype, (Jesuit Volunteers) http://sarahjones-thegreatwhitehype.blogspot.com/

• Alaska Mentor Pat http://alaskamentorpat.blogspot.com/ I work around the state of Alaska as a mentor teacher. I travel monthly to 8 different rural communities as well as working in Fairbanks. My job is to collaborate with first and second year teachers on their classroom practice.
• Alaska Professor http://alaskaprofessor.blogspot.com/

And there is this school, not exactly of children, but definitely learning and interesting.

• Nushagak Kennels http://nushagakkennels.blogspot.com/ [Nushagak]

2008-11-01 Nushagak has finally become aware– and moved to WordPress.com, http://nushagakkennels.wordpress.com

2007-12-27 Bringing the work dog back into mushing APRN.org news story from Dillingham

[revised 2008-03-17]

For another idea of what life in a remote school is like check out this news story. Be sure to read the comments posted at APRN as well.

Teaching in small rural schools presents unique challenges (mp3)

The Lake & Penninsula Borough has 14 schools but only 370 students. The smallest school has 10 students K-12. The largest has 75 students. Small schools in secluded parts of the state resent unique challenges to teachers who have to teach multiple subjects to multiple grade levels. Anne Hillman, KDLG – Dillingham 3/14/2008 06:17