Rutland Herald

Rutland Herald: "Officials at Proctor Jr.-Sr. High School have banned access from school computers to an Internet site that students have been using to post to weblogs, or blogs.

Principal Chris Sousa said the decision to block the site from school was made because blogging is not an educational use of school computers."

AN interesting article about blogging and education because it is similar in my school.
[via BoingBoing]

Updates

Here are some quick updates of what is happening.

March Theme
The April theme for Our Photoblog is Spring. Post pictures of the cheery signs of Spring such as plants, animals, weather, snow melt, and other things. I will add a little intro as usual.

New Member
We have a new member who we will be teaching/learning from. His Flickr name is tmsunflower. When he gets set up in Blogger we'll let you know and you can pop in and say hello.

Victoria Photo Club
Part of the reason I started this group blog was to teach blogging to people in Victoria. I also will be heading a photography club for a local agency. The final approval went through and my ad is in our newsletter.

We should have new members coming in the next month or so. We will introduce photography, then flickr, then photoblogging. If all goes as planned. For out of town members your role would be as it has been - a friendly voice in cyberspace who can occasionally help out.

Photo Links
I want to create a links page for Our Photoblog. It will contain galleries and blogs we like and are nice to look at. For example will link to Christine's 'Pictorial Evidence' and Lou's moblog gallery (if it is back online). Think of sites to add.

I will make a seperate 'blog' for it so that it doesn't muck up OPB.

Educational Bloggers
Lou directed me to this Flickr group. I checked it out and joined. It should provide some interesting contacts and ideas for us.

Template Creation

One of my goals when we first started the Demo Blog was to be able to create my own Blogger templates. Since then a lot of things have happened and I eventually switched from Blogger to Wordpress as my main blogging engine. When I moved my host of my domain, I got a free domain to go with it. I decided that it would be cool to get a domain with my own name and just play around.

I wanted to have a blog on it, and the easiest way to do I would be Blogger. I spent a while re-acquainting myself with the Blogger templates. After I made a design on my own, I started to make it into a Blogger template. After an hour or so I had completed the template. It was fun. If you want to see how it looks, take a look at loutamposi.net.

I would really like feedback on this. Also, If anyone is interested, I think I have a good enough grip on Blogger templates to write a tutorial. So if you want to learn, I'll be happy to write one.

lou tamposi's video blog

lou tamposi's video blog

I decided to give it a try, vblogging I mean. It's quite easy and fun. Cool.

MyBlogLog and Freevlog

MyBlogLog is a cool stat type thing that helps you track what links people follow of of your site. It is free for the basic version, but you'll like it so much that you will pay for the paid version with extra features within days. Of course your first week is a free pro version so you have time to decide.

If you ever wanted to try Videoblogging, the super technical version of audioblogging, then FreeVLog is for you. It has easy steps to setting up a free videoblog using blogger. The only thing you need to pay for is the tool you will use to record your posts. I am going to give it a try, you should to.