Talk About Transparency, Watch Me Learn This (Or Not)

Since this whole week is about my own learning and I have another hour and a half until dinner and the pedicure places are all closed, let’s try this “picture in a post” challenge.

No luck. The pictures I tried to upload, following Carolyn’s excellent tutorial, lead me to a message from WordPress, “File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another.” These were images I took with my digital camera, had transferred to a disk at Walmart and then saved on my computer. What am I missing? This is why I’ve given it up every time, it takes too much time! This should be easier.

Okay then, it’s a bit later in the evening and I’m giving it another go with the help of James Farmer’s tutorial link that he left on a previous post, It Might Seem Simple to You. Amazingly, but not to James as he knew it all along, this is a brilliant tutorial in which I also learned (after a year of working on edublogs) how to properly paste a word document into my post and how to time stamp a post to a later date. Had I only taken the time, James had it all right there. Thank you!

So here’s my second attempt at posting a picture, I’ll try a different file. TA DA! Here is out super fly teacher band, the Ratler and the Shakers after their performance at the G-Town Show Down.

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Still hoping to find out how to get around that security message from earlier with my own pictures and still not sure how to make that image larger, but hey, I’ll take this small success!

High School’s New Face Kicks It Off Tomorrow

I’m at High School’s New Face this week, a cutting edge conference in Ellicottville, New York. I’ll be blogging about it all week from the perspective of a conference participant in the Personalizing Learning strand with Monte Selby and Tony Limoges. If you are interested in the vision of education in Western New York, you can check back here for the blog posts or better yet, go to the HSNF website to catch the streaming video. Today is a set up day for all of the BOCES staff development and tech experts and I’m lucky to be here helping with set up.

This is the same conference I attended last year where I learned about and started blogging with Will Richardson. It was the best learning experience I’ve had in many years so these guys have some big shoes to fill.

My hope is that blogging about the conference will help share the learning with others who are interested in improvement in education. We have 48 high school teams attending, four people on each team. Our Gowanda team arrives tomorrow–hope they’re ready for a week of learning, including an opportunity to challenge their thinking.  Looking forward to seeing you–Joe, Barb, Beth, and Amy from G-Town and all of our participants from across Western New York.