// Langwitches Blog

Many times, I see eyes glazing over, when I excitedly speak with parents or administrators about blogging, skyping or podcasting with students. Many of them, unfamiliar with the tools, will immediately feel uncomfortable. Some will automatically and immediately steer the conversation back to what they know:
What about learning the basics, like reading, writing, math and [...]

The Year: 2010
The Challenge: Take one photograph every day for 365 days.
Display them on my 365/2010 Challenge blog and on my Flickr 365/2010 set.
Joined the EdTech 365/2010 Flickr Group
Purpose: Digital storytelling through photo blogging and to grow as a photographer
Equipment: iPhone and Canon Rebel XS

If you are participating yourself in a 365 Photo Challenge, leave [...]

Every once in a while, I go hunting…
… hunting for plugins for my blog which is using WordPress as its platform.
Plugins are defined according to Wikipedia as:
a computer program that interacts with a host application to provide a certain, usually very specific, function “on demand”
Sometimes, I find a “cool” feature on someone else’s blog and [...]

Just a few days ago, Andrea Hernandez (edtechworkshop) and I had a  conversation about our Personal Learning Network.
A “working definition” by David Warlick says that a Personal or Professional Learning Network:
involves an individual’s topic oriented goal, a set of practices or techniques aimed at attracting or organizing a variety of relevant content sources, selected for [...]

The Edublog Awards is a wonderful way of getting an incredible list of educational blog list to explore, update your RSS feed with and learn from.
I was honored to be nominated in two categories and humbled to have been voted  Runner Up for “Best Educational Tech Support Blog. It is good to know that others [...]

I am honored that this blog has been nominated for the Edublog Awards 2009 in the following two categories:

Best Teacher Blog
Best Educational Tech and Support Blog

Thank you to all who nominated Langwitches Blog.
If you haven’t voted yet, click on the above links and cast your votes.
If you are not into the “voting” thing, follow the [...]

The Edublog Awards 2009 are open for nomination!
This is our chance to nominate and celebrate
the achievements of edubloggers, twitterers, podcasters, video makers, online communities, wiki hosts and other web based users of educational technology.
Here are the categories, I would like to nominate the following individuals:

Best individual blog- Kim Cofino- Always Learning Blog  http://mscofino.edublogs.org/
Best individual tweeter- [...]

I’ll be joining bloggers around the Web for the 2009 Geography Awareness Week Blog-a-thon, hosted by National Geographic’s My Wonderful World Campaign.
Tune in to the My Wonderful World Blog November 15-21 for a daily dose of geographic news and jottings, photos, calls to action, a mystery location quiz, and more…

Langwitches blog was nominated and placed in the
Top 100 Language Blogs 2009!
The Top 100 Language Blogs 2009 is the largest language blog competition and is hosted annually by bab.la and Lexiophiles. It is aimed at finding the best blogs related to languages and awarding language-loving bloggers. This year there were 473 nominated blogs from 26 [...]

Several people have asked me lately how to purchase their own domain name and create a WordPress blog on that domain. It is probably a good idea to write a blog post about the experience, I have had and my recommendation.

Let’s explain some of the terms you need to be familiar with:
URL:

Your domain name [...]