Gravity Forms is a wonderful plugin available to our network that allows site admin to create powerful forms that users can fill out. Part of the beauty of these forms is the powerful notification system. When a form is filled out you can have the input emailed to multiple email addresses. I recently found out …
Category: Skill Share
ALC Foldy Template
I wanted to share this print template so you can make your own foldy! Here’s a picture of the template below. Download a Photoshop version (with layers and guides) or use this PDF version for printing (or print the image below). Here’s an example of the “Yay School” foldy I made.
Revision History on WordPress Posts
Collaboration is the name of the game inside ALC. We are all actively engaged in collaboratively building schools, community, and (importantly) documentation about such efforts. WordPress (the system this website is build on) offers great features for collaboration through it’s post editing process. I’d like to quickly share one powerful feature called revision history. I’m going …
Adding Editors to Your Blog
If you want other people to be able to edit pages on your site you first need to add them to your site and set their privileges to give them editing access. Each user on your site is tied to their main user account, so if they have an account on the ALC site then …
Privacy on our website
There has been a discussion about blogging on the All ALF’s email list recently and it touched on blog privacy. I wanted to write an outline of what your options are in terms of privacy when it comes to this site. First of all as a general rule, anything you put on the internet can …
My new personal kanban
I really like the kanban. Before I had any idea what to call it I was using it. This was back in 2010 when I was a freelance web designer/developer. I had struggled with task management for some time, tried out all the different apps and computer based programs. From the nerdy command line tool …
Two Boots, a Cool Disk Game
I learned a game up at Cloud House over the break. It’s a disk game (disk is the general term for Frisbee, which is a brand of disk. Much like Kleenex is used to describe tissue paper) that, at the time I learned it, involves 2 boots. It’s very easy to play and can be …
Making Offerings Work
Yesterday was our first day back, the start of a new term. I’m hoping that the theme of this new term will be more parental involvement. Last year the students learned the process, intention setting, collaborative play, and reflection. We carved out the space, now it’s time to fill it. Typically we fill our space …
Introducing the ROTA
I’d like to share something I found out East at Acorn Community. If you’ve ever lived with any number of other humans you know the universal pain point that is chores. You’re either doing them all or dealing with passive aggressive notes. To over come this sticking point Acorn used a weekly process called the ROTA. …
Better Blogging Through Chemistry
The 21st century world demands the creation of visible, shareable value as evidence of learning. From Agile Learning Center Roots This monday the Facilitators across the ALC network gathered for our weekly video call. We got on the the topic of how to ALF so kids will blog. I’ve gathered some of the ideas we …