Happy Leap Day!

Today I found that the template was changed to a more accessible format (no Flash). Good job to whoever did that. This will make it possible for us to began adding content and making the site ours. I added links to other sites that contain Snow Snakes information and deleted the Joomla links that were already in that folder. I'm going to continue manipulating the site till someone tells me to slow down. I think next is to get all of the categories we want on the site decided. I'm going to create a list this weekend and send it out to the team for their ideas.

Another Joomla Romp

Joomla isn't that scary anymore. I'm now eager to begin the project. I hope I am not alone in my excitement.

Content

I have three historical articles and one book with another on the way concerning American Indian games and snow snakes. I will bring them on Tuesday. I think another step is to dig up the MN K-12 standards documents so that we can begin to align what we are doing. National Standards would be another resource to find. I will be honest and say that I am not sure where to start with Joomla. On Tuesday I would like to begin to assign specific tasks for each of us so that we can proceed in a more focused manner. Nice work so far with wrestling with Joomla.

Joomla is weird, but I'm getting to like Snowsnake

This week I put some time into learning some Joomla. I was not the one who changed the header to "Company Name", but I like it. I think it ties in well with our theme. Most of what I did was experiment in uploading content. I erased all of this stuff (because it wasnt really relevent to the project), but I did accomplish embedding a You Tube video onto the site. Check it out. I'm not sure if the game depicted in the video is equivalent with the one being used in Northern Minnesota (I'm sure there are variations), but it does a good job in describing the game and showing people playing it.

A few questions did arise:
1. Are we going to call the game "Snow Snakes", "Snow Snake", or "Snowsnakes". I've seen the game entitled all three ways on the net and it would probably be good for our project if we all use the same term. I noticed this blog is entitled "Snow Snakes", so maybe we should just stick with that.
2. Everything I've posted goes into the Blog section on our Joomla site. Even if I assign the sections News or Newsflash, it lands in the Blog section. It might be because I begin with the content manager each time. I'm not sure on that one yet.
3. Joomla Explorer does not run on my computer. Each time I fire it up, it sends me to the logon page. I then logon, but then it takes me back to the Home page of the Administrator sitean d I still can't use Explorer. Anyone have success with this?

That's all I got thus far. I can see many mathematical possibilities for our curriculum and will probably get started on that soon.

Class

I won't be in class this week - I have to go coach my Knowledge Bowl teams to...mediocrity in the conference tournament? Don't tell them I said that.

Jim, does the fancy header that I assume you put in count as some type of media? It's animated! That may be a stretch, but otherwise we need to come up with something.

Snow Snake update and Joomla

Hey crew,
I dug up some gems from around 1909 - 1920 in the American Anthropologist about snow snakes. I will synthesize and report soon (hopefully). On a Joomla note, Aaron mentioned finding some way of presenting media in Joomla. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on this? I need to find a remedial Joomla class somewhere.

Beginning

Joomla is frustrating!