DV for Teachers

This is the new DV for Teachers – lots of tweaking to do, but at last we’re back up and running. This look is going to change, and I have to get my categories going, the link lists, and find a way to incorportate the old posts from Manilasites. They’re not lost… they’re just in Manila, and hard to get out in a format that will work in WordPress, the blogging software I’m using now. One more time, a huge thanks to Userland for the years of hosting the first incarnation of DV for Teachers.

I’ve known for a while that it was time. This blog is all grown up and needs its own place, at DVforTeachers.com. I’ve had the domain for a while, but was waiting for the site’s 5th anniversary to make the switch. Well, I can say with nothing but appreciation that Userland has made my mind up for me. I couldn’t load this site Tuesday the 15th, and Wednesday morning this notice appeared -

SERVICE NOTE: UserLand will no longer be providing free Manila site hosting. Sites will stop running as of December 31, 2005.

Since that time I’ve been carefully looking at hosting providers, and I think I’ve found a good home at TextDrive. I have sincere and deep gratitude to Userland for the free server space, bandwidth, and support. They’ve provided free hosting for this and other manilasites.com sites for several years – since January of 2001 for me. They’ve provided a great learning resource while many many non-techies learned about the opportunity the web offers and the power of personal publishing. Thanks again, Userland.

The new site will be up by December 3 or 4, and I’ll be moving the complete archives over within a few days.

Learning how to use this blog has taught me so much: about the web, about blogging, about video and multimedia for education; I could go on – and will, once I’ve moved. I wish Userland and their helpful staff all the best. This is my last post at this URL, but DV for Teachers is only moving, and I hope, getting better. Thanks for reading.