Archive for the ‘Online learning’ Category
Friday, September 29th, 2006
This week's Inside the Net with Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone featured Digication, a new online learning site. The main product is Digication Campus which the creator describes as:
… a web-based classroom for teachers and students. You can post assignments. Share ideas. Talk. Listen. Learn collaboratively. Get and give help. ...
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Monday, August 7th, 2006
What do you do when your technology isn't enough to set you apart? How about making questionable patent claims and suing your chief competitors? That seems to be Blackboard's new strategy.
In a nutshell, Blackboard has apparently received a broad patent that seems to cover almost all learning management system concepts ...
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Moodle fans everywhere rejoiced yesterday with the release of version 1.6. The new version brings some significant improvements. Here are a few of the ones that matter most to me:
"My Moodle" page now presents a summary of all the work going on in whatever courses a student is enrolled. We ...
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
I had the privilege of participating in a Web 2.0 panel discussion sponsored by the Digital Media Center at the U. of Minnesota recently. My fellow panelists were David Ernst from the College of Education, Shane Nackerud from the U. library, and Clancy Ratliff from the Department of Rhetoric.
Dave introduced ...
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
I'll be sitting on the panel for a seminar at the U. of Minnesota in a few weeks discussing Web 2.0. I met recently with my co-panelists and we decided to put our money where our mouths are and use a wiki to organize our presentation and invite input in ...
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
I don't know about you, but I don't usually picture -40°F and roving polar bears when think of the perfect classroom. But for Prof. Aaron Doering and the rest of the GoNorth! team, spending a few months in their arctic classroom is the perfect way to connect with millions of ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
I sat down with David Glick recently at a local library that just happens to have a coffee shop. We talked about online learning while I sipped my chai latté. Dave has been consulting with organizations that are developing online learning programs for a couple years now, and before that ...
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
Moodle is the biggest open source course management system in the world. It competes head-to-head with Blackboard on features and crushes the commercial competition on price. I've posted about the use of Moodle in my school district in the past, and anyone who's read any of those posts knows that ...
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Friday, August 12th, 2005
It's been long in coming, but the newest installment of the Savvy Technologist Podcast has finally arrived. But it's not the usual STP. I've always enjoyed the Gillmor Gang podcast and I've wanted to do something like it in the educational technology category for a long time. Now that I've ...
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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
I sat down for a chat with David Baugh in the wee hours of Thursday morning. We talked about his digital video Web site, DV in Education, and how he's using Moodle in the schools he works with. Enjoy.
Download: STP-DavidBaugh (5.4 MB, 11:41)
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
I'm working as a mentor in several ISTE Institute sessions this year and one of the participant's comments took me back several years to my first experience using online discussion forums with students. She was describing an idea for a student activity and my first thought was that it would ...
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Sunday, April 17th, 2005
I installed Moodle on a spare server last June as an experiment. Since my district was an online learning pioneer in Minnesota and continues to work in that area as part of the Northern Star Online collaborative, it seemed logical to see if some of our teachers who have gained ...
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