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, June 29th, 2005
21st Century Skills come up a lot in the literature about one-to-one computing. This session is called "School Leader Development: Building 21st Century School" and is presented by a number of folks who work through Microsoft's Partners in Learning program.
The presentation begins with some information about globalization. They mention Friedman's ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 was released yesterday. My school district has standardized on Debian for several key applications such as Request Tracker and Moodle over the last year. While it may not have the glitzy, commercial appeal of RedHat or Suse, it's rock-solid. The new version brings all the major components ...
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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 ...
Posted in Curriculum Resources, Online learning | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
ExploreLearning.com is a subscription service that has about 600 science and math simulations. Here's the official word from their site:
ExploreLearning offers a catalog of modular, interactive simulations in math and science for teachers and students in grades 6-12. We call these simulations Gizmos. Gizmos are fun, easy to use, and ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
We're starting to get some traction with wikis in our district. One of our social studies teachers is using Moodle's wiki module in her 7th grade geography class for a unit on Asia. She created a skeleton outline in the wiki, providing a bulleted list of topics like landforms, climate, ...
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Monday, January 24th, 2005
The International Open Source Network (IOSN) has just released a primer on Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) in education. The document highlights uses of open source software in the infrastructure, administration, and classroom work of schools, focusing on a number of high-profile projects such as the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), ...
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Monday, January 17th, 2005
In an article (subscription only) in today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Kevin Delaney highlights some of the really cool work that a couple Hopkins teachers have been doing with online forums over the last year or so. John Unruh-Friesen and Molly Wieland have been engaging their students in authentic and ...
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Sunday, December 5th, 2004
My blog and wiki workshop at the TIES conference went well. None of the atttendees had a real clear idea what blogs were about when they started. I'd like to think that they left at the end of the day with some good ideas about how blogs and wikis can ...
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2004
I've been meaning to put in a plug for TeacherHosting.com since getting back from NECC. I get questions occasionally from teachers who want to know how to get started with blogs, and I've usually recommended Typepad. That's a great system, but TeacherHosting.com has even better prices for an unlimited number ...
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2004
I continue to consider how wikis can be used with students and have been second guessing my decision to install Mediawiki, the software that runs the Wikipedia. Not that Mediawiki isn't powerful software, it's just that it may be a little too complex. Now that Moodle has a built-in wiki ...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2004
I got together with Pete Misner Wednesday afternoon at Starbucks and talked about Moodle for a while. Pete gave a workshop earlier in the week where he demonstrated and taught the participants how to use Moodle and manage courses. Once again, it was great to be able to meet someone ...
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