Last month I attend Moodle boot camp hosted by Remote Learner. The focus of the 3 days of training was on Moodle 2.0. It was one of the first training sessions they have run on Moodle 2.0. Just as it can be a challenge to first adopt it new release, attending the first training sessions can run some risks as well as not everything is always ready. I currently manage a 1.9 Moodle server and am looking forward to upgrading. …
Khan Academy, started out as one individual making math videos to help explain difficult concepts, it has grown 2,100 videos, and includes exercises and assessment. The mission, to provide high quality free education to anyone in the world. Topics focus primarily on math and science from elementary trough college levels. There are other topics related to business, finance and a growing history section. This site is well worth directing your students to or adding to any web enhanced learning environment….
I attended BLC 2010 last week and am finally getting a chance to digest and process all the information I have gathered. The following are some notes I took on some of the sessions I attended. They are pretty raw and I only have added a few thoughts since the conference. I really need to explore some of these more fully. There is just so much to learn and think about I just want to do it all and it…
Last weekend I began play around with LiveBinders. LiveBinders allows you to organize web pages, images, PDFs and documents into a virtual binder complete with tabs and sub-tabs. I had a little trouble getting started as I did not know you could add text to a page – such as the main tab pages, and how to create sub-tabs. I guess I should have watched the tutorials first. 🙂 I also noticed that in firefox I was not able to…
There has bee a lots of discussion about what it means to be literate in the 21st Century and if there is such a thing as 21st century literacy. Ryan Bretag’s The Great Literacy Debate, Ben Gray’s post 21st century confusion and 21st century clarification. There have been discussions on twitter and plurk and these lead to Will Richardson coordinating an illuminate discussion of the topic. I have never been great with semantics but I do know there are many…
This evening I attended the 2008 Edublog Awards. The event took place through a variety of tools Second Life ®, Skype, and Ed Tech Talk. The Eddies began 5 years ago and though there has been some dissension about the merit of these awards I enjoy them. They have helped me find new voices and expand my learning network. I also believe that they allow edubloggers to say thank you and recognize their fellow edubloggers. To that end I would…
The following is a post by Becky St. Onge who is a fellow collaborator and learner. Aesop proclaimed “In union there is strength.” Margaret Meade said we should “never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Vince Lombardi maintained that “individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” For centuries…