Czeching in on Tech
I've recently been involved with several projects where the question arose how to handle online presence. Everybody always agrees that you need a website and these days somebody always asks what about Facebook. And with a really hip crowd, you also get a question about Twitter or maybe LinkedIn. But the online presence world is…
Read more →Inifinte webinar (Photo credit: RubyJi) I've been using GoToMeeting (GTM) and GoToWebinar (GTW) for three years now, so I thought, it's time to share some experiences. Citrix has been very slow to innovate so I have been looking for alternatives but so far have not found the perfect one to justify…
Read more →Why text to speech Balabolka I'm taking a MOOC (a Massive Open Online Course) on Coursera . It's a literature course on Fantasy and Science Fiction and I noticed on the forums some people were worried about the amount of reading. I'm pretty busy these days so I decided I'd…
Read more →I talked about some Moodle UX problems on the admin side . These are some student facing UX improvements that would make the world a better place. 1. Better course navigation: No scroll of death There really isn't much more to say. Get rid of the scroll of death. There is simply no instance where…
Read more →Moodle 2 has introduced some useful features that make administration easier. The search admin option, docking, AJAXified search of user lists, permissions setting, etc. But at the same time, it left important things out and/or made others more difficult. Some of these must be through inattention and some through making assumptions about how Moodle is…
Read more →Here are a few reflections on Moodle and Moodle Moot. UPDATE: I've remembered 2 more things I've learned: using SoundCloud to share audio feedback and the proposed Appification of Moodle addons. Find these new lessons at the bottom of the page . A. General Lessons about Moodle 1. Community participation matters I need to be…
Read more →Google is about to conduct a usability study on Drupal to add to previous efforts in this area. This prompted me to put down what I see as the biggest usability problems with Drupal. This is based on the most frequent issues I have to provide support for - both end users and office administrators…
Read more →This is a sneak peak at the slides on Slideshare (subject to small changes) of a talk I'll be giving at Moodle Moot UK 2011. I'll be sharing our experiences with using various (mostly cloud-based ) tools to provide Moodle support in a purely e-learning environment with no face-to-face training available. The full text of…
Read more →I just gave the following answer to this question from a student. Perhaps somebody can find this useful. Comments welcome: does anyone know the rules about using images from the internet for teaching resources in terms of copyright? I have been copying pictures willy nilly but not sure if that is legal.... Please don't take…
Read more →Here's a great example of an experimenting teacher talking about creative use of cheap and available technologies to solve real educational problems:
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