Month: July 2014
Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement
A while back, I was asked, “What engages students?” Sure, I could respond, sharing anecdotes about what I believed to be engaging, but I thought it would be so much better to lob that question to my own…
Read More »Even Our Youngest Students Need Digital Citizenship Skills
As the Internet becomes an increasingly important part of all of our lives, children are spending more time online as well. And they are doing this largely without any guidance about what is responsible or appropriate online. While…
Read More »Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry – Free ebook from Athabasca Press
Teaching in Blended Leaning Environments provides a coherent framework in which to explore the transformative concept of blended learning. Blended learning can be defined as the organic integration of thoughtfully selected and complementary face-to-face and online approaches and technologies….
Read More »Moodle Database API Examples to Learn From – Super Moodle
Moodle Database API represents a free learning administration framework that empowers you to make effective, adaptable, and captivating web learning encounters. Moodle works on any web server that backs the PHP programming dialect, and a database. It works…
Read More »A Self-Directed Learning Model For 21st Century Learners
The goal of the model isn’t content knowledge (though it should produce that), but rather something closer to wisdom–learning how to learn, understanding what’s worth understanding, and perhaps most importantly, analyzing the purpose of learning (e.g., personal and…
Read More »Moodle 2.7 some of the improvements since Moodle 2.6
This is a presentation on the key improvements available in Moodle 2.7 since Moodle 2.6 Source: www.slideshare.net See on Scoop.it – Moodlicious
Read More »Moodle Mobile 1.5 Available in Google Play
New features: * View your activity grades and outcomes (Requires configuration by the Moodle site administrator) * New sign in and manage accounts page, quick access to all your sites Improvements: * The Site URL field now supports domains without…
Read More »Moodle and LTI
LTI is acroynm for (learning tool interactive) – yes, very vague, which means lots of options or LTI services that you can utilize. On a conceptual level, moodle can act as either; A LTI provider – where your…
Read More »Would You Create An Online Course? Here’s Why Some Do (And Some Don’t)
There are a ton of sites out there now for teachers to share lesson plans and resources. Sharing, at least in this case includes having access to platforms where you can both get and give content. Teachers can find…
Read More »What media making and social learning tools are best at engaging learners?
Most agree that classrooms need to provide opportunities for students to create and engage with new media technology. However, that realization still leaves us far from the specifics needed to make it happen. What media making and social…
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