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While looking for recent upgrades, and any references to Oracle's
future plans for Open Office, I ran across the Open Office for Education website at:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project

Not sure of activity, but while following a few links, I was
able to find a fairly interesting open office math project at
this URL:

http://www.dmaths.org/documentation/doku.php?id=presentation:en

There are a lot of learning models kicked around in education.
Today, I read a wonderful piece based on Blooms Taxonomy, extended
to consider knowledge management as including network knowledge
integral to traditional personal knowledge.

Definitely worth reading:

http://techlearning.com/article/8670

In Kevin Carey's article, What Colleges Can Learn From Newspapers' Decline, which originally appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, he makes a compelling argument that Internet influences similar to those that have impacted the newspaper business may also influence institutions of higher education.

See:
http://www.educationsector.org/analysis/analysis_show.htm?doc_id=870993

In his article, Carey states:

Some people will argue that the best traditional college courses are superior to any online offering, and they're often right. There is no substitute for a live teacher and student, meeting minds. But remember, that's far from the experience of the lower-division undergraduate sitting in the back row of a lecture hall. All she's getting is a live version of what iTunes University offers free, minus the ability to pause, rewind, and fast forward at a time and place of her choosing.

If schools are going to move to a 1 to 1 model, they will have to find that happy medium between the expensive Apple notebook and the
non-functional Kindle book reader.

This is what I was thinking about. I am glad someone else came up with it.

By Bob Kaehms at 2009-06-12 22:31 | login or register to post comments | read more

Community Earth from piergiu on Vimeo.

I found this site while doing some work for a client. This seems
to be a great alternative to requiring students to buy calculators:

Here's a scientific calculator:

My daughter recently sent me a link to Randy Pausch's last lecture,
a well known and inspiring talk that is circulating the internet.

For those who may not have seen it yet, and don't know about Randy,
he is a wonderful educator that has been involved with Virtual Reality since the early 90s, inspiring a generation of innovation.

While I've linked to the talk below, I think a very interesting project that has been created under his guidance, and should be underscored, is the Alice project, that uses a 3D environment to teach students programming.

See www.alice.org for details.

Recently one of the teachers that I am supporting with moodle wrote me to inform me that moodle had failed miserably during a class quiz.

She enjoys it so much that she has made it central to her classroom management. However, my initial assumptions for supporting Moodle were to use it in a asynchronous mode - mostly for posting class notes, and providing a space for students to work from home.

For those of you that want to skip this article, the general consensus is that for realtime class activity of 30-40 students,
you should consider finding a computer with at least 4 gig of memory. Moodle can be a memory hog. For the rest of you, read on.