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Bob Kaehms's blogStudents looking for moodle....If you are a student and trying to log into moodle, Bloom's Taxonomy DigitallyThere are a lot of learning models kicked around in education. Definitely worth reading: What Colleges Can Learn From Newspapers' DeclineIn 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: 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. When Book Readers Aren't EnoughIf 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 This is what I was thinking about. I am glad someone else came up with it. Virtual calculatorI found this site while doing some work for a client. This seems Here's a scientific calculator: Alice Teaches ProgrammingMy daughter recently sent me a link to Randy Pausch's last lecture, For those who may not have seen it yet, and don't know about Randy, 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. Moodle Scaling issues and benchmarksRecently 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, Classroom 2.0 Lightening talk slidesI am writing this from a school 2.0 web conference, where I just gave a simple lightening talk. Literally ran in off the bus (BART), 5 minutes before the talk... ran down the street the wrong way to realize that the front door was right at the BART station. Not sure how the talk went, but it was fun meeting so many teachers that understand the importance of collaborative learning. One interesting new tool is a new product for realtime online collaboration that has an interesting use in the classroom... "view", spelled "vyew".... http://vyew.com/content/ |