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Bob Kaehms's blogStudents looking for moodle....If you are a student and trying to log into moodle, 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/ Tim O'Reilly on Web 2.0 and Open SourceThis is a very insightful interview with Tim O'Reilly http://audio.edtechlive.com/OReilly.mp3 Solution for todays school? ... smaller class size where students can interact In terms of the value shift of commodity software, Final thoughts for teachers... have fun, and do what you have passion for. For students... find those teachers who are passionate about what they teach. Doesn't matter what it is, but you will learn more and enjoy learning, when the instructor brings a passion into the classroom. CoSN K-12 Open TechnologiesAccording to CoSN K12: Open source software, open standards and open hardware are poised to make a profound impact on K-12 education. The convergence of web technologies and a new spirit of collaboration in the education community makes this an exciting time to get involved. They have set up a web site to help with open source and open content. Information can be found here. Survey Shows U.S. Teens Confident in Their Inventiveness;More Hands-On, Project-Based Learning May Be NeededAccording to a press release distribted through the ACM,
Examples - Whirlwind Wheelchair ProjectWhile this project doesn't directly mention open source, the Examples - Open Source CarsI'm presently looking for examples of open source principals |