registered training organisations rtos across australia are helping learners gain a competitive edge in the job market using eportfolios to provide real evidence of competency as an alternative to paperbased resumes. more than ever learners are using software and webbased tools such as wikis blogs podcasts and dedicated tools like mahara and the tafe virtual campus eportfolio tool to create an epo...
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a travas de este artaculo en el diario el paas me entera sobre cursos semipresenciales que la universidad de la repablica comenzara a dictar aunque en forma parcial en el praximo aao lectivo. lo interesante de asto es que la parte no presencial de los cursos se dicta a travas de internet usando diversas herramientas y tecnologaas que permitiran a los alumnos estudiar desde el interior por ejemplo ...
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there are a number of course management systems cms for running courses via a website. these are also sometimes called learning management systems lms or virtual learning environments vle. i use moodle to look after the organic colleges distance learning courses.a this has been fantastic but i often find myself looking around at other services which would be easier for course participants to use ...
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here are notes on my successful import of 200 classes into moodle. this is part of a project to create a major assignments calendar for our upper school that calculates the number of major assignments by student rather than by grade providing a more accurate view of potential conflicts before they happen. first i wrote a perl script to export classes from education edge into a text file. i used t...
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hundreds of visitors have viewed my blog to get information about adding ecommerce functionality to moodle. well here it is. in this series of videos i show you stepbystep how to add the cutting edge ejunkie shopping cart to moodle complete with a professionallooking cart and checkout system the ability to use any payment processor not just paypal a prograde affiliate management system abilit...
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this is my first draft of this post. i would appreciate comments thoughts and suggestions even if you have a 21st century classroom flexible and adaptable even if you are a 21st century teacher an adaptor a communicator a leader and a learner a visionary and a model a collaborator and risk taker even if your curriculum reflects the new paradigm and you have the facilities and resources that ...
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...r services such as youtube and zoho. keep toolkit teachers and students can set up visual representations of their work to share with others entice new students put them up for peer review and more. moodle.org an open source solution for a course management system that can be scaled from a single instructor to an entire institution. studeous.com allows you to set up extended learning with notes me...
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image by hz536n via flickr gathering qualitative data like interviews presents an interesting alternative to classical online surveys. while in survey gathering we can setup an online environment and leave it running for longer time without our strict supervision in interview setting a realtime component is really important unless you want to do a bit longer interview over emails. a going the ...
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recently i discovered the human blog created by tomaz lasic and have very quickly become a fan of his work. he is an avid moodler who is not just using moodle in his own classroom but also has also demonstrated and proven the tool to many of his collegues as well. tomaz is a teacher and ict coordinator at belmont city college a mediumsize public school in perth western australia. as an ict coordin...
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dunque dunque vediamo se riusciamo a fare un passo avanti. rispetto a cosa rispetto allo scambio di idee avviato in questo post e nei relativi commenti. provo a buttare la alcune considerazioni che ad oggi ritengo acquisite in maniera lapidaria e sintetica e non necessariamente in ordine di importanza. la sinistra ok quella presente in parlamento nei confronti di una norma aperturista proposta da...
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for those who requested it here is the information and links to the talk i recently gave to the texas community college teachers association. approaching digital literacy creating a networked culture on campus texas community college teachers association 2008. you can download the high quality quicktime movie or the lower quality mp4. below are the references for this presentation mark pesce on h...
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just in time for my last installment on network centrality i have learned that google now ranks......
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.... hosted by edublogs. addthis url http3a2f2fmoodleman.edublogs.org2f20082f072f302fmoodleportfoliooptions2f addthis title moodleportfoliooptions addthis pub......
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when i decided to go after online marketing full time last april i had just graduated from ohio state and had nothing going for me online. i was decent with seo so i decided to play around with squidoo for a bit and see if i could get something rolling on there. pic cred since not everyone who reads this is involved in the gambling affiliate industry ill explain it a bit more in detail. for th...
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our faculty wants a major assignments master calendar in order to identify days on which too many teachers have scheduled major assignments before they impact students. in moodle students automatically see all the assignments in their courses. i want a way for each teacher to see a summary of major assignments schoolwide as they schedule their own. to complicate matters further it would be most he...
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in may 2008 texas education agency announced it was finally going to require all public school districts to prove 8th grade tech literacy in an annual report. the tool was not given and each school district was left to its own to make the best choice for itself. through the kindness of kari rhame at deer park isd i moodleized an objective piece they had been using with their 8th graders. it was no...
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... also possible. tested only on 1.9. download information demo site forum discussions these are just a few of the more interesting and mature course format now available. be sure to check out moodle.org for others that might suit your needs. demo video this text will be replaced var so new swfobjecthttpwww.edublogs.tvflvplayer.swfmpl4253508so.addparamallowscriptaccessalwaysso.addparamallow...
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i was delighted to learn about fish4info this evening a next generation library portal that seeks to make the library catalog a socially engaging destination by integrating web 2.0 technology with the catalog. from book reviews to forums comments and tags fish4info makes the library website an interactive social community. created in drupal and available free as an open source project fish4info l...
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si me preguntan acerca de si la vida es caclica inmediatamente diraa que no estoy capacitado y que ni tengo ganas de responder una pregunta de tal envergadura. lo que si podraa contarles y afirmarles que la existencia de mi blog personal es muy caclica y con ciclos bien cortos siempre relacionados con la falta de tiempo para escribir cosas nuevas. esta vez me quiero dar una nueva oportunidad que e...
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is the true open source revolution finally coming to college campuses this fall many universities are big users of open source and internet resources. but when it comes time to deliver the goods the coursework they order textbooks and throw their students the bill. now there are vendor promises to rip up those bills. thats what i call a revolution on college campuses. moodle is trying to lead th...
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a discussion at work today had me thinking about the differences between blog comments and forum posts. it originated out of this assertion by martin dougiamas the lead developer at moodle saying that he wouldnt give the blog module comments because there is no difference between a blog comment and a forum posting. unfortunately martin is wrong. his assertion that forums replace commenting in...
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in my last post i wrote about why we need an easy way to create compelling courses for the xo in order to scale constructionism to the national level here in nepal. in this article i will talk about what i think those courses should look like and how they should function. now it is time for dynamic digital coursebooks individual modules that contain lesson plans supplementary readings illustrat...
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is it just me or is there a correlation between flimsy theology and flaky web design seriously having reviewed hundreds of sites after sifting through thousands since may of 2002 i have to believe there is some linkage between bad theology and worse web designs. case in point bible truths which among its barrage of kitschy animated gifs and cheesy graphics this site erroneously preaches water bap...
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two evaluators recently returned to ole nepals office after two weeks at nepals pilot schools. they are working on an early qualitative evaluation based on interviews with teachers parents and kids participating in the pilots. i have found the insights and feedback they brought back incredibly useful. this article will focus on one particularly consistent piece of feedback from the teachers they w...
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this first byol session was turning away participants half an hour before it started necc program description michelle moore has always done a great job presenting about moodle.a todays session focusing on design and layout of courses should really have some great tips and suggestions.a as she is starting i see that the way janine and i have designed our professional development courses follows he...
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