After many disappointing efforts to edit my screencasts in iMovie, only to have the software totally munge the video quality during the conversion to one of its native formats, I finally hit upon the right string of Google keywords to find what I needed to know. Simply put, you need to determine your resolution up […]
Editing screencasts in iMovie (Monday, July 23rd, 2007)
Easy slideshows in Moodle with Keynote (Tuesday, July 17th, 2007)
Everybody knows I use Moodle quite a bit, but what they might not now is I now use Keynote exclusively for anything I’m doing that’s slide-y in nature. Hey, if it’s good enough for Steve Jobs it’s good enough for me.
One of the things I like about it is just how easy it is to […]
Moodle outside of K-12 (Sunday, June 24th, 2007)
I’m a week into my online Moodle course now. I’ve actually learned some things, and had a highly productive session involving the built-in chat and a wiki. It worked out really well–three of us worked together in the chat room, and plugged in content in a wiki-based rubric. It’s great because it gives me a […]
Moodle and me: Another love-hate relationship (Tuesday, June 19th, 2007)
My Moodle course began yesterday. I’ve been using the software for a few years now, but it’s always been very seat-of-my-pants. My goal in taking this class was to get a better sense of the pedagogy behind it, but already I’ve picked up on a couple of modules I didn’t know about. They will be […]
