Editing screencasts in iMovie (Monday, July 23rd, 2007)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Instructional Technology, Moodle, Work at 7:36 pm with no comments.

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 […]

Easy slideshows in Moodle with Keynote (Tuesday, July 17th, 2007)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Instructional Technology, Moodle, Work at 10:13 am with 1 comment.

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)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Moodle, School, Work at 8:40 pm with no comments.

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)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Moodle, School at 9:56 pm with 2 comments.

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 […]