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 outside of K-12 (Sunday, June 24th, 2007)
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 […]
Palm support on the Mac (Monday, June 18th, 2007)
I’ve been a little cranky for the past couple of days about Palm. Love, hate. Love, hate. Hate.
The latest? This company called GoKnow Learning publishes a few apps I’m supposed to use for class–specifically, Sketchy and FlingIt!–but there are issues, wouldn’t you know.
Sketchy, prior to like version 1.9.5, doesn’t work on the T|X. The Mac […]
A new life for my Palm (Friday, June 15th, 2007)
I’m taking a course on handhelds in education this summer. It’s Palm-specific, for better or worse. I’ve learned so far that schools actually are using these things, mainly for economic reasons (a $200 Palm is much easier on the pocketbook than a computer costing five times that much).
The good news for me is the class […]
More informal learning resources (Monday, March 5th, 2007)
The more I read about informal learning, the more I realize why I never cared for school, and still don’t, really. I won’t rail on how our schools’ structure is based on antiquated, industrial era needs–that’s been covered ad nauseum elsewhere–but I will say that the system does everything it can to perpetuate itself. My […]
Web 2.0 = “Gadgets?” (Saturday, February 10th, 2007)
At my work we’ve begun a little informal, Friday lunch hour meeting called TechTank (or maybe Tech Tank? I need to ask Frank), during which people are encouraged to have lunch with us and chat about educational applications of technology. Participants tend to range from faculty comfortable with Blackboard and e-mail to people like me […]
On Informal Learning (Tuesday, January 30th, 2007)
Lately I’ve been digging into blogs, books and wiki entries about informal learning and communities of practice. This clip by Jay Cross makes everything click for me.
It seems, though, that the ideas presented by Mr. Cross fly smack in the face of the beliefs of 90 percent of the people with whom I interact in […]
