eLearning EcoSystem

Here are my goals for a district eLearning platform to be in place within 2 years: To have a complete ecosystem that allows for learning (moodle), community building/blogging/resume building/personal learning artifacts for students (mahara), and web communications and presentation archiving (dimdim). This is also a great toolset for web 2.0 technologies. The web 2.0 classroom … Read more

Creating the perfect website…

What would be an ideal online learning portal for students?  Is there one program out there that can handle ePortfolios, tests and quizzes, online learning, web publishing, social interactions, and group forming? We have some tools in place already which include Moodle and iBlog.  These tools are for teacher use and not necessarily for students … Read more

PD Day = Tech Training.

I will be providing training for web technologies this friday. Hope to see you there. I am thinking we will be exploring some of the new web technologies, working on blogging, and talking about iLearn. Depending on what you want to learn, the main focus will either be iLearn or iBlog.

Growing Pains…

Now in it’s 2nd year, iBlog has outgrown it’s server. I was getting complaints about how slow pages would load. We re purposed another server which was more powerful and installed Linux on it. I have been very happy with the new server and installing Apache, PHP, and Mysql could not have been easier. Moving … Read more