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HELP! Need Cutting Edge Schools
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Blackboard vs Moodle
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Check out Lausanne in Memphis. They host the Laptop Institute there each summer.
There are a few other school in that area as well to do not readily come to mind.
Moodle has been designed for education by educator folks. Not too fancy. Has a few foibles, can live with them considering the price is zero for the software.
Blackboard has become quite expensive over the years and is now the 800 pound gorilla try…
More to it than just which platform to choose. You need to think bigger. For example:
Q. What is your support staff? Support staff training and background? In house or contracted out?
Q. What are your curricular needs? Textbooks? Online services?…
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- At 12:18pm on February 19, 2009,
Brian Oestreich said…
- On my current reading list:
The Technology Director’s Guide to Leadership from ISTE
http://www.iste.org/source/Orders/isteProductDetail.cfm?product_code=tdlead
- At 9:13am on February 19, 2009,
Denise Musselwhite said…
- Great to see you online. Maybe this will help us stay better connected and make all of our jobs easier :-)
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James:
What should be done often differs from what has been done. In my state in order for me to work in my field for a school, town, county, or state entity I must pass an exam that relates to my job. No piece of paper, resume or degree, removes t…
cprofitt:
We generally don't test teachers in classroom management skills, or assessment strategies or theory, or parental interaction techniques, or lesson planning, or any other fundamental aspects of being a successful K-12 educator, as a condit…
I firmly believe that teachers should be tested on their ability to use technology before they are hired. Technology is an essential part of student's lives today and has become an integral part to their learning process. Therefore in order to be an…
I finished reading this last weekend.
There are some very tall orders recommended.
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Only with 24/7 access to the Internet via devices, including mobile devices, and technology-based software and resources can we achieve the kind of engagemen…
Hello everyone:I am part of the Ubuntu Educators group. This group will be working to build OpenCourseware using Moodle for use by schools migrating to FOSS. The courses will cover Ubuntu and other FOSS applications.If you are interested in helping…
Karon Tarver said: The question bothers me because technology became affordable and crept into classrooms in the 1980’s and the focus concerning “should” teachers know how to use (implies simple skill mastery) continues.
I agree. Technology has bee…
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