I attended a conference yesterday where I presented along with colleagues on how our school is using Moodle and the impact it has had for changing the educational environment of our school. I started by showing a log of recent activity which is followed by my speech about “Walled Garden and Safe Digital Network” that [...]
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Students today are wonderful teachers of teachers when given the opportunity to share what they have learned from their learning network. I was working with a sixth grade class on their podcasting project for History. We were learning how to research using web sites, citing of sources, creating a Keynote slide presentation to use as [...]
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I am pleased to announce that Durham Academy will be hosting a Moodle Workshop for any teacher in the area who would like to attend.
Moodle is an Open-Source Virtual Learning Environment that can be used to extend your course or classroom. Durham Academy began using Moodle in 2006 and to date have over 100 courses [...]
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A colleague asked about Computer Programming Classes in Middle School. I found this compelling given a recent conversation I had regarding the lack of classes at our Middle School along with a need to adjust how we assess our students in the Upper School. The ideas here are generated from a listserv I belong to [...]
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Michael Wesch from Kansas State has done a lot of videos related to technology and students. Most of them focus on higher education and are very well done. His site Digital Ethnography is full of content to help learn what is happening today. He recently gave a presentation on “The Crisis of Significance“.
He posed some [...]
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As we get ready to present the Technology Task Force Proposals to the faculty and staff on Monday, 2/4 I thought I would use a bit of Web 2.0 and share the presentation using Slideshare.net.
There have been 17 people who have worked on this task force and the work represents the best practices and ideas [...]
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