I listened to Ed Tech Talk Weekly http://edtechtalk.com/EdTechWeekly155 and heard them talk about how easy Posterous was. I had seen this used by many folks and thought today was the day I would try it. This is my first post using it.
Working on Today:
1. Getting Videos ready for Community Meeting.
2. Showing a teacher how to use the Assignment Module in Moodle to send response files back to his students. Seemed like magic to him almost as they could easily see them. It did take a minute or two for him to realize he needed to attach the file so the student could see his comments. Of course he was using Word which our students no longer have access to at school. It will open in Open Office even though the students first wrote it in Pages. I am sorry for the things we do to our students.
3. Working with a class that is beta testing Typing Aces http://www.typingace.com/ online typing as I want to see how well it works and what their feedback is. They use it and post their impressions into our Moodle forum.
4. Reading about the new Moodle iPhone app that is under development. More information at http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2010/03/iphone-on-moodle-update-growing-team.html
5. Spoke with colleague about how I would like to see Durham Academy adopt Google Apps for Education so we can hook it in with Moodle for a true cloud computing solution.
6. Helped a parent and student who could not get access to a file started at school in Pages at home via email or the My Files Transfer. Would not have helped since they are using a Windows computer. That is why #5 is so important since #2 and #5 both dealt with file transfer issues.
7. Monitoring the NCTIES http://ncties.org/ conference via Twitter on the new Echofon http://echofon.com/ app. Big fan of it.
8. Having a conversation about my new class next year. Change is hard and it seems like sometimes folks would rather take the easy way to a solution instead of the best way.
9. Getting ready for Spring Break as I am ready ……
1. Getting Videos ready for Community Meeting.
2. Showing a teacher how to use the Assignment Module in Moodle to send response files back to his students. Seemed like magic to him almost as they could easily see them. It did take a minute or two for him to realize he needed to attach the file so the student could see his comments. Of course he was using Word which our students no longer have access to at school. It will open in Open Office even though the students first wrote it in Pages. I am sorry for the things we do to our students.
3. Working with a class that is beta testing Typing Aces http://www.typingace.com/ online typing as I want to see how well it works and what their feedback is. They use it and post their impressions into our Moodle forum.
4. Reading about the new Moodle iPhone app that is under development. More information at http://ignatiawebs.blogspot.com/2010/03/iphone-on-moodle-update-growing-team.html
5. Spoke with colleague about how I would like to see Durham Academy adopt Google Apps for Education so we can hook it in with Moodle for a true cloud computing solution.
6. Helped a parent and student who could not get access to a file started at school in Pages at home via email or the My Files Transfer. Would not have helped since they are using a Windows computer. That is why #5 is so important since #2 and #5 both dealt with file transfer issues.
7. Monitoring the NCTIES http://ncties.org/ conference via Twitter on the new Echofon http://echofon.com/ app. Big fan of it.
8. Having a conversation about my new class next year. Change is hard and it seems like sometimes folks would rather take the easy way to a solution instead of the best way.
9. Getting ready for Spring Break as I am ready ……
