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1st - it is awesome to have an embedded Google calendar in Moodle.
2nd - there are some glitches with some bad side effects. 1 - I had a teacher embed her calendar as a "label" - it took away all her edit tools and deleted everything on her Moodl...
While Moodle can be used for creating whole classes online, that is not how Lake Orion is using it. Our teachers use it in various ways to enhance student learning and to go paperless.
Students routinely upload assignments - Word Docs, PPT's, Exc...
I haven't personally used it, but usually when there is no reply button the problem is in how the forum was initially set up. On every Moodle page there is a "News Forum" already set up which is meant for the teacher to just post news. If you try ...
I have used the traditional form in class and it has worked well, I saw this post and tried the Q and A function. I think this would work great with a controversial topic, but I prefer the traditional forum when trying to get discussions going. I ...
Suing or Using? Lake Orion is using Moodle.
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- Place of Employment:
- Waldon Middle School
- Job Title:
- Media Specialist, Instructional Technology Leader
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- At 10:49am on September 19, 2009,
Mark Cruthers said…
- Hi Melissa,
With your work in Instructional Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording you might find of interest.
- At 10:15am on October 28, 2008,
Ben Rimes said… - Welcome to MACUL Space, Melissa! Glad to have you on the site; you might want to check out the Library and Information Literacy Group.
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Let's talk blended learning here. With the increase in blended learning taking place, it's great to have a spot to connect, share ideas, resources, suggestions, etc.
I'm presenting at MACUL at two different sessions one on how to use Google SketchUp and the other on how to use Blender (both are free 3D modeling software applications).
I am currently posting video podcasts and sketchup files on MI Learning (iT...
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Congratulations to Ben Rimes on their new baby born today (Saturday, December 5) at 2:33 a.m.!
There are also a huge amount of videos on YouTube about this Wii Interactive Whiteboard System. Just search for IR PEN, or if you want to see me make a professor of myself search for "nerd ir pen".
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This group is for people who are interested in using Skype to connect with other teachers for idea sharing, and for classroom video conferencing.
In this session, Nellie Deutsch will talk about the subject & predicate of a sentence and subject/verb agreement.
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