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Invite to Join Dearborn’s Pin It Website

Invite to Join Dearborn’s Pin It Website

Want to see something cool just for Dearborn teachers?  You are personally invited to join  Dearborn Public School's Pin It website.  The Pin It website works very similar to Pinterest but is limited to stuff we/you post as a Dearborn School employee.  Our own private...

Deletion of Old Blogs

From time to time it is necessary to "clean house".  We have several blogs that have not been updated since 2010.  Over the next few days we will be pruning these abandoned blogs from our network.  We will be deleting blogs that have not been updated since August of...

Moodle as an LTI Provider – The New Way to Share

Moodle as an LTI Provider – The New Way to Share

I have been experimenting a little bit more with Moodle and LTI.  I truly believe this is HUGE.  I mean this is incredible stuff.  LTI which stands for Learning Tools Interoperability is a new way for systems like Moodle, Wordpress, Joomla, MediaWiki, and other...

Moodle – ChemVantage LTI Setup and Usage

Here is a great way to give access to Chemvantage videos, quizzes, and homework via Moodle.  Using LTI your Moodle website connects to ChemVantage and allows the two sites to communicate back and forth.   This means that a quiz taken using the embedded ChemVantage...

HTML 5 BigBlueButton Web Conferencing

HTML 5 BigBlueButton Web Conferencing

We just heard GREAT NEWS from the BigBlueButton Project - they are working on an HTML 5 client!  This is exciting news since many of our schools and teachers are purchasing iPads.  With the new HTML5 client these iPads will now benefit from BBB web conferencing.  Fred...

Great iBlog Websites

Hello Staff, Here is some inspiration and a quick look at what other teachers/schools are doing using iBlog. https://blog.dearbornschools.org/gwizdza/ Uses the NEW iBlog App that is compatible with iPhone/iPad/Android to post photos and more...