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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...
As you are aware, the district is required to provide a filtered Internet experience. By federal law, we must filter access. However, the law has different scopes. For example, the filtering that we must do for students is different than the filtering that must be...
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...
One of the issues that comes up frequently is the issue of copyright (see the September 10th post). One of the areas that copyright has made the news is in music. Frequently, I get requests to open sites that are dedicated to music. Music can be powerful in education....
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...
Introduction Moodle is an incredible online learning tool. In Dearborn Public Schools we have a very specialized installation of Moodle which we call iLearn. Our Moodle install has the added features of web conferencing, real-time collaborative document editing,...
Email is its very own phenomena. It was designed to share very short pieces of text. It has since grown exponentially in terms of what is shared and how. Email brings lots of frustration as well. Different people have different expectations. We can't fix all of what...
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...
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