Teacher, researcher, author, advisor, collaborator. Current passions: TP(A)CK, pedagogical reasoning & action, learning design, OERs, WMSOE.
eastern Virginia
Joined January 2011
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Announcing a new hashtag: #how2tpack for info on ways to help teachers develop their TPACK (technology, pedagogy & content knowledge)
The second link in my previous tweet is about a study that demonstrates the benefits of mind wandering. Not exactly multitasking (its title)
To see our #crin606 tweets in a larger screen area, click on the "Join the conversation" link. It will send you to your Twitter account.
Please use this: #crin606 in every class-related tweet so that all will be displayed here in Blackboard, using this nifty widget.
This is a 'test tweet' to see if the Twitter widget that Dr. H installed in the #crin606 Blackboard space is working correctly.
@aprildlaw Moodle is originally Australian, but quickly became international. Good catch! (See: http://moodle.com/hq/)
@aprildlaw I think that IMS stands for IP Multimedia System -- a kind of multimedia file that Moodle doesn't handle natively.
@KarenConnerAtWM - I checked the Moodle support fora, and unfortunately, spell check is *not* built into this version of Moodle. :-( Sorry.
In reading the groups' first drafts of their learning plans (and "hearing" folks' reports of planning), I'm excited about what's coming up!
In some respects, planning asynchronously with others with whom you already know is easier than planning f2f, once you get to the details.
@aprildlaw - How is your thinking about individualized noninteractive credit recovery courses changing -- and why?
Thanks for the updates, folks! In response to a request from April & James for their planning work, I set up wikis for everyone in Moodle.
Thanks for the update, Karen! Other folks: if you want to use Adobe Connect, too, I can set up an online meeting space for you. Pls email me
ALL: How are you communicating with your partners to write your teaching plan? This weekend, I set up spaces for each of the groups to use.
...click on 'Edit,' then scroll down and select "I don't want email copies of posts to this forum' under "Subscription."
Karen (and everyone else, too): If you don't want Moodle to send you postings by email, click on a posting that you made to a forum...