The other day I was working with the principal of our online school on creating a workflow for contacts, email, and calendar that would allow her to add, read, and create from anywhere, meaning more productivity for her. I am pretty convinced that we need to be addicted to creating …
There is a syndrome that I see from many of the people that I work with, and at many times, it I can be guilty as well. It happens when someone asks a question or has a request of you. They have a simple thought that they would like to …
Image by leff via Flickr I can only say this about a few days in my life, like the day when my daughter was born or the day that put together my first 25 page paper (all in one day), but today I am more tired than when I teach. …
Image by Irish Typepad via Flickr As I have written before, I am more and more convinced that the glue that is holding together all of the small pieces of online learning has to be as flexible and universal as Moodle. While I wasn’t convinced that it had to be …
Although I am very excited about using Google Apps for Education for school communication and collaboration I can honestly say that I am not at all happy that I can’t just simply copy embed code over to a Google Document or paste it directly into Google Sites and expect to …
Every night this week and last I have been packing. I have been packing up my family to move us to someplace better, with more room and more possibilities (and more than one bathroom). This move has gotten me thinking a lot about what to keep and what to let …
Image by Mirko Macari via Flickr While this may not be an earth shattering to anyone else, I just figured out how to embed a login to moodle into any webpage. While, I believed that this was possible, I didn’t think it would be this easy. Here is the code …
I was thinking some more about Sloodle and Second Life in general today and a thought struck me: why don’t all conferences have a SL or Open Sim component? Why do we struggle to pull together people from all over the state, country and world into 2d places like blogs, …
Image via Wikipedia I have been looking at this project for quite some time, but I have only begun to explore the real potential here. Over at Sloodle and a more recent project to port it over to Open Sim, they are marrying Moodle to a 3d virtual environment in …
Image via Wikipedia As I am pursuing my theory of Moodle as the glue that can hold together all of the parts of authentic online learning, I have been looking for other metaphors that support it. Yesterday, I came across this one: What is Moodle explained with Lego View more …