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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 …

Image via CrunchBase I want to make sure that I talk about this before I lose sight of the student’s faces when they started… Today I had the distinct pleasure of meeting with many of the students in our online school for CSAP testing. It was the first time that …

Earlier today I was talking with a colleague that I highly respect who was challenging the premise of my blog post from yesterday.  She was saying that if I truly wanted to recast education as a new character that I would need to define what it is that I can …