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Ok! Finally, a posting directly related to the requested topic - Open Courseware. A few other undergraduate students and I used this platform for various intructional activities. Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is popular among educators as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. Take a look at their YouTube video - however the musiccal background lacks cadence variation. Take a tour of Moodle now.

I wish I had know about some of these tools while I was in the middle school. I will definitly be exploring them more when I have time (When Hannah is about 24, I think)

"An OpenCourseWare(OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials. These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content."

Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections & exhibitions. Its "five-minute setup" makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka's stability and sustainability. (Taken from Omeka's About Page - http://omeka.org/about/) Omeka is a project of the Center for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu/)

"We will make real progress only when we realize that our problem in education is not one of performance but one of design."~ Ron Wolk, founder of Education Week. September 29, 2010 from 8.30am ~ 3.30pm in the Conference Center Lucas County Educational Service Center. The State Support Team Region1 is sponsoring this exceptional professional development opportunity for administrators, educators, and related service providers. For more information on this conference please use the hyperlink.

Great quote!

I couldn't agree more! Heaven forbid we quit beating that poor old dead horse and hop into our space shuttle for a more meaningful and thought provoking ride!