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Etherpad is back.

For those who haven't already seen it, here is a free online guide on the Wave from Google.

Welcome to the LearnerScript reports rebranding concept explanatory short video. In this video, you will see how we can change any particular Moodle report colors according to your need. Let's dive into the video now! To rebrand any particular report on the LearnerScript you need to first click on the "Customise this page" button. Now let's visit any dashboard from the LearnerScript Here on this New Test Dashboard, we will rebrand the "Trending Course" and "Activities" reports. To rebrand the report you need to click on the settings cog icon and select the "Configure Report Tile Block" option from this settings menu. From this "Configuring a Report Tile block" page, you can change the Background Colour and Text Colour fields according to your need and then click on the "Save changes" button. Now you can see here that the "Trending course" tile colors have been modified. Similarly, you can rebrand the "Activities" report tile as well using the same steps showed previously. You can also change the icon on this tile report according to your need.

I am testing the possibility that our course documents might be useful to others in that we could highlight passages and add comments (via stick notes on the original pdfs) in Diigo as a way of interacting on the readings. I expect users to require memberships in both Diigo and in Google Documents (both free, and the latter comes automatically with a gmail account). Please let me know whether you have problems accessing my highlights and/or comments and whether you can access the full text of the pdfs from where you are. Thanks, radney (jrradney@gmail.com).

Here's the Wikipedia article on heutagogy; note the references.

Although this article is about the use of Twitter in the classroom to provide a backchannel for discussion during lectures, I find that the Chat tools in MOODLE work really well for students who are in my face-to-face sessions. They love the possibility of chatting during class (with my permission--and they are aware of my monitoring the discussion), and students who must miss class staying home with a sick child, etc. can ask questions and get answers from students who are in the session.

Thanks Radney for this. I found this article very useful especially the quote "the integration of Twitter has been a virtually bureaucracy-free endeavor". I also liked this "Twitter helps to overcome the shyness barrier" - a good point.

Yes, the shyness factor is a major one in engaging students in class activities. I find that the more text-based the participation, the more engaged shy students become.

Here is an on-the-fly place to create a text chatroom for synchronous sessions.