Teaching and learning in the classroom using the Drupal CMS
* Use Drupal in the classroom to enhance teaching and engage students with a range of learning activities
* Create blogs, online discussions, groups, and a community website using Drupal.
* Clear step-by-step instructions throughout the book
* No need for code! A teacher-friendly, comprehensive guide
A personal dumping ground for various cool quotes, the odd stat, as slides to talk around when describing how things are changing online and in media & communications generally.
Currently I avoid, as much as I can, LMSs. Instead I kluge together a loose collection of free web applications, (Eduspaces Community blog, PBwiki, Pageflakes, Audacity, a password-protected mark site, and whatever free file-hosting service my current students recommend.) It's a bit more work than using a LMS but I believe this approach, the kluging together of a selection of free web services, is a richer and more productive teaching practice.
"Basics of Sakai @ UD" won an Award of Excellence in the Printed Instructional Classroom Materials category in the annual Communications Awards competition sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services' (ACM SIGUCCS).
It's worth noting that in this particular study "social media" includes text messaging. Combined with blogging and social networking, these three technologies are used by 50% of U.S. adults for communication
Welcome to the live BETA of RezEd, your community for everything related to learning and virtual worlds! Each month we will feature inter-related podcasts, brief best practices, digital resources in the library, and featured blog posts and discussions.
Arts Metaverse provides students with the authentic and meaningful learning experience of visiting 3 -D buildings, communities, and cultures without leaving their home or school
Blogs, RSS, IM, Twitter and FriendFeed - the number of sources of sources of information online can feel like it's multiplying exponentially every day. It's easy, natural even, to feel overwhelmed.
Ideas are powerful, especially when they have become beliefs and have been unquestioned for generations. Three in particular may be standing in the way of more faculty using our new learning tools in enlightened ways.
Assuming learning is about acquiring content is a distortion of reality. Learning is about learning how to learn. It is a social process: For young people the social process must be tangible, present, and immediate; for more advanced learners, the social context is internalized but still indispensable.