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Jimmie Quesinberry

Moodle.org: open-source community-based tools for learning - 0 views

moodle.org

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shared by Jimmie Quesinberry on 29 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Jimmie Quesinberry on 29 Jun 10
     
    "Welcome to the Moodle community! Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. Moodle.org is our community site where Moodle is made and discussed. Please use the menus to explore and join in!"
Jimmie Quesinberry

p2pu | Learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything - 0 views

p2pu.org

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  • Jimmie Quesinberry on 29 Jun 10
     
    "The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well. Sign-up for the next round of courses is tentatively scheduled to open in September 2010. However, you can still access all the course materials and even follow the discussions. And our pilot phase courses are in the http://archive.p2pu.org."
Jimmie Quesinberry

World is Open-Chapter 2-E-Books (GO LIVE! with North Carolina Virtual Public School and... - 0 views

sites.google.com/...orld-is-open-chapter-2-e-books

shared by Jimmie Quesinberry on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
    • Jimmie Quesinberry
      Jimmie Quesinberry on 19 Apr 10
       
      There is nothing that is required for this part of the assignment, but you might explore how this might work by...
  • In your district or school do you encourage access to free and open resources?
  • (pg 37-62)
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  • Knowing how to acquire the right information when needed is more importnat than memorization.
  • Part I Activity: How is the chapter 2 guiding question and Masie’s "fingertip knowledge" reflected in classroom instruction in your school or district? To discuss this guiding question, go to Discussion Board below in the Connecting, Communicating, and Collaborating section of the Navigation Bar.
    • Jimmie Quesinberry
      Jimmie Quesinberry on 19 Apr 10
       
      When you request to join the group, then you will receive notification that you can then post. There may be a slight delay so it may be necessary to write your comments in another location and transfer them on another day.
  • Additional Chapter 2 Activity: To better experience "fingertip knowledge" and ease of information access use Google Squared, http://www.google.com/squared.  Google Squared pulls information from various websites into a table format for rapid location and connection of information. Keep in mind Albert Einstein's quote," Information is not knowledge."
    • Jimmie Quesinberry
      Jimmie Quesinberry on 19 Apr 10
       
      There is nothing that is required for this assignment, but you might try and find wayst that this might be useful by exploring a video tutorial about Google Squared.
    • Jimmie Quesinberry
      Jimmie Quesinberry on 19 Apr 10
  • Wallwisher
  •  http://worldisopen.com/resources.php#chapter2
  • Bound By Law,
  • How are ebooks used in your school or district? Which district policies encourage or discourage use of ebooks?
    • Jimmie Quesinberry
      Jimmie Quesinberry on 19 Apr 10
       
      You will respond to this question on the Wallwisher board.
    • Jimmie Quesinberry
      Jimmie Quesinberry on 19 Apr 10
       
      http://books.google.com/books to see ebooks online. To see full books, then choose "Full View."
    • Jimmie Quesinberry
      Jimmie Quesinberry on 19 Apr 10
  • (pg 72-84).
    • Jimmie Quesinberry
      Jimmie Quesinberry on 19 Apr 10
       
      Don't miss the video below the Wallwisher board.
Paula Chandler

Free and Open Source Software and Courseware - A User Guide - 0 views

community.flexiblelearning.net.au/...article_6885.htm

**Open Course Ware **World is Open **Chapter 4.5

shared by Paula Chandler on 09 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Before I was aware of the free and open source software alternatives, I would have probably accepted this request as fair enough. But when I learned how good Open Office was for example, and saw what OpenOffice.org had to say on their website, "You can install this software on every computer in the school and on every pupil's and every teacher's computer at home without paying any license fees. Please encourage others to do so..." I had to ask these questions: Why are public education departments buying software at such an expense, and insisting that their staff and students use the same, when the equivalent alternatives in software are not only free, open and more flexible, but are more equitable, accessible, usable and reliable for the students and teachers? And while we are considering that question I'd like to put forward another: Why are those same public departments investing so much in a culture and practice of copyright, intellectual property and user pays business models when technology such as the Internet, free and open source software, and concepts like open courseware make it economically viable to at last offer a free and open education equally to all?
    • Paula Chandler
      Paula Chandler on 09 Jul 11
       
      The above excerpt from the article I found at flexiblelearning.net stuck out to me because until I started reading The World is Open, I was not aware that there were free alternatives to such expensive software such as the Microsoft Office Suite that our district pays tens of thousands of dollars for each year to maintain the licenses. When I started using google docs, I was amazed at the sharing abilities and the many other capabilities that exist with such Open Source resources. At this point I have not actualy created documents in google docs but look forward to doing so.
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