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Here is a rough draft of some ways that Moodle can be used for student centered learning. This is in response to criticisms that Moodle is teacher/course centered and not student centered. I am also presenting a session “Moodle: Your Web 2.0 One Stop Shop” in Napa in November and wanted to get some brainstorming [...]

I read a very nice set of arguments for the merger from an Elluminate employee here. However I believe the arguments have a few fallacies: Argument that Elluminate is too small to compete and the only way to increase competition is to decrease the number of firms. Sounds like reverse logic. In order to provide [...]

In reading the news about Blackboard’s take over of Elluminate and Wimba (on the heel of the take over of WebCT and ANGEL), I got a little fired up and decided to check out Blackboard’s public financial statements. I have prepared an argument against any institution choosing Blackboard based on this information: 1. Most of [...]

Just finished a nice high school English e-portfolio project (I am going to drop the e for the rest of the post). Here is a page with links to the student work http://www.english2010.com. The project had two parts: a group portfolio, of mostly new work, and an individual portfolio, reflecting on work done during the [...]

This post is inspired by the comments by Mark who criticized 21 century learning and ed tech as hype on the blog linked below.  It started as a comment and then kind of grew, so I finished it here. http://philly-teacher.blogspot.com/2010/05/politics-and-education.html I think the very fact that I can read the blog linked above and write [...]