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Category Archives: education
Summer of Moodle
This summer I lead the TTL group at MassArt converting our Moodle 1.9 to 2.0 and moving it to MoodleRooms as part of it becoming MassArt’s official course-ware. We’ve been using Moodle at MassArt since 2004, first as a small pilot for the Art Education department and then as an alternative course-ware platform for the entire school. By 2010, we’d hosted our 80th course.
Google+ and Me
I’ve gotten an account at Google+
Sharing my account address seems a bit difficult (hope they let you create unique names soon) but I think it’s Here.
After spending just a little time there adding a few friends and interesting people and checking through the features, it seems to be more of a Twitter on steroids than a replacement for Facebook. It merges your existing Google apps (if you are already a Gmail and Docs user the benefits will be clear) and makes sharing and categorizing streams of interests easy.
I am liking the new features of WordPress 3.2 also. Time to upgrade Massartlonline.org again.
My MassArt WordPress Blog
I also keep a publicly accessible blog at MassArt Online where I post WordPress tips and getting started advice for the MassArt community users of our WordPress blogging site.
Posted in education
Winter Work
MassArt Online: Built with WordPressMU and BuddyPress. MassArt Faculty and students can use the site to access social tools such as forums, groups and activity feeds and maintain a personal or academic blog.
Recent conversion of Saturday Studios Student pages from Joomla with DocMan to a WordPress Blog.Students contribute original lesson plans and galleries of their experiences teaching in the Saturday Studios program.
This ties the work students do in Saturday Studios with the blog platform they are beginning to use in earlier courses. The use of a blogging platform for academic writing and portfolios results in each student developing a rich ePortfolio while learning real-world new media skills.
MassArt Online Courses:
Moodle 2.0 development and migration from 1.9.x continues.
We have our testing server up. Live courses are in the 1.9.x build.
