Tag: Observations
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Moodle management musings
Well, it’s been a day tooling around with Moodle and learning it’s ins and outs. There are a few things that I can certainly see that are appealing about it compared to WebCT. Chief among these are outlines for how courses are delivered. Moodle allows for weekly or topically based courses. You can do that…
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Just enough technology II
One of the discussions that is likely just as active on my campus as anywhere else that has either Blackboard or WebCT running as their CMS is “what about open source”? Many institutions are looking at either Moodle or Sakai because they are open source and their costs can be controlled. I am surely hoping…
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Failure to understand… failure
One of the things that they teach in just about any course that deals with life saving is empathy. I remember in my Bronze Cross and Medallion classes, the instructor would make us do empathy drills so that we could feel what it was like to be a drowning non-swimmer (pretty scary). In Engineering courses,…
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Themed podcasts – Teaching to those trapped in Traffic
This weekend, my wife’s car was vandalized while in the parkade underneath our condo, so I’ve been dropping her off to her car pool in the morning and then suffering the commute back to campus (living close to campus, I walk in), I was listening to the radio – across various stations and most of…