Stephen Ryan

Edubuntu released

This sounds interesting

Edubuntu is a flavour of the [WWW] Ubuntu operating system, which is optimised for classroom use. It has been developed in collaboration with teachers and technologists around the world. The aim of Edubuntu is that an educator with limited technical knowledge and skill should be able to set up a computer lab, or establish an on-line learning environment, in an hour or less, and then administer that environment without having to become a fully-fledged Linux geek. This is our first step towards that goal.

October 14th, 2005|Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|

BlackBoard takeover

Stephen Downes has harversted a lot of blog reaction to the takeover on one page. Very useful

Steve

October 14th, 2005|Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|

Sakai and moodle comparison

This link shows the Edutools sakai/Moodle comparison.

September 26th, 2005|Tools & Technologies|Comments Off|

Learning Design

For those with an interest in Learning Design:

Discussion of JIME special issue “Advances in Learning Design”

There will be an online chat this Wednesday afternoon (15h GMT) featuring authors of the JIME special issue on Learning Design .Articles in the JIME special issue relate to the chapters in the book and report on ways in which Learning Design has been applied and the tools and techniques that have been developed to support this approach to design for learning

How to participate
The discussion will be on Wednesday September the 28th at 16:00 CET (15:00 GMT), and it is open to everyone who is interested in the topic. The sessions typically run for 60-75 mins and participants will be able to pose questions about the articles and have the authors respond. The posing of questions and responses all happens via the UNFOLD chat interface, with replies being typed in ‘live’, under the moderation of one of the UNFOLD project team. The resulting transcript is then made available via the UNFOLD website.

A link and instructions for logging

September 26th, 2005|Teaching & Learning|Comments Off|

Report on Alti-lab

This article describes the use of various learning design tools and interoperability testing using WebCT.Moodle and Sakai. They are shown linking to various repositories, external tools etc. Well worth reading

September 5th, 2005|Uncategorized|2 Comments|