This blog has moved to a new site:  Techniques in New Teaching http://educationaltechnologist21c.wordpress.com/ I do hope you’ll join me in my new home and continue exploring educational technology with me.  

It’s taking me a while, but my perspective on social media is slowly shifting.  Admittedly, I was a late-comer to the scene, and I joined Twitter and Facebook not from the perspective of a musicology instructor, but from the perspective of a dog breeder and trainer.  When one of my white German Shepherds was expecting […]

The more I use wikis, the more excited I get about this whole notion of social media in education.  I think of social media as spaces like Facebook and MySpace.  But Bryan Alexander points out that social media goes beyond that to include blogging, of which I’m a big fan, and wikis. I love wikis […]

Boris teaches chemistry at a high school in Canada.  He’s been using the school’s Moodle server to disseminate class notes, lab sheets etc to his students.  He’s found that there’s a disconnect between students’ performance in lab and their examinations, especially where the periodic table is concerned.  For those of you who are NOT science […]

KISS.  That’s my mantra for finding suitable programs to facilitate synchronous communication for my moodle site. I am searching for an open source synchronous communication package to use for my Moodle course.  I have experience using Skype, for my own graduate studies, and for my personal communication with family and friends.  I like Skype.  It’s […]

Okay, after a week of skirting Moodle, and occasionally dipping my toes into this LMS, I decided to take the full plunge:  I decided to fill in some of the place holders that I’d already created.  I decided to learn HTML and practice it by writing my course syllabus.  What a labor-intensive job!  I learned the code […]

Perhaps now is the time, as we begin the second decade of the 21st century, to consistently explore and exploit Moodle’s many affordances to effectively support active learning among students in ways that engage their creativity and intellect, while at the same time bring the “fun” back into learning

I am new to this course, and I must confess that I’m a bit anxious.  What I learn here I know will revolutionize the way that teach, and it will affect the teaching at my college