E- learning Toolkit – Accessibility Instructions: Take a look at your LMS (Vista or Moodle) site, including images, multimedia, links, tables and frame. Check the “Quick Tips” on WAI and check your work at Markup Validation Service.  See updated Web Accessibility Quick Tips based on WCAG 2 at a glance. What did you find? How […]

Social Software E-learning Toolkit Reflection For this E-learning Toolkit Activity, I have decided to focus on four Social Software sites that I use personally.  The main sites that I use most frequently are Delicious and Twitter, and I have explored Digg and Flickr. 1.  Who “owns” materials posted by members? Delicious By posting content, you […]

E-learning Toolkit:  Audio For this E-learning toolkit activity, I used Audacity to record 10 .mp3 files that I have uploaded to my moodle course.  The purpose of these voice recordings is to have audio support for the reading component of the course; the descriptions of the Milky Way, the Sun and the planets.  In each […]

E-learning Toolkit: Using Picasa For this E-learning toolkit activity, I chose a photo of a lily that I took at Grotto Canyon, close to Canmore, Alberta.  I followed the instructions in the activity pretty much step-by-step and as such, found the usability of Picasa to be intuitive.  On the left is my original photo, in […]

E-learing toolkit:  Weblogs We have been discussing Weblogs in much detail over the past week or so in ETEC 565, which has led me to this toolkit activity.  I’ve spent the greater part of this afternoon browsing through some educational blogs which has been interesting and has led me to discover many articles, video clips, […]

The following post is also posted on the Communication Tools page. Activity: Exploring Communication Tools in Moodle My LMS, in Moodle, is designed for grade one French Immersion students who will be using the LMS to support their classroom learning.  It should be noted that I intend to use my LMS with the SMART Board […]

The following reflection is in relation to the Wikis E-learning Toolkit Activity. In December 2008, I introduced the concept of a wiki (using pbworks) to the parent community of my grade one classroom.  The wiki is called “Oasis of Learning“.  The main purpose of the wiki is to communicate with a very active volunteer base.  […]

This is fun!  Using Moodle, that is.  I just completed my first activity in the ETEC 565A E-Learning Toolkit.  Here is the link to the Moodle page of the Toolkit.  As you know, I teach Grade One French Immersion.  I have decided to design my course around literacy, learning how to read and write using […]