Category: Communication

  • Mar 13, 2009

    Cell Phones in Education

    http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2009/03/making-case-for-cell-phones-in-schools.html Thinking about this and google apps integration it dawns on me that we can create a domain for student emails with google for free. Then we’d be able to utilize calendaring functions on the phones along with a teachers google calendar they’ve set up for assignments. For those heavily using moodle a calendar extracts […]

  • Mar 13, 2009

    Google Apps Training

    http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews/welcome/topicWelcome/index.html

  • Mar 9, 2009

    SADE

    Student Achievement Data Extract Elluminate recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/mr.jnlp?suid=M.FC9CDE826C371A1EC4613B02FE2233 Notes from BCeSIS Learning Event All 8-12 schools to report does not replace TRAX, just reporting on achievement data 4 times per year, districts can control own submission and release time 31 day submission window to submit data separate extract file for each school 1.create extract, 2 generate […]

  • Mar 2, 2009

    New Elementary Moodle Server

    We are currently working on a new elementary moodle server. This will allow us to upgrade the moodle version, and use a different server that will easily allow us to virtualize it in the future. Virtualization of the server will let us throttle the processor, memory, and disk space and allow for easy scalability as […]

  • Feb 23, 2009

    Six Ways to Make Web 2.0 Work

    Read the full article at http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Business_Technology/Application_Management/Six_ways_to_make_Web_20_work_2294 1. The transformation to a bottom-up culture needs help from the top. 2. The best uses come from users—but they require help to scale. 3. What’s in the workflow is what gets used. 4. Appeal to the participants’ egos and needs—not just their wallets. 5. The right solution comes […]

  • Feb 11, 2009

    Supersized Emails and what they do to your network

    We had a problem today at a school where the out traffic was spiking regularly and internet connections were terrible. After lots of looking a packet capture showed that one IP was hitting port 25 (SMTP) over and over again. Didn’t make much sense so we tracked down the machine and found that there was […]

  • Feb 3, 2009

    Link to a file or Display a directory in Moodle

    Link to Files or Display a Directory in Moodle The above link shows you how to link to files you have already uploaded in moodle as well as how to display an entire directory of your files.

  • Feb 3, 2009

    How to Upload Files in Moodle

    How to Upload Files in Moodle The video above shows you how to upload files such as documents, audio, or video into your moodle course.