Posts Tagged ‘ Moodle ’

Preparing for the worst = opportunity

September 21, 2009
Preparing for the worst = opportunity

0There is more than one way to get a school to start looking at online learning as a way to reach students. As an international educator, I have found no greater motivation to get the conversation started around online learning than planning for the worst…..school closure. In 2003 it was the attacks on the compound...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Int. Education | 17 Comments »

First quarter reflection

October 12, 2008
First quarter reflection

0Friday marked the end to the first quarter of the school year at ISB. As my first quarter here comes to a close I’ve started to reflect on the experience so far. There is a reason why international schools make you sign a two year contract. It takes at least a year to get your...
Read more »

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Random Thoughts | 7 Comments »

A Week of Just In Time Learning

May 11, 2007
A Week of Just In Time Learning

0There is nothing like starting your week off with an e-mail from a teacher that simple says: “Moodle is not working…do you know why?” And then spending the next four days worried that you can’t fix it. It has been one of those weeks that I’ve relied on ‘just in time learning’ and my network of...
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

Moodle, Twitter, and networks

May 9, 2007

0I feel sorry really for the 52 people that follow me on Twitter. Sometime Monday our Moodle installation decided that all the users are on a different server and it won’t allow anyone to login. I’ve been twitting it since I started working on the problem 24 hours ago now. It’s been a great...
Read more »

Tags: ,
Posted in Random Thoughts | 1 Comment »

Looking for Dedication

March 7, 2007
Looking for Dedication

0So what happens when you put 1200+ Moodle Users in 88 courses and 560+ WordPress blogs all on the same shared hosting server? You exceed your CPU usage. We have been getting this warning for a couple of months now, but as we continue to add more blogs and users in Moodle, it’s happening more...
Read more »

Tags: , ,
Posted in Random Thoughts | 5 Comments »

Enough with Elgg moving to WordPress MU

December 6, 2006

0So in about mid October I installed our own installation of Elgg. I did it for two reasons: 1. It integrated with Moodle which we already use. That way if a student had an account in Moodle already, they could us the same username and login to get started using Elgg. The two would be...
Read more »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Random Thoughts | 11 Comments »

Learning from the kids

November 22, 2006

0I came home tonight looking forward to going through my aggregator and getting some other stuff online done. But I made the mistake of stopping by some of the online projects going on around the school. Needless to say my learning tonight came from a bunch of middle school students. I’ve spent the last...
Read more »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Random Thoughts | 1 Comment »