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Georgia Virtual School shares full digital units for free online

The Georgia Virtual School, a statewide virtual school, has started a process of sharing out course units to the open Internet for use by others. The objects are created in SoftChalk, one of my preferred tools for creating course objects that are universal to learning and content management systems. Although I have only initially looked

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At #VSS2011 this week with dreams of live blogging… :)

Published on November 9, 2011 by in vss

I am at the Virtual Schooling Symposium 2011 in lovely Indianapolis, Indiana.  Although it is easy to send snarky comments about vendors in Twitter (@techsavvyteach), I will be live blogging interesting sessions here.  Yay!

 
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Our future vision hasn’t changed much…

Published on October 27, 2011 by in snark

The team at Microsoft Office has released a video called “Productivity Future Vision.”  Apparently the future looks a lot like the Windows Phone interface and has a lot of weird white spaces in it: As interesting as this is, I was reminded of a video that I shared with students a couple of years ago:

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First Looks: Moodle App for iOS

Moodle Must Move Mobile I had a conversation this week with a teacher in my former school district that works with middle school gifted and talented students.  She has been working hard to use Moodle as a supplement in her classroom, but is frustrated that her students are not using it like she expected.  A

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Magazines: lead textbook publishers to greatness!

As tablet computing continues to push the media revolution, traditional publishers are waking up to the fact that times have changed.  It is probably no surprise, however, that the publishers that have always understood their market are making this transition much more smoothly than those that don’t get it. Case-in-point: some long-time magazine publishers are

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