Moodle …the hidden cost of Ownership

The Hidden cost of Moodle use is more than other LMS providers in the New Zealand market ……….YEAH RIGHT!!
Recently the Ministry MLE roadshow visited Tauranga and I had some calls from local teachers who attended asking about the hidden cost of running Moodle in a school as it was indicated that running Moodle could be [...]

#lats09

Well so far Kelvin has made it to Learning @ School. I will be there Tomorrow for our Breakout in Session 6 on Moodle. Our group will be given a logon (this is their firstinitialsurname and firstname as password) to the Tek Moodle site so they can have a play around and add courses, work [...]

Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students

Being a long weekend I have finished a few books and one of the ones I should have blogged about a while ago is “Doing School”. I brought this book from Amazon after having listened to the author on itunesU. The basic premise of the book is that the author followed five successful students [...]

iLearn and Issuu.com

TUAW linked to iLearn today which looks an interesting publication. Most interesting though was the method it is published on Issuu.com. There are a large number of e zines here but all online rather than the zinio redaer I used to have on my tablet PC. Which I see offers all kinds of magazines for download. Hmm [...]

Time4Innovation Conference

This years Time4 conference is now in its second week so pop along for a look at some of the content and of course our presentation over the BBQ.

Learning to change

I always love finding new videos that just say how I feel so thanks to Rich White I found this one.

Okay twas good

So we have been attending the exe workshop at Auckland Grammar today. I guess we had initial skepticism as to the value of the tool but I’m now happily creating quizzes and integrating rich content into Moodle effortlessly. While it can look tricky at first once you have got your head around the importing and [...]

Professional Development on the go

For the last six months I have been a podcast addict. It started by downloading BBC radio shows which reminded me of home and now I download at least 10 podcasts per week. The best podcasts are those which are made by professionals, unlike our amateur offerings (have to start somewhere), and my [...]