Recently here at Tek_ we have been toying with a few new ideas. I guess we call them Tek_Labs some of these are just a bit of fun others have had some good outcomes that we can then try at school. The latest have been:

Gallery2 – php gallery site that allows you to have a flickr like service of your own, it also has a wordpressplugin.

PHPAuction – Kind of like e-bay, not sure how we would integrate this with school but maybe as a fundraiser or for economics classes.

And then there is Tek_Net – our own moodle site which has some of our own teaching resources and allows me to trial out new ideas as far as moodle blocks goes.

Today I just added the Game moodle block and have been really impressed as it uses our existing quiz questions and allows you to make a number of different style quizzes (thanks to the moodleman for this and of course Sharon for pointing it out :-) ) I have started putting links to these blocks in the tek wiki to try and remember what a I have customised. Feel free to check it out and see what we have been adding outside the standard moodle install.