Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley May 2010 Issue April 1, 2010 Capturing Memories: Comparing Photo Printers Every spring my wife and I head out in the…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Technology
I still dislike the “pop-up” or “list” method for entering grades in Moodle. I could enter digits much faster; I hate being forced to use…
I went back to requiring weekly responses to readings and lectures after two semesters without the requirement. I know students always complained about weekly responses…
I have experienced two issues with Moodle that annoy me. One is inconvenient, the other is truly frustrating. The inconvenience doesn’t surprise me: the full-featured…
Students have submitted their first assignments via Moodle and are starting to use the Moodle-based Wiki system for group projects. I have a lot of…
Moodle is definitely proving to be more flexible and, sometimes, more efficient than Blackboard. I created five groups for class today in under 15 minutes,…
This semester I am using Moodle for online course content, after six years of Blackboard use (including WebCT, WebVista). I thought I’d chronicle my experiences;…
Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley February 2010 Issue December 29, 2009 Words on a Screen: E-Books are the Future Amazon’s Kindle is now the best-selling product…
Visalia Direct: Virtual Valley January 2010 Issue November 26, 2009 Peering into My Crystal Ball My crystal ball was recently upgraded to organic light-emitting diode…
In the last few days my wife and I have fought Blogger and SurveyMonkey. For two applications that are used by a lot of people,…