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Top issues you will face when developing your own Learning Management System

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Moodle Instead of building a custom system from scratch, you might think why not take up Moodle and deploy it on a server? Moodle is the perfect example of how you can make a learning management system ugly. Moodle is a complicated behemoth. Your students will have trouble accessing the content.

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Top issues you will face when developing your own Learning Management System

Testpress

Moodle Instead of building a custom system from scratch, you might think why not take up Moodle and deploy it on a server? Moodle is the perfect example of how you can make a learning management system ugly. Moodle is a complicated behemoth. Your students will have trouble accessing the content.

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Snow Day? 7 Ways to Keep Teaching

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Pascack Valley Regional High School District in northern New Jersey makes available lesson plans and assignments that can be accessed from home, on the Internet: Before the snow fell, teachers were prepped, parents were warned and students had received enough assignments to fill a snow day. Google Hangouts.

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Videos: Why, How, Options

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R (Redefinition): Redefine your lesson plan by allowing students to access videos that explore their particular interest in a topic; encourage students to engage in higher-order thinking by creating a video that shares their thinking on the lesson’s essential question. Touchcast Studio.

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Looking Back At 2011 And Looking Forward To 2012

The Web20Classroom

One of the most useful examples I saw this year was at a Moodle conference where in the digital conference guide was a QR next to each session. I wrote several posts about my favorite places to find information about iPads in education or my favorite iPad/Android apps for Administrators. Look at my district. 57,000 students.

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WHAT’S NEW

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BLACKBOARD AND READSPEAKER ( www.blackboard.com ) & ( www.readspeaker.com ) Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve course content accessibility. This allows students to automatically access an MP3 version of content added by the instructor into the LMS.

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What the flip?

Learning with 'e's

What happens to all those students who cannot afford or access the technology they need to participate in this kind of learning? One very useful piece of information in the Wired article is the mention of the British Open University and their work around using online learning platforms such as Moodle to support their distance learners.