Tag Archives: remote-learner

Understanding Open Source

Posted on 05/26/2012 by William Stites

I am a big advo­cate of open source soft­ware.  We’ve used it at our school for a num­ber of years.  Our fire­wall is an appli­ance called Untan­gle. We use open source soft­ware in the class­room includ­ing tools like Open Office … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Moodle and Blackboard… I’m not worried.

Posted on 03/28/2012 by William Stites

There is a lot of talk out there right now about the fact the Black­board has pur­chased both Moodle­rooms and NetSpot.  There are numer­ous blog post about it, includ­ing Remote-Learners response (Black­board Buys 2 Lead­ing Sup­port­ers of Open-Source Com­peti­tor Moo­dle - … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Moving to Moodle 2.0: Pt.1 The Decision

Posted on 06/10/2011 by William Stites

It wasn’t easy and came with a lot of inves­ti­ga­tion, thought and dis­cus­sions, but we’ve decided to make the move to Moo­dle 2.0 this sum­mer (2011). We have had a num­ber of our teach­ers, stu­dents and tech staff play­ing with Moo­dle … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Moodle: How big is big?

Posted on 04/19/2011 by William Stites

We’ve been using Moo­dle at my school for years and it’s a real work­horse for us. Moo­dle is used in class­rooms K-12, for com­mit­tees, clubs, activ­i­ties and for numer­ous other school needs. As we are pre­pare for an upgrade to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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