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Group 1: Final Blog Entry (Global Textbook)
How does your project leverage and create a richer learning experience for your specific target population? Our project, Global TextBook, allows students to engage in documented discussions where their responses, questions and answers can be calculated and well-planned. The online nature of the discussion forums and potentials for chat room interactions also allow for students [… Read More]
To LMS or not to LMS…
Moodle: First Impressions Moodle has a nicely structured platform and has my vote over Blackboard. In the Film Studies demo, I appreciated the emphasis on lesson sequence and the capacity to break each lesson/class into a separate page. The use of modules- particularly, quizzes and surveys -also helped to streamline the discussion process. [Note: I [… Read More]
Conflict Text
For Project #1: Integrating Curricula From Regions of Conflict, I don’t thing we’ve posted mutch on the class blog. Helen has started a Google group for us where we’ve been communicating about how to go about the project. We also met online last week in Second Life and Henry posted our minutes in our Google [… Read More]