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Hi robin: Yes - different platforms is indeed a problem. I can go through the list of the various systems and tell you which ones work with one or the other... but to keep things simple for you.... If you want voice and nothing much more then I recommend http://skype.com If you want a room that has a whiteboard, ability to show a website etc. you can
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hello fcccapit! Your questions are really interesting, simply because they are extremely important ones that affect our day to day teaching lives. The second one is the easiest to answer and so I will do this first. I highly recommend TappedIn The community hops! It has events going on all the time in every K-12 subject area including art and physical
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hello and welcome! um - on our server we have installed an open source program called mailmain (i think that the link is: http://wwww.mailman.org ) It permits us to send to at least 700 people at once. i notice with my spam prevention software that the only time the message is identified as spam is when the subject header includes an ampersand. However
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Bill Bruck writes: Just to note, I'm so confused and lost trying to navigate within this software that I really cannot particpate effectively [/] Susan Tenby writes I think we got all of your questions answered, over in the Feedback Forum Just to comment that Susan has expemplified best practices here in Tech Soup with her comment to Bill. Those
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Bomba writes: I am having trouble creating the "lessons" component in an attractive way. When I type in content and it is then displayed, it looks funny and I can't arrange it the way I want. Any hints on how to do that? If you go to http://moodle.org there are many different tutorials and "books" that you can read which will help you. There are
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Burgess Smith writes... I'm particularly interested in your expertise at decision-making and organizational planning online okay! well, we use the online world (synch and aysnch communication) to plan many different activities. if you can ask us a specific question... eg: how do we... I'll leap in with something wise You see we live here - so
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Burgess Smith writes I'd love to know, for instance, what success everyone has had in reaching group decisions asynchronously, for organizational planning purpose. Wow - great question burgess! We have huge success using asynch! With our first course at knowplace, we throw our folks into this decision process in asynch. Something simple - like when
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Sue O Connor writes The problems I am encountering relate to the lack of a sense of engagement by many of the students. They are slow to participate, and as a result other students who are enthused by the project are left waiting for responses. Should the tutorial staff and I 'step in' and participate in the discussion? I am loathe to do so
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Burgess Smith writes: Is anyone using tools such as polls, surveys, etc. as methods for moving discussions toward results? Sure! We use everything we can to move the discussions forward. People learn in different ways so we believe that you have to use any and all tools to move things forward. Personally I prefer the polls or surveys that show who voted
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yes - moodle is open source which means that a programmer can manipulate the code. Open source also means that it is free to download, install and use. There are other open source learning management systems, but this one is the most robust and has the largest community of people helping to improve it.