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Joe, et. al. I have been using turnitin.com, best known for plagiarism prevention, for on-line discussions with my classes. Somewhat successfully, I might add. But I am wondering if any tech savvy can tell us which would be best for on-line discussions and a pseudo social networking activity (with 100+ historical characters) I do: turnitin, Moodle, Google Apps, Ning, or something else? Thanks, Jeremy Greene U.S. and World History Teacher Key Club Advisor Chelmsford High School Chelmsford, MA 01863 p.s. Joe, I predict a FHS Turkey Day victory this year over KP. FHS '89 Editor's Note: I never make book on inter-school football rivalries, regardless of the invitation to do so by an alumnus of the rival school. That being stated, GO WARRIORS! > Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:40:13 -0400 > From: Joseph Ferreira <ferreiraj@KINGPHILIP.ORG> > Subject: Teaching with Technology: Moodle > > My school district is experimenting with introducing Moodle, an open > source version of Blackboard or WebCT, into our classrooms. I am one > of the trial teachers who has begun posting assignments, links, wikis > and the like. I am curious about a few questions I'd like others to > comment on: > > 1. If you use Moodle or other similar programs, how have you made it a > part of your regular teaching? Is it a replacement for maintaining > your own class Web pages or is it something more? > > 2. Has the use of such software changed the way you teach or the way > you manage your classroom? If so, how? If not, why not? > > 3. Has your on-line management software been widely adopted by your > colleagues? Has the response been more limited? If you were an "early > adopter," were you part of a team to introduce it to colleagues and > were you sucessful in helping them understand it's benefits? How did > you handle peer resistance or even student/parent resistance to using > the program? > > As we are in the beginning phases of this trial, I am hoping to have an > on-going discussion about this as we experiement with more features > and begin introducing the software to more of the faculty. I am > therefore interested in sharing any posts here with the poers that be > in our administration and technology departments, so the more detailed > your responses, the better. As I am attending a conference in > Massachusetts for computer-using educators next week, I hope to post > some of what I learn here for further discussion. > > -- > Joseph J. Ferreira, Jr. > Co-Editor, H-High-S > King Philip Regional High School > 201 Franklin Street > Wrentham, MA 02093-2404 > Web site: http://www.kingphilip.org/faculty/ferreiraj/public_web/index.htm > E-mail: ferreiraj@kingphilip.org > > "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's > too dark to read." Groucho Marx
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