On the night of Mar 16, the site I am working on crashed. On the night of Mar 17th, I backed up all local and remote website files in the folder of “firstversion” and then reinstalled Drupal, in the hope … Continue reading
The SLIDER project I currently work on may want to publish their curriculum as an “eBOOK”. However, what my customer wants seem more than just a regular eBook like those you see on kindle or nook. What is the difference … Continue reading
Open Badges and their use for online informal or formal learning have been explored for a while. But it is not easy to hand-bake a badge and issue it manually. I tried to manually create one based on the instruction … Continue reading
Many of us have met this situation before: you find a wonderful picture from the Internet, and it is perfect for the presentation you are preparing for, or for the online course that you are conducting. However, you couldn’t find … Continue reading
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Yesterday afternoon, I just suddenly thought that I should figure out a way to host a virtual conference room on my Moodle server (http://moodle.varvoo.com). So I started to search on moodle.org for downloadable modules and plugins. First I tried the … Continue reading
I am helping with evaluating these applications from k-12 schools of GA. This process teaches me a lot. I know what this type of application should look like now. I know how different those application proposals could be when they … Continue reading
I am rereading the book of Educative Assessment: DesigningAssessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance by Wiggins, Grant. P. He is talking about the difference between a traditional unauthentic assessment and an assessment for a real world. One of the biggest differences … Continue reading
I just finished reading Dr. Helen Barrett and Joanne Carney’s paper of Conflicting Paradigms and Competing Purposes in Electornic Portfolio Development. It is really a good paper for me because it answered many of my questions. I have been always wondering why … Continue reading