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Web 2.0 Strategies for Education

4/7/2010

Focus

The Changing Role of Instructors Moving from Facilitation to Constructive Partnerships
As we move toward more interactive media, continuous real-time networks and dynamic learning communities, bolder and media-rich exchanges of content, and increased opportunities for self-authoring, the role of the instructor is challenged again. The challenge this time is that facilitation is not enough--the challenge for the future of instruction is that we stand side-by-side with our students and all contribute equally and actively to a learning community.
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News

Microsoft Plugin Connects Office to Moodle
Microsoft has released a new plugin that lets Office users connect directly with the open source learning management system Moodle.
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Indiana Virtual Public School To Serve Elementary Students
Elementary and middle school students in Indiana will have an online alternative beginning in the 2010-2011 school year.
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Clarkstown Central Sets Up Online File Storage for Students
Clarkstown Central School District has gone public with its use of a service that allows students, teachers, and administrators to save files in a personal area online and share them with others on the Web.
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DyKnow Expands Collaborative Tools
DyKnow has released an update to its DyKnow Software Suite. The new 5.3 release, which debuted this month, adds new Web 2.0 capabilities and new tools for classroom interaction.
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Humble ISD To Implement Web Platform for Collaboration and Social Networking
Humble Independent School District in Texas will be implementing a service from Schoolwires to manage content on its Web site and provide social networking and collaboration tools for its community of teachers, administrators, parents, and students.
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joule 1.1 Gets New Chat, Forum Tools
Moodlerooms has released an update to joule, its learning management system based on the open source Moodle platform. The latest release, version 1.1, expands support for chat and adds new forum features and enhanced administration.
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Moodle Connects with Adobe Acrobat Connect
Open source learning management system Moodle is gaining additional Web conferencing capabilities thanks to a new open source plugin from Remote-Learner that integrates the LMS with the Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro service.
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North Carolina District Pilots Cloud Computing Platform
Wilson County Schools (WCS) of Wilson, NC, has announced its participation in a pilot program with Glide Education Corp. (GEC) that will provide the district an extensive set of Web 2.0 productivity and communications tools, as well as secure file storage, in a cloud computing environment.
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PBS and Penn State To Bring Digital Media to Schools Throughout Pennsylvania
PBS and WPSU, the network affiliate operated by Penn State University, in partnership with the PA Department of Education, will be bringing the Digital Learning Library (DLL) to classrooms throughout the state.
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Realityworks Teaches Business Ed with Online Simulation Games
A company that made its mark in developing education products for substance abuse and social services, among other topics, has turned its attention to business education for high school students.
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AMD Foots Bill for Gaming Workshop for Teachers
AMD is sponsoring a day-long game design workshop this May for teachers at an annual game conference. The chip maker's foundation is awarding a $100,000 grant to fund the workshop during Games for Change, which is hosted in New York by Parsons The New School for Design and the Games for Learning Institute at New York University.
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