Learn By Doing

A Lifelong Learner Shares Thoughts About Education

Author: John Walker

  • Moodle Moves to the Top

    For the second consecutive year, the eLearning Guild survey, which measures use of over 100 professionally-developed LMS products and excludes in-house created sys­tems, shows that Moodle™ is ranked as the #1 LMS product among eLearning Guild members with over 24% of respondents selecting it as their primary LMS. Read the full article here on Learning…

  • Google Apps Speeds Knowledge Sharing

    One of the items which slowed posts this month is our school implementing Google Apps across most of our departments.  We provided each of our an account and the stories of actual changes are amazing, encouraging, and worthy. A recent development trying to implement a new electronic grading system with no training left us unable…

  • Screencasts and Twitter Inside My Classroom

    Screencasting just got a whole lot easier and more powerful with Screenr.  I have to add a disclaimer here, I love, absolutely love the complete package Camtasia Studio from Tech-Smith and last year my class all used Jing for an assignment to publish on their blog.  But for quick one run through knock offs, from…

  • Note Taking Upgrade

    I only took the one class this summer and it was a lot of fun.  I was nominated to give a class this Fall to a conference and will try to be able to be there.  The focus of that talk is to be using Technology to Teach Technology.  A subset of the overall issues…

  • Workflow to Catch or Stay Up with Videos

    I know, there are so many great resources to read, or watch, or learn about, where to start. Let me tell you about my workflow to catch or stay up with videos about Technology and Media.  First find a great web site that has a long list of videos that someone has a clear purpose…