On-line+Learning+Envrionments


 * Companies to Consider**


 * 1) Educational Networks
 * 2) SchoolCenter
 * 3) Russell Sonneborn--e-mail-- [|russell.sonneborn@thinqed.com]
 * 4) Moodle rooms-
 * 5) Haiku []
 * 6) e-mail
 * 7) desire2learn
 * 8) Christie Higgins--e-mail--info@desire2learn.com
 * 9) 720-560-5778
 * 10) edline
 * 11) 1-800-490-0010
 * 12) Ning
 * 13) Sakai
 * 14) Infinite Campus
 * 15) school fusion
 * 16) Brian Damman--e-mail-- bdamman@schoolfusion.com
 * 17) 800-906-0911
 * 18) finalsite
 * 19) e-mail--education@finalsite.com
 * 20) 800-592-2469
 * 21) elluminate
 * 22) Natasha Stel--e-mail--[|natashas@elluminate.com]
 * 23) [|blackboard]
 * 24) e-mail--[blackboard@blackboard.com

__**What do we want the online learning environment to do?**__ 1. A place for teacher web presence that is user friendly. 2. Online calendars for the teacher web pages. 3. online quiz capability uploading from current test generators graded for you entered into our grade book for us 4. Forums threaded discussions 5. blogs 6. working with voice students can call in and their conversation is recorded and saved on the site students call in a record what they are playing on their instrument or sing 7. capability to upload a variety of types of "documents" office documents, video, podcasts, pictures, sound files, java files, alice files, finale documents, etc. upload more than one document at a time delete more than one document at a time 8. when editing a file and re-uploading, the file name can be the same and it will overwrite and post correctly. 9. password protected 10. students log in once and can access all teachers at one at vis. 11. real time chat between teacher and students 12. e-mail students in the class. students get e-mailed when important pieces of the teacher page are updated 13. ability for students to turn in papers something like turn-it in.com 14. the uploads and web page set-up work with office--copy/paste? 15. ability for students to create online portfolios 16. the teacher has the ability to create multiple page for students travel via links 17. can students log in and have a calendar of their events based on the classes they are in? 18. uniform format--looks like the rest of our webpage and each teacher page has a similar look 19. ability to create surveys and track the results 20. interact with google docs 21. cost 22. tech help 23. offer a webinar


 * Info on Moodle**

Find the podcast online

(my notes appear here @http://bit.ly/9h67Y6 and a bit on the special ed piece (my quick notes) @http://www.mguhlin.org/2010/07/conversation-snippet-moodle-and-special.html

As a result of the in-depth podcast, we've decided to do another interview with Julian this coming Sunday. If you have questions about using Moodle--you know, those tough practitioner questions--then I encourage you to email them to either Diana Benner (diana.benner@gmail.com) or I ( mguhlin@gmail.com). We'd love to play "Stump the Moodleman" so....
 * SHARE YOUR QUESTIONS FOR JULIAN'S 2nd PODCAST INTERVIEW*

This Saturday, Diana and I will be discussing the vision of Moodle Mayhem online via Elluminate (ah the irony). Find out how to participate here: @http://www.mguhlin.org/2010/07/moodle-mayhem-on-classroom-20-live.html
 * CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE*

In addition, I'd like to extend a warm invitation to all educators who use Moodle to join the Moodle Mayhem email group. The focus of Moodle Mayhem is about building capacity among educators, vendors aren't allowed (sorry!). You can also share your Moodle courses--and find some that have already been shared--online in the Moodle Mayhem wiki at @http://bit.ly/moodlemayhem The group is about 140+ strong and growing.
 * SHARE YOUR MOODLE COURSES*

Some tips for crafting effective elearning environments appear in a slideshow here...feel free to share your own: @http://www.mguhlin.org/2010/07/tips-for-crafting-effective-elearning.html
 * MOODLE TIPS*

TEXAS MOODLEMOOT in AUSTIN And, for those of you near Austin, Texas, you may want to attend the August 1-3 MoodleMoot with Martin Dougiamas (sp?), Moodle creator, in attendance. More info online at: @http://www.moot-us.com/