Monthly Archives: January 2008

“Those Who Can’t, Moodle: Avoiding the ‘Napoleon Plan’ for Technology in the Classroom”

These are blogged notes from my rough draft idea blog (http://blogs.opml.org/chrisjudson) that I used to present a concurrent session at the 2008 Indiana Computer Educator conference last week. Here’s the abstract:

Most of the successful transitions to moving instruction toward technology suggests a shift in pedagogy. Many times, incorporating technology into the classroom has amounted to the “Napoleon Plan” of decision making . Instead of merely putting up a static .html page with class rules, an assignment schedule, and perhaps some online quizzes, the effective online classroom makes use of the social aspect of the internet and structure and some would suggest moving toward a social constructivist approach to pedagogy.

School closings because it’s COLD!

Pogue Keynotes ICE 08…eh.

The annual Indiana Computer Educators (ICE) conference in Indianapolis was held last week and the thing I was sort of looking forward to was David Pogue’s keynote Friday. His topic was “The Digital Generation Comes of Age” and so I got a good seat in the back center row. Like others, my main exposure to [...]

Coffee Stains: I’m _So_ Gay

Or at least that’s what a student said I was.
The student wasn’t too happy with an answer I gave to a request and then in the next few minutes used her creative energies to pull a picture of me off the school’s web directory into a MS Word(r) document and write in a 24-point bold [...]

Utterz: Point A to Point B car

StarBX run

Consolidating webspace

bashing education is no longer…well, as far as a separate site, I’ve just deleted the wordpress.com blog and moved all the entries over here to vergilscoffee.com. (And, perhaps, you can imagine why).
My hopes for bashing education will still live and I figure that instead of having special sites for special topics really doesn’t make too [...]

Setting up DesktopBSD in the Basement

Save Big Money at Menards!

Sledding fun

Times of being a kid are great.