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Permalink Reply by Sara Best on November 25, 2008 at 10:09am

Thanks for setting up this site. I am particularly interested in collaborating with others on strategies to encourage teachers who haven't bought into web 2.0 in the classroom or are interested, but don't know where to begin. How can we encourage, support, collaborate, with them? Could there be a group for this?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on November 25, 2008 at 11:37am

You might want to encourage discussion around the Open Source programs that provide Web 2.0 functionality within a school network (behind a "walled garden").

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Permalink Reply by Ron McDaniel on November 25, 2008 at 12:47pm

For me and maybe others:

Walled Garden

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Permalink Reply by Ron McDaniel on November 25, 2008 at 10:20am

Sara,

Perhaps you would be interested in starting the group. There seems to be an option to do this on the tabs under "Groups". I know that many of our teachers would be very interested in such a group.

Ron

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Permalink Reply by Sara Best on November 25, 2008 at 10:35am

I could give it a go...I've never started a group. Care to collaborate?

Ron McDaniel said:

Sara,

Perhaps you would be interested in starting the group. There seems to be an option to do this on the tabs under "Groups". I know that many of our teachers would be very interested in such a group.

Ron

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Permalink Reply by Tammy Moore on November 25, 2008 at 10:39am

I would love to see collaboration and training opportunities to help us to integrate graphics and interactivity into our courses and websites. I have seen so many Moodle courses in particular where the majority of the content is almost totally text-based. I think student's brains just shut down after even short stretches without graphics to illustrate the concept (or even just spice it up a bit) or interactives to let them try their hand at a concept.

If we pooled our knowledge of open source graphics programs (Gimp, Inkscape, Blender), web development, graphic design, and what open source Flash-alternatives there are out there, perhaps we can bring our course success up a notch.

I have an umlimited seat Elluminate classroom that we could use for discussions and training sessions (the application sharing tool will be ideal for seeing live software demonstrations).

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Permalink Reply by Ron McDaniel on November 25, 2008 at 10:46am

I haven't either:) But, I would definitely be interested in collaborating on this subject. I am in need of some ideas regarding teacher participation. That seems to be the biggest challenge that I am faced with in our system...

Sara Best said:

I could give it a go...I've never started a group. Care to collaborate?

Ron McDaniel said:

Sara,

Perhaps you would be interested in starting the group. There seems to be an option to do this on the tabs under "Groups". I know that many of our teachers would be very interested in such a group.

Ron

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Permalink Reply by Sara Best on November 25, 2008 at 10:57am

Great! Security in numbers. Just added "Web 2.0 for Beginners" group. Look forward to collaborating with you! Signing off for this evening, will check back tomorrow and see what we can do with the group.

Ron McDaniel said:

I haven't either:) But, I would definitely be interested in collaborating on this subject. I am in need of some ideas regarding teacher participation. That seems to be the biggest challenge that I am faced with in our system...

Sara Best said:

I could give it a go...I've never started a group. Care to collaborate?

Ron McDaniel said:

Sara,

Perhaps you would be interested in starting the group. There seems to be an option to do this on the tabs under "Groups". I know that many of our teachers would be very interested in such a group.

Ron

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Permalink Reply by Andrea Garbagnoli on June 10, 2009 at 12:10pm

The author of ToonTalk released a month ago the source code for free; now it needs a community which takes care of it and begins the porting to GNU/Linux and Mac.
Can someone help?

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