moodle – Aaron Metz

Musings for December 2013

Moodle 2.6 I’ve been testing this release in our sandbox environment are are impressed so far with the improvements to the graphical user interface (less is more), ability to annotate PDF file submissions, new single activity course format and tweaked administrative tools for quick course creation and management. DoubleDayz Our first edtech professional development for […]

Musings for December 2013metzy2013-12-21T01:25:04+08:00

Powerful Project-Based Learning with Evernote

How do you effectively follow the learning journey of 136 students working on a 5 week long project? Moreover, how can you quickly verify they are locating credible sources of information, synthesising this information and then using it to create original work? These are challenges I face on a recurring basis as a coordinator of […]

Powerful Project-Based Learning with Evernotemetzy2013-07-13T17:42:03+08:00

Tales from the 21st Century Learning Conference 2013

Better Blended Learning with Moodle This was the title of my own session and now writing this post I feel it was a good opportunity for me to reflect on the technical and professional learning progress we have made with Moodle over the last four years. As a community we have a lot to be […]

Tales from the 21st Century Learning Conference 2013metzy2013-01-30T10:35:02+08:00

Cloud Powered Conference Planning

by mansikka Have you ever coordinated a fairly large event that required collaboration with stakeholders in another country? This was my most recent challenge getting the first Hong Kong Moodle Moot off the ground and in this post I’d like to share with you my top tips for effective use of cloud-based services to […]

Cloud Powered Conference Planningmetzy2012-10-04T22:07:31+08:00

A Stone in the Pond

Back in 2005 I asked one of my computer programming students to investigate some tools we could use for the school intranet and could evaluated as part of my post-graduate action research. Sheung-Man came to class a couple of days later and declared: “I found this teacher tool that looks like it would be easy […]

A Stone in the Pondmetzy2012-09-16T21:44:08+08:00

My Former ‘CommTech’ Students

I have been meaning to ‘reclaim’ this domain for my own professional sharing and have finally found the time to make a start. If you’re a former CommTech student of mine from the Canadian International School of Hong Kong, the Moodle course you are looking for has been migrated to http://lms.cdnis.edu.hk. Your accounts are still […]

My Former ‘CommTech’ Studentsmetzy2009-10-01T18:47:31+08:00

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