Stuff about using computers to help people teach and learn better.

Ideas

Ideas for projects or studies that might be worth considering.

SITE 2006

Posted Tue, 2005-08-16 14:37 by pfaffman

SITE 2006 is March 20-24 in Orlando. Proposals are due October 18, 2005.

Creating Interactive forms with ooWriter

Posted Thu, 2005-08-11 09:30 by pfaffman

This looks pretty cool. An interesting project might be to create an interactive form for a lesson plan, for example. In particular, TSD has one that's a word document & it's a real drag to fill out in ooWriter. A slick form in ooWriter could help move the school to OOo instead of a 5 year old version of another popular office suite.

Innovate: Special issue on instructional gaming

Posted Wed, 2005-08-10 16:45 by pfaffman

Innovate's current issue is about how games can affect education. There are a number of articles that look interesting, none of which I have read. One is by Gee, who wrote a book called "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy." There's another article about simSchool that also sounds very interesting. If you read them, let me know. I found this over at sunsite.utk.edu.

Check out Mambo

Posted Wed, 2005-08-10 15:15 by pfaffman

Mambo is another Content Management system. See whether it makes sense as a way to create teacher/school web sites.

How to evaluate a content management system

Posted Tue, 2005-08-09 14:12 by pfaffman

How to evaluate a content management system looks like a good thing to read to understand CMS's.

Drupal Howto

Posted Tue, 2005-08-02 16:19 by pfaffman

Create a manual for teachers/school administrators who want to use Drupal. This could end up being part of an "Essential Open Source Software for Educators" book.

Drupal Theme/config for schools

Posted Tue, 2005-08-02 16:16 by pfaffman

Create a Drupal theme and configuration for a school. You'd probably add flexinode content types for teachers, announcements, sporting events. Stuff like that. I'll probably be doing a Drupal presentation at TETC this fall. It'd be great to have a good starting place for teachers/schools that want to use Drupal.