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We are rubbing elbows with teachers at TechEd 2010.  Throughout the conference we’ve met with faculty, support staff and administrators all looking for new tools to engage their learners.  There is a very strong interest in screencast tools and techniques here at the conference.  If you are interested in learning to produce your own screencasts, check out a site we put together for the faculty at Art Center College of Design that was designed to teach faculty how to screencast from a Mac.  The site is posted at: http://www.technologyofeducation.com.

To experience some excellent screencasts, click here for a FREE 24 hr pass to the Lynda.com Online Training Library.

The DVD version of my lynda.com title Moodle Essential Training for Teachers is now available for sale on Amazon.com. When you buy the disk you also get the Moodle Essential Training for Students video training title included as an added bonus. Order your copy today!

$49.95 at Amazon.com

Have you already watched the title? Please go to Amazon.com and write a review of your experience.

Moodle provides students with a rich environment of information, resources, and activities to enhance what is being taught in the classroom. In Moodle Essential Training for Students, Chris Mattia walks step by step through a typical Moodle course and shows students how to be successful. Chris shows how to post materials to a custom database, participate in a live chat with other students, and even access and complete assignments online.

Moodle Essential Training for Students

Reposting from lynda.com blog

The world of academia is abuzz this month with the recent announcement that Blackboard, the leading commercially available course management system (CMS), is acquiring competitor Angel Learning. The current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Volume LV, Number 37, highlights this discussion with a front page article ‘Blackboard Buys Another Rival, to Customers’ Dismay.’ The article notes that many colleges are considering a shift to open source course management systems such as Moodle and Sakai, but the primary stumbling block is training and support for their faculty and students.

This week, lynda.com is releasing two titles in the Online Training Library® specifically for teachers and students using the Moodle open source learning management system. As the Educational Technologist at Art Center College of Design, I work very closely with the great folks at lynda.com to provide training and support to our entire campus community. Art Center has recently launched our own campus implementation of Moodle and the response from our faculty and students has been so positive that I just had to share this experience with all of you by creating these two titles at lynda.com.

If you’re making the jump to Moodle for your campus, or even if you’re already using it, my goal with Moodle Essential Training for Teachers is to quickly bring you up to speed on everything needed to build courses in Moodle. The companion training, Moodle Essential Training for Students, was designed to get all of the students at your institution a leg up in learning to efficiently use the latest version of Moodle. We’re looking forward to hearing what you think of the courses, and hope you’ll share your experience using Moodle or other open source learning management systems.

Not sure what Moodle is? Check out this video on youTube.

I’m pleased to announce that my first video training title with lynda.com has been released into the Online Training Library, Moodle Essential Training for Teachers.

In the title I take teachers step by step through everything you need to know to build a course on Moodle. From setting up your test server on Mac OS X and Windows Vista, to working with the HTML Editor, compressing Images, Audio and Video I cover all of the basics to get you started. Next we walk through setting up Resources, Assignments, and Activities. I show how to create custom databases, use the glossaries in creative ways and set up discussion forums. We then walk through creating a wide variety of multimedia rich quiz questions; incorporating images, audio, video and custom Google maps. Pulling it all together, we build a quiz that incorporates everything you’ve learned in the training. There is even a chapter to teach you how to run all of the administrative functions of your course such as backup, restore and importing data from another course on Moodle.

The training is available online at lynda.com and will be released on DVD shortly. Schools can also order multi-user DVD’s of the title to make the training available to their entire campus.

Cheers,
Chris

Today’s tip shows you how to secure your data in Apple’s new Numbers 09. To use this tip you will need a copy of Numbers 09 which you can download a free 30 day trial of from Apple’s iWork ‘09 site. We then step you through the process of setting a password for your document and showing you how to test to make sure that your password is working properly.

Episode 110: Securing your data in Numbers 09

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Today’s tip shows you how to identify and diagnose issues with your wifi network. We explore a variety of tools including the Airport Status Menu, iStumbler and the Airport Admin Utility that will all help you when connecting to and administering a wireless network. We also show you how identify the least crowded wifi channel in your area and set your Airport Express or Airport Extreme base station to that channel.

Episode 109: Identifying and diagnosing wifi networks

Today’s tip shows you how to manipulate data in Apple’s new Numbers 09. To use this tip you will need a copy of Numbers 09 which you can download a free 30 day trial of from Apple’s iWork ‘09 site. We then step you through the process of entering data and then using the mouse to move and copy cells and formulas around the spreadsheet, saving you time and increasing your productivity.

Episode 108: Data manipulation in Numbers 09

It’s been a great show for Callinectes Training here at MacWorld 2009. For all of those interested in having custom video based training built for your applications, we look forward to working with you in 2009. Please have a look at the daily tips and tricks videos already posted here on our site. We will be reaching out to all of the vendors who expressed an interest in custom training as soon as we get back to the office next week. If you would like to schedule an appointment with us to begin working on the training for your product, please email us and we will move you to the front of the queue.

We will resume posting tips and tricks on Monday 1/12/2009.

Thanks again for a great show!
Chris