Hi there Kevork .. I do a lot of maths stuff in my year 9 Research Science class. Good excuse for me to look at the Maths VELS again.<br><br>SCORM modules are a great idea to develop and share modules .. Phil Brown is my expert with that one. Worth touching base with him. From memory, <a href="http://exelearning.org/" target="_blank">eXe</a> and <a href="http://www.reload.ac.uk/editor.html" target="_blank">ReLoad Editor</a> are both good open source software editors .. the later is probably a good place to start. This thread is two years old but worth reading up.<br>
<a href="%20http://icodeon.wiki-neon.adaptavist.com/display/public/2008/01/12/SCORM+Content+Development+Tools">http://icodeon.wiki-neon.adaptavist.com/display/public/2008/01/12/SCORM+Content+Development+Tools</a><br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/24 Kevork Krozian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevork@edulists.com.au">kevork@edulists.com.au</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
As we all unwind - or is wind up ? - I have been gifted a Maths class for the first time in 15 years. It is a Yr 9 class.<br>
I am looking at placing all assessment on line ....... this means not just multi choice questions, but extended answer, steps towards a solution, diagrams , filling in the box , mathematical notation and more ....<br>
<br>
As I begin to scratch around for ways this can be delivered I would love to work with anyone out there interested in joining me on this journey including TEX notation, SCORM, and anything else out there I need to know about .....<br>
It would be great to share tests and any other material this way.<br>
Let's showcase the best of Moodle and delivery of a truly online course that students can work through at their own pace and also as a class.<br>
<br>
With thanks<br>
<br>
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<br>
Way back in 1988, when you were 'king of the heap' if you had a 14.4kbps<br>
modem and 'emporer' if you also had a laser printer, a certain school<br>
(Monash High in Clayton) needed its course booklet printed. A certain<br>
John Widmer of Templestowe Tech offered us the use of his laser printer.<br>
He suggested that we dial in and use the 'Tempest' BBS to send the file to<br>
him for printing.<br>
<br>
Then I did some calculations - it was going to take longer to upload the<br>
files than it would take to drive from Clayton to Templestowe. So, when<br>
all the world was 5.25" disks, I set off with a 3.5", drove to Templestowe<br>
and printed the booklet!<br>
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My first work experience out of school was with Ferranti Space and<br>
Defence in Edinburgh where I tried to assist the bloke who programmed<br>
the moving map displays on a PDP8. I struggled to understand the<br>
programmer who spoke in machine code and assumed everyone could<br>
understand it. It was another ten years before I managed to write a<br>
functional machine code program for x86 hardware.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
In my first real job we upgraded from Data General Nova 1200<br>
<a href="http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum/machines/Nova12xx.html" target="_blank">http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum/machines/Nova12xx.html</a> (or<br>
something very similar) with address and data lights, paper tape and<br>
teletypes, bootstrap program loaded with switches, to the DEC PDP11/03<br>
with TI 733 terminals (thermal printers and cassette tapes for program<br>
and data). The great advantage of the PDP11/03 was that it didn't use<br>
the unreliable magnetic memory boards (4kb each) and didn't have to have<br>
a bootstrap program loaded manually. I missed the flashing lights<br>
though - took a lot of the magic away, but as a tech I certainly didn't<br>
miss the Teletypes. We used the computers on drilling rigs to predict<br>
downhole pressure from various measured parameters.<br>
<br>
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Subject: Re: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and<br>
beyond<br>
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<br>
hehehe thanks Kent :-)<br>
<br>
The melbourne museum has a PDP-11 .. I am working on an OLPC activitity<br>
with the curator David for ACEC2010. I should collect some stories from<br>
you for a digital stories archive I am working on :-)<br>
<br>
Anybody else used the PDP11 or have some fond stories of older computer?<br>
(Apple ][e .. Acorn??)<br>
<br>
Regards Roland<br>
<br>
2009/12/16 Kent Beveridge <<a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</a>><br>
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Oi! Dont knock the PDP-11...I was one of the bunnies who used one of<br>
them!! Fond memories of the tape to tape setup...oh whoops..perhaps, I<br>
am like that bloke in the wheelchair too!!<br>
Its ok to get old ya know..<br>
Just NEVER allow yourself to stop trying new stuff within your own<br>
limits.<br>
When you do stop...THEN YOU ARE EITHER OFFICIALLY OLD OR...errr, lets<br>
not go there.<br>
<br>
hehehehe...<br>
<br>
Kent. (enjoying the hols..we finished last Friday..YAY).<br>
think I will go watch the cricket now kiddies...Go Aussies...<br>
<br>
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Subject: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond<br>
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Thanks Rob .. catchy song. I wonder what we will be singing in the<br>
naughties. The singers with the KISS makeup brought back memories. I<br>
would catch the 'train' to St Kilda to swim at the beach and race home<br>
on Sunday to catch Count Down on the TV. My friend was lucky ... he had<br>
a BW TV in his fibro cement bungalo.<br>
<br>
I guess I was also lucky .. one of the first to do the VCE (although<br>
back then they just changed the name .. under the covers it was still ye<br>
old HSC!) .. watching Star Wars at the movies too many times .. rattling<br>
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a school could then get a computer back then was to visit Radio Shack ..<br>
and soon afterwards, collect safeway receipts to buy bits of an Apple<br>
][e<br>
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Yep .. Dr Bernard Holker really broke some ground with the keynote<br>
presentation at ACEC2000, I still have the Real Media Player file that I<br>
recorded from the streaming webcast. Must toss it up onto the creative<br>
commons :-)<br>
<br>
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2009/12/15 Costello, Rob R <<a href="mailto:Costello.Rob.R@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">Costello.Rob.R@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>><br>
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what an interesting post Roland<br>
<br>
reminds me of a song when another decade was starting<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbE8KWIFnD4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbE8KWIFnD4</a><br>
<br>
appropriately named, The Monitors - no doubt a subliminal msg<br>
about the rise of technology in there<br>
<br>
a deep and powerful song, that has lived with me since<br>
<br>
i had no idea that a speaker at ACEC invented social networking<br>
on the internet<br>
<br>
who would imagine that 'sharing messages with small text boxes to<br>
connect people' would lead to Facebook and Twitter<br>
<br>
unfortunately i wasn't at the event so i didn't get the DNA<br>
injection that makes me get up and dance when this is mentioned<br>
<br>
maybe if we recorded a remix 'what will be texting in the<br>
teenies' it might not be too late?<br>
<br>
(when quoting that brilliant idea, please avoid changing it to<br>
'what will be texting to the teenies' since it will create legal<br>
complications, unless we add the refrain, 'its for learning, e-learning'<br>
which doesn't quite rhyme)<br>
<br>
five years after that classic song hit the airwaves, i did HSC<br>
(yes HSC) in Vic ...<br>
<br>
i found myself reflecting last night on what maths teachers have<br>
lost in the usage of technology since since then... i can't helping<br>
thinking we did better, in some ways, in that discipline, when the<br>
computer ratio was 1:20<br>
(<a href="http://thinkingcurriculum.decenturl.com/mathswars5" target="_blank">http://thinkingcurriculum.decenturl.com/mathswars5</a> )<br>
<br>
i see now, of course, that i am like the guy in the wheel chair<br>
in the clip, dreaming of a past that is better abandoned to kids in Kiss<br>
costumes - they are the future!!!<br>
<br>
(excepting the fact that at the time i was 11 and i thought it<br>
was ridiculous even then ... but no doubt i just suffered historically<br>
displaced geek delusions that IT looked interesting; and stuck in the<br>
80s i couldn't know that it was twitter that i was really waiting for<br>
... passing notes around the room would go electronic and world wide!!)<br>
<br>
(now back to work : encoding maths questions and interactive<br>
approaches into technology - roll in the wheelchair. i'm on the leave<br>
from the dept, and while you overworked teachers enjoy a break, we burn<br>
midnight oil (more subliminal messages from that band too - Peter Garret<br>
was really commenting on the online anytime nature of future work)<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
<br>
Rob<br>
<br>
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Subject: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond<br>
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Apologies for the cross posted and duplicate messages.<br>
<br>
Our decade is drawing to a close .. I had so dreamed that by now<br>
we would<br>
fix the planetary climate control system and make inroads to<br>
poverty . was<br>
it wrong for me to hold these dreams of a united vision?<br>
<br>
I am a member of a conference team made up of talented IT<br>
educators from<br>
primary, secondary and tertiary sectors .. some from the country,<br>
some live<br>
in the city .. just like you all They all share the vision of<br>
doing<br>
something 'wow' that brings together friends from around<br>
Australia. As I get<br>
to know them and like other teams I have worked with, I am<br>
increasingly<br>
impressed by their passion for making this event work and now<br>
share their<br>
dream. I frown at anybody that is too quick to pour scorn,<br>
quarantine and<br>
isolate their hard work or just belittles the efforts they put<br>
in. Anybody<br>
who volunteers to work for a subject association gets my thumbs<br>
up. Read my<br>
tag line below .. it is people that matter.<br>
<br>
At the Melbourne ACEC2000 conference,10 years ago, Dr Bernard<br>
Holkner spoke<br>
as a keynote about an idea and story about sharing messages with<br>
small text<br>
boxes to connect people. With groups pumping money into<br>
multi-media<br>
upgrades. It was our burning questions discussions around this<br>
topic poured<br>
the foundation for the social networking that has since,<br>
revolutionised the<br>
Internet and our thinking about how it can be used in our<br>
professional lifes<br>
and teaching / learning practice. I have been going over the past<br>
notes I<br>
scribbled on papers presented by Tim Kitchener and Paul Chandler<br>
that helped<br>
to focus my thinking about what I was doing. Things I learned at<br>
NECC2008<br>
from the study tour that I attended with Jo, Jill and Renee, I am<br>
still<br>
kicking around in my blog.<br>
<br>
What role will you play to help help us weave together new<br>
stories beyond<br>
2009? What will you take from and where will you be in 10 years<br>
time? What<br>
dreams will you share with the next generation of educators?<br>
<br>
I look forward to meeting up with many of you at<br>
<a href="http://www.acec2010.info" target="_blank">http://www.acec2010.info</a> <<a href="http://www.acec2010.info/" target="_blank">http://www.acec2010.info/</a>> in<br>
<br>
Melbourne next year and to everybody, have a safe, Merry<br>
Christmas and a<br>
happy summer solstice.<br>
<br>
Regards Roland<br>
<br>
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