Learning the World » Uncategorized http://knewquist.edublogs.org An education tech blog by Ken Newquist Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Gradebook improvements in Moodle 1.9.5 http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2009/04/17/gradebook-improvements-in-moodle-195/ http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2009/04/17/gradebook-improvements-in-moodle-195/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:54:58 +0000 Kenneth Newquist http://knewquist.edublogs.org/?p=190

Moodle Core’s announced a number of big changes to the Moodle gradebook for the 1.9.5 release. Among the changes:

  • the student name column is now sticky (which means you can still see if if you scroll to the right to look at additional assignments).
  • The categories page has been re-organized and color coded to make things easier to understand.
  • Administrators can now reduce the number of grade aggregation methods.
  • The Gradebook’s drop-down navigation menu can now be supplemented by tabbed navigation.

There’s a lot of stuff in there. We’re going to be delving into it on a test server just as soon as the code is released to CVS; I’m looking forward to seeing how our usability tests run with this new Gradebook.

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]]> http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2009/03/17/21-of-the-best-wordpress-plugins-for-new-blogs/feed/ 0 ITS Coffee Break – iTunes U, LibWorm, Del.icio.us Tagging http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2006/12/15/its-coffee-break-12182006-itunes-u-libworm-delicious-tagging/ http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2006/12/15/its-coffee-break-12182006-itunes-u-libworm-delicious-tagging/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:27:47 +0000 Kenneth Newquist http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2006/12/15/its-coffee-break-12182006-itunes-u-libworm-delicious-tagging/ News about the iTunes U pilot program at Lafayette College during the Spring 2007 semester, a discussion of the LibWorm librarian search engine, and a look at how to use Del.icio.us to highlight stories for classroom discussion. Get the podcast from Soapbox.

]]> http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2006/12/15/its-coffee-break-12182006-itunes-u-libworm-delicious-tagging/feed/ 0 Hello world! http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2006/12/14/hello-world/ http://knewquist.edublogs.org/2006/12/14/hello-world/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:28:37 +0000 Kenneth Newquist Some how it always begins with “hello world”, doesn’t it? Welcome to my outpost on EduBlog. It’s a humble little blog and its primary reason for existence is to serve as a sandbox for me to evaluate WordPress MU for possible use at Lafayette College.

It may evolve beyond that over time, as I find myself greatly enjoying this implementation of WordPress, and it could be useful for me to have an education-oriented blog out there.

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Yep, that's right, MySpace topped Yahoo in page views in November 2006 according to comScore Media Metrix (which admittedly, I hadn't heard of until this article, but I don't keep up with web ratings that much). Yahoo blames their second place finish on the adoption of Ajax, which reduced the number of page views on their site.

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Concerned about folks trying to tease out your Amazon, eBay and other username and passwords via spoof e-mails? Then check out these web resources:

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From CNN via AP:

“Hackers attacked the computer network at the Naval War College in Newport, taking down the school's network for more than two weeks, including some e-mail services and the college's Web site.”

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Or at least, a thumb drive. WOS Portable allows you to setup a working web server on a flash drive. The 200 mb installation includes Apache 2.2.0, MySQL 5.0.18, PHP 4.4.2/PHP 5.1.2.2 and PhpMyAdmin 2.8.0.3.

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Want to blog, but just don't have the time? Let your Xbox blog for you. 360 Voice looks at your public Xbox 360 stats and then builds a narrative based on them, adding new blog entries for each day you play. Here's the 360 Voice blog for Major Nelson, of Microsoft's Xbox Team.

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ID3 tags in MP3 files can sometimes run amok. MP3 ID3X is an MP3 editor for Mac OS X that helps you put things right by editing both the text and image tags within the file. The software is avialable as shareware those who register gain the ability to batch edit files.

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