NECC06+WIKI

A space for participants of my Presentation at NECC 2006. Open Source is the way to go for educators and their districts. I am always looking for feedback and resources to expand my open source offerings. Please post your input for me and your colleagues on the Discussion tab above. http://techtwaddle.wikispaces.com/NECC06 WIKI

References from Presentation: [|NECCO6]

[|Presentation Slides - Open Source Portal: Uniting E-learning, Digital Portfolios, and Student Progress]

Moodle - Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, [|Open Source] software package designed using sound [|pedagogical principles], to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University. [|The Moodle Site] [|My District's Moodle Installation]

Metadot - Metadot is a leading open source portal software (GPL) used to create websites, intranets, extranets, project and community portals [|**anyone can use.**] [|The Metadot Site] [|My District's Metadot Installation]

Policy Book implementation - Every School District operates under a set of Policies - in cooperation with NPV, we developed an online implementation to handle these policies allowing for clear communication with local communities. [|NPV, Inc. Site] [|My District's Policy Book Installation]

ePort - An electronic portfolio is a collection of structured (templated) web pages that you can easily build and maintain without any knowledge of programming or web publishing. [|MyEport SIte] [|My District's new ePort Installation] [|a quick example]

[|My NECC Blog]

The following was originally published June 21, 2006 at http://www.sharonbetts.org/sshare/2006/06/lets-talk-about-necc.html [|NECC] is only 2 weeks away. I posted earlier that I was presenting on Open Source Portals and now have decided to blog the sessions that I attend. You can read many opinions and critiques by checking out [|all the postings.] I am getting so excited as it is always so motivating to start the summer with great educators from around the world. Hope to see you there! Tagging NECC06 is a fabulous idea presented by [|David Warlick.] Now he has setup an aggrator to pull us all together. Check out [|Hitchhiker]. [|] Technorati Tags: [|necc06]