Week4

Creating a Digital Classroom with Course and Content Management Systems
Mambo, Moodle, Drupal, Joomla toc

Mambo Resources
http://www.mamboserver.com/ (check out the "Mambo Gallery" on the right) [|MamboSchools]- a consulting service for schools - they do the setup for you

Studeous
http://studeous.com/ Many technologies are available on the web that are great for teaching. Blogs, podcasts, and chats are great ways to teach information. But too often they can be difficult to use and are scattered across many sites. Studeous takes these different technologies and organizes them in a way to provide easy, accessible use to the entire academic community and all for free. By gathering these technologies in one place, Studeous creates an unintimidating environment for teachers to use varied web technologies.

Moodle Resources
http://www.moodle.org/ [|List of US Moodle Sites]

Drupal Resources
http://www.drupal.org/ Sample site: http://www.scienceleadership.org/

Test site: http://www.cchampion.net/drupal

Joomla Resources
http://www.joomla.org/ [|How to set up a Joomla website for a School in under 30 seconds]

Test site: http://www.cchampion.net/joomla

Reading List
Cox, Jon. (2007). MIT digitizes its courses, throws them online, and asks ‘What now?’ (Website). http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/112907-mit-digitizes-courses.html?page=1

Malcolm, Brown. (2007). Mashing Up the Once and Future CMS (Website). http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/MashinguptheOnceandFuture/40696

Wilson, Tim (2005). Interview with Moodle Founder: Martin Dougiamas (Podcast). http://support.hopkins.k12.mn.us/podcasts/STP-MartinDougiamas.mp3