Colin Jones

Male

Brisbane

Australia

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School / Work Affiliation
An Independent School in Brisbane
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acutethinker@aol.com
About Me
I have a doctorate in Chemical Engineering but was "infected" with the teaching bug ater the birth of my son.
I was trained as a primary school teacher but currently am a specialist ICT and Technology teacher with classes ranging from Pre-school to Year 10.
I have a particular interest in integrating technology in the classroom and am spending a lot of time familiarising myself with Moodle.

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  • Alyshia Olsen

    Hi,

    I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'connecting content and technology' groun, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

    Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

    Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.

    Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

    Thanks,

    Alyshia Olsen
    anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

    Dec 27, 2008

  • Mel J. Janousek

    Colin,

    Can you put "Moodle" on a single computer to try it and work with it or do you need to connect it to a server? I would like to try Moodle, but I wouldn't be able to connect to a server. Please let me know if there is an easy process to try it. Thanks for your time.

    Mel J. Janousek

    Sep 12, 2009

  • Mel J. Janousek

    Colin,

    I forgot to put an email address, if you wanted to contact me directly. It is: mjanousek@cccneb.edu

    Thanks.

    Mel J. Janousek

    Sep 12, 2009