Laura Gibbs's Blog (24)

(reposted here from my Online Course Lady blog)



I just had a delightfully happy feel-good moment related to digital content!



This evening I got an email from a blind student who is learning Latin using a digital audio recording of Wheelock's Latin, one of the standard Latin textbooks. So: that is good news to begin with - I am glad that there is a good Latin textbook that has been configured so that it can be used… Continue

I'm not sure if there are Desire2Learn users here in the Classroom2.0 world, but I've created a Forum over at the College2.0 ning group about jazzing up your Desire2Learn homepages for back-to school, hoping to find out what other people are doing and what approaches other schools are taking to customizing the Desire2Learn homepage. So, if you are a Desire2Learn user, please take a look over at the College2.0 ning and join in there! (I've been following both the Classroom2.0 and College2.0 ning… Continue

Yesterday I posted something about my Roman Emperor widget and lo and behold this morning I got a nice email from a Latin teacher in Catalonia who has added my widgets to his blog (Blogum iactum est). That is SO EXCITING! I create these widgets for use in my own pages and online courses, but the best part about them is that anybody else can use them, too. I'm… Continue

Hi everybody! Happy Tuesday! I just published a new widget at my collection of javascript widgets and gadgets over at SchoolhouseWidgets.com. I have so much fun every time I publish one of these, and I would be very curious what members of this ning community think about widgets as a way to share content.



Basically, I am a content-generating machine (it's fun for me, and…

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