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Jamendo is a site I just learned about from Free Technology 4 Teachers, an award winning blog. This is a search engine for free/open source music. Give Jamendo a try by clicking here.

..that is: I’m ready to test Moodle in up to three of my classes. I’ve taken down my personal website and installed Moodle 1.9.x (weekly whatever) on it. So far I’ve already started a course for the book I’m reading in an English class. Two history courses (on industrialisation and the First World War) will be [...]

If you are looking for an educational Linux distribution, you have at least three choices: openSUSE Education is a live and install  DVD based on openSUSE 11.2. Edubuntu is the education version of the quite popular Ubuntu. LernTux and KinderTux are Mandriva derivates created by Dieter Schütze. KinderTux is especially interesting, because it ...

I got bitten by this ugly bug (Bug 555027 – autologin failure …) and could no longer login to my lovely Gnome. With the help of the fine lads at #opensuse-gnome on Freenode and in the forum, I was able to find a patch here. Now everything seems working again. Bookmark It

If you (like me) have no idea of what to do with Inkscape, hop over to Inkscape Class Day 1 « Máirín Duffy for an eight session course by Máirín Duffy. Originally held for 7th grades in the Boston area, all of us can enjoy the course via blog and PDF. Impressive! Bookmark It

This book (Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching) seems to be exactly what I was looking for. Strangely, there are no reviews on Amazon for it yet. The contents are impressive, as is the price tag: a hefty €35-40. The book is promoted in the Moodle Language teaching community and probably worth the money, so I’ll [...]

… this might help you: GnomeLoginHang

Firefox one of the world's most popular browser is turning 5. Mozilla has accomplished quite a bit since 2004 and looks nowhere near slowing down. Check out their nifty little video on celebrating Firefox and what's in store for the future by clicking here.

If you’re coming to the Midsouth Technology Conference, I will be a presenter at these sessions: Dec 9: DIY Edtech-Edupunk-Why and How (Assisting Aaron Fowles) This presentation will address the why and how of DIY educational technology, sometimes called edupunk. Rather than list a number of resources and how teachers can use them, we aim to ...

I had an email from Adrienne Carlson today, telling me about her informative blog post : 100 Best Open Source Apps for Educators.  Have a look! Some of the ones I liked were  Penzu, a journalling site with opportunities for online journalling for our students. WordSift, really handy for visualizing words, especially when ...