https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/569248850372484/
Everyone knows and agrees that “Blackboard is Ugly” but Blackboard simply won’t die because having been in the market the longest they are in someways best (if minimally) adapted to provided the services that colleges need.
Freeware suffers from a lack of development support, and as Blackboard imitators age they too grow less intuitive complex and outdated in their presentations of information.
I do think there is a solution, and it comes from the early days of the internet, a concept largely abandon except in the world of mathematics where we still use LaTeX. That solution is MARK UP LANGUAGE
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more on LMS in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=lms
How To Start Integrating Coding Into Project Based Learning
http://www.edudemic.com/coding-into-project-based-learning/
PBL Tenet #1: Create Real World Connections
Coding Application: Find a solution to a problem by creating an App or Website
PBL Tenet #2: Foster Critical Thinking
Coding application: Coding requires a series of logical steps
PBL Tenet #3: Structured Collaboration
Coding application: Coding creates learning communities
PBL Tenet #4: Student Driven
Coding application: Perseverance and self teaching are important skills learned through coding
PBL Tenet #5: Multifaceted approach
Coding application: A programming language is only one part of an app or website
• Monday
Basics of HTML
• Tuesday
Basics of CSS and/or Java Script
• Wednesday
Basics of mobile apps programing
• Thursday
Basics of HTML5
• Friday
Basics of XML
HTML for beginners 1
Learn to use HTML for Web development. Register for all 4 parts.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 10:00 AM until Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 10:45 AM Sponsoring Campus: St. Cloud State University
Location: MC-205
Instructor(s) Plamen Miltenoff
HTML for beginners 2
Learn to use HTML for Web development. Register for all 4 parts.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 10:00 AM until Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 10:45 AM Sponsoring Campus: St. Cloud State University
Location: MC-205
Instructor(s) Plamen Miltenoff
HTML for beginners 3
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 10:00 AM until Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 10:45 AM Sponsoring Campus: St. Cloud State University
Location: MC-205
Instructor(s) Plamen Miltenoff
HTML for beginners 4
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013 at 10:00 AM until Tuesday, October 01, 2013 at 10:45 AM Sponsoring Campus: St. Cloud State University
Location: MC-205
Instructor(s) Plamen Miltenoff
Photoshop, Part 1 of 4
Learn to use Photoshop. Register for all 4 parts.
Thursday, September 05, 2013 at 11:00 AM until Thursday, September 05, 2013 at 11:45 AM Sponsoring Campus: St. Cloud State University
Location: MC-205
Instructor(s) Plamen Miltenoff, Thomas Hergert
Photoshop, Part 2 of 4
Learn to use Photoshop. Register for all 4 parts.
Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM until Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 11:45 AM Sponsoring Campus: St. Cloud State University
Location: MC-205
Instructor(s) Plamen Miltenoff, Thomas Hergert
Photoshop, Part 3 of 4
Learn to use Photoshop. Register for all 4 parts.
Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 11:00 AM until Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 11:45 AM Sponsoring Campus: St. Cloud State University
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Photoshop, Part 4 of 4
Learn to use Photoshop. Register for all 4 parts.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 11:00 AM until Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 11:45 AM Sponsoring Campus: St. Cloud State University
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