Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) is sponsoring its first round of Moodle usability testing this spring. here are two tests, one for faculty, one for students, that evaluate common tasks that they are likely to encounter when working in Moodle (such as updating their profile, responding to forum assignments, creating assignments, grading assignments, … Read more
One of my big projects this year — Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project — is now live. The project, known as CLAMP, is being funded by a NITLE Innovation Fund grant that was awarded to Lafayette and five other colleges last June to foster collaboration among liberal arts colleges in maintaiing and developing Moodle. The … Read more
Looking for a steady stream of IronPigs baseball news? Then check out the IronPigPen, which is an unaffiliated blog about the team. They’ve got game results, commentary, news, statistics and much more. You can find them at lvironpigs.wordpress.com.
Jason Alley and I have been geeking out about baseball over the last few weeks, what with the IronPigs having their home opener, the Mets and Yankees having their opening days at the brand new Citi Field and Yankee Stadium, and my daughter starting softball. All that time we’ve also been talking about playing catch … Read more
Moodle Core’s announced a number of big changes to the Moodle gradebook for the 1.9.5 release. Among the changes: the student name column is now sticky (which means you can still see if if you scroll to the right to look at additional assignments). The categories page has been re-organized and color coded to make … Read more
And the season is underway! My 6-year-old daughter and I went to our first IronPigs game of the season on Saturday, April 11th. Unfortunately, the ‘Pigs lost to the Scranton Yankees, but we still had a blast despite temperatures that couldn’t have been much north of 33 degrees. The only downside to the game? Really, … Read more
The Express-Times has an article up about local folks contributing Lehigh Valley articles to Wikipedia. There are a bunch of articles about Easton, Bethlehem and Allentown, as well as the regions history; you can learn more about what LV content is available on Wikipedia through the Lehigh Valley Wikiproject.
Looking around this blog, I can’t help but notice I haven’t been posting to it much, which runs counter to the purpose of the pilot. I’m going to redouble my efforts, and try to post something every day (or at least, every week day) for the rest of the pilot.
The Virtual Worlds in Education Global Conference is being held in Second Life this weekend (March 27-29). My avatar is a sad, pathetic little pile of pixels (nothing like Hiro Protagonist) but I might need to drop in and see what’s happening with this conference. Lafayette has a Second Life island that we’ve been experimenting … Read more