After a little time off, we’re back again with a new podcast: No Reform.

After my little rant entitled: In education, there really is no reform and let’s just drop all of the rhetoric and let the people who need to teach, teach…I get back to some more practical ideas.

With Ning.com announcing their new pay-for-services schedule, there are some Open Source options (one being BoonEx Dolphin).

EduMemiary
From the makers of Memiary (memory + diary) comes the educational version with the question for students: What did you learn today? Wonderful way to engage students in reflecting on their own learning.

Messaging in Moodle
Instead of turning it off because we fear that students may *gasp* message one another, let’s use the feature for our own advantages in education: students communicating with the teacher.
Also, if you want to limit student messaging to only other students in the same class, take a look at this hack from moodle.org.

Here’s the podcast:

Next Week: ReadCloud and Grading Strategies in Moodle.