Hi!

[Nancy McKeand]

Thanks to all of you for the warm welcome! 

I have a lot of experience using Moodle.  I love it.  Last fall a group of us used instead of Blackboard at the university, but we were denied access to the network to use it in the spring.  I use Moodle all the time for an online class I teach for a foreign university.  

As for Schooltool, which Tom said might not be a good fit for my university needs, I really like what I have seen so far.  I have set it up on my own laptop, and that is how I would run it.  Security is the big issue as far as the university is concerned.  If I can figure out how to have it send from my university email account, the fact that I can send grade reports straight to the students email accounts should eliminate some concerns.

I am afraid my university is very afraid of anything not Windows-based.  We have a  language lab running XP.  My office computer runs Vista.  I am afraid we are too technology-rich  for me to make any inroads there.  The only concessions they have made is to allow me to run OpenOffice on my desktop  and on the laptop that belongs to my program.

Again, thanks for the welcome.  I will continue to poke around  and  see if I can find my niche!

Nancy




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From: "indigo196 at rochester.rr.com" <indigo196 at rochester.rr.com>
To: Nancy McKeand <namckeand at yahoo.com>; ubuntu-education at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 8:09:05 PM
Subject: Re: Hi!

Nancy:

Welcome to the list. 

Do you have any experience with Moodle?

What types of 'problems' are you trying to solve with technology?


Charles

---- Nancy McKeand <namckeand at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> My name is Nancy McKeand, and I teach English as a second language at a university in New Mexico.
> 
> I have been using Ubuntu for a long time.  I have looked at edubuntu  but have never run it on any of may machines.  I am just now starting to play around with Schooltool to see if it might not provide me with a way to do some of the things I want to do with my classes.  I haven't made it very far yet, but what I see is interesting.  
> 
> I would love to become involved in an education-related Ubuntu project, but I have no idea where to start.  While I am trying to figure that out, I will listen and learn from you.
> 
> Nancy McKeand
> 
> 
> 
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