I need access to online courses

I’m taking a summer graduate course in pursuit of my Master’s in Ed Tech and it’s all about distance education. To that end, I am looking for courses using one of these platforms…

WebCT (preferred only because I’ve never used it)Sakai (preferred for same reason)Blackboard (ick)Moodle (yay!)DrupalEd (is there anyone out there employing this with students, yet?)

So, got a course me and a couple classmates can access and evaluate? The evaluations will be posted on our wiki, which is really only for folks in the class, but it’s on pbwiki so it can be seen publically.

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Ms. Weingarten Runs a School

There's trouble in paradise, and it may take more than a spoonful of sugar to fix.

The UFT-run charter school, which was to be perfect in every way, appears to be suffering from some of the same issues that trouble other charters. As a regular reader of both NY Teacher and Edwize, I know Ms. Weingarten has never, ever made a mistake, and no one who works for Ms. Weingarten has ever made a mistake. Naturally, I must suppose they hire perfect teachers who'd happily labor forever under her beneficent leadership.
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Blog Studies

The

use of Internet technology to facilitate interaction, communication,

and collaboration is well documented but its use in establishing and

developing “personal voice” as part of learning is also now being

addressed through the use of blogs. Finding personal voice as a

pedagogical method is important to establish learner identity and

focus, and journaling has long been recognized as an effective way to

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