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Melissa Benson
- 26, Female
- Plymouth, Minnesota
- United States
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What does your district use for blogging?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Melissa Benson Sep 8, 2008. 38 Replies 0 Likes
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Melissa Benson replied to Millis High School's discussion 'Embedding Google Apps' in the group Google Apps for Education
Yeah, we've embedded Google Apps stuff into Moodle (and WPMU) and it works great. Another thing to think about is uploading or creating in Google Docs, then instead of uploading it to Moodle, just "Link to web site" so you can modify…
Melissa Benson replied to Gregg Miller's discussion 'Listservs in Google Apps' in the group Google Apps for Education
We are looking at going gmail from exchange as well.
Why would they forward any email to their "current" email... if you're going to be using that email instead of MS exchange? Or am I misunderstanding your plan?
Roger Nevin replied to Melissa Benson's discussion 'How will you use Google this school year?' in the group I heart Google.
We have been using Google Apps in our school since Febuary 2008. It has been a huge success. Both students and teachers have said it improves learning. For information on the implementation v. Also see getgoogleapps.com
FYI Roger
Melissa Benson replied to Rob Hurley's discussion 'Joomla Question' in the group Free & Open Source Software
I may be wrong, but whether or not your Joomla site would get hacked is completey based on the settings and security of the server it is running on. These options and security issues would be set up by your networking and IT people. Again, I could…
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TICT Tech Support in the Osseo School District. I'm currently working with Moodle this summer. I'm also playing and coaching soccer.
I graduated from college in 2007 with a Computer Information Systems degree. I never thought I would be working in a school district but I love it! I'm a computer geek and love technology but I also love sports and working out, reading, music and just relaxing : )
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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet using technologies that haven’t yet been invented in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet."
"We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet using technologies that haven’t yet been invented in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet."
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- At 11:22am on January 6, 2010,
Miguel Guhlin said…
- Howdy! How can I verify--from Google--that there is no cost for 60K plus users in a public school district setting? Thanks so much for your response and feedback!
- At 8:58pm on May 24, 2009,
Mark Cruthers said… - Hi Melissa,
With your work in Technology for you school district, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Wiziq also as a Moodle plug in that lets you go directly into its virtual classroom from Moodle.
Here’s a public class recording conducted by Nellie Deutsch on Technology Integration.
- At 2:30pm on February 6, 2009,
Obe Hostetter said… - I see you use SMARTBoards in your school system. Check out the SMARTBoard Revolution Ning at http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com for lots of tips, ideas, files, websites and Notebook 10 training files for Windows or MAC.
- At 6:34pm on January 1, 2009,
Jack said… - Hi Melissa!
Happy New Year! I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a nationwide Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from Minnesota!
You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
- At 3:45pm on July 27, 2008,
Gavin McLean said… - That should be:
http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?songs=668077&T=291
- At 3:44pm on July 27, 2008,
Gavin McLean said…
- Hi Melissa,
I use Sony ACID pro for most of my stuff these days as its so fluid and intuitive to work with.
I have started posting some tracks at Acidplanet.com
cya,
Gavin
- At 3:52pm on July 24, 2008,
Gavin McLean said…
- Nice page Melissa,
Great Quote.
I want to add a quote to my page now!
I added your blog RSS to my blog:
http://globalmantra.blogspot.com
welcome to Classroom 2.0.
cya,
Gavin
- At 7:25pm on July 19, 2008,
Anne Mirtschin said…
- That is so true about the colleagues teaching you and then you get to a stage where the students are actually teaching you as well.
- At 3:32pm on July 19, 2008,
- Hello Melissa and welcome here. I love all your comments in your introduction as they are my sentiments as well. However, once staff see the wonderful benefits of web2.0, they gradually start to come on board as well.
- At 12:45pm on July 19, 2008,
Steve O'Connor said… - Give me a message if you want the email of the deveolpers so you can beta elgg 1 as a user.
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