Just in Time Learning

Put something out there and be amazed. I had my own snackbyte moment today. A couple of weeks ago I posted the previously mentioned slideshow to Slideshare. Within a couple of days I received messages back from the site that the slideshow was added to a supercool effective practices of Web 2.0 teaching group. I also got word from a teacher who claimed to have had a moment with fellow teachers when they were talking about Moodle and the slideshow popped up in the group at the same moment.

I realize it's my own trade in attention economy, but I have to blog about this!

So did this teacher, who is called maggiev on Slideshare. Please read her post here.

The best part is the chat log included. You can read the whole thing at Maggie's blog post and the conversation begins about different tools, including Moodle...

Scroll to the bottom of the transcript for the 'just in time' moment.

The force is out there....and it's pretty strong.

Free, like Free Kittens!

In my experiences with sharing the good news of Moodle, I find I am often trying to explain the concept of something being free of licensing fees, but still requiring a certain infrastructure and level of support to be successful. Today on WizIQ, I received a message from a fellow Moodler which let me to this slideshow by Sandeep. Promoting Moodle as 'Free (like Free Kittens)' really captured this idea. I share that slideshow with you now. What I like the most is the slide which shoes the different types of support you need. For my own slideshow attempt at the same topic, please see this on Slideshare.