Welcome to Dennis Daniels' wiki and cms.

Feel free to contact me.

• Sites
• Training Videos
  • Operating Systems
  • Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)
  • Learning Management System
  • Teacher Specific
    • Automated Evaluation
    • Regex to the rescue
    • Paperless is Perfect for the ESL Classroom
  • Teacher to Parent
  • Programming
  • Game Development
  • Desk Top Publishing
  • Productivity
    • Calendars
  • Imaging
  • Maps
  • Networks and Network Applications
  • Web
  • Mindmapping
  • Screencasting for Supporting Instruction in the Classroom
  • Electronic Evidence of Learning Portfolios
• Links
• Blog
• Images
• Music
• Books
• Movies

Sites

Please click on any of the links below to see some of the courses I've been developing and delivering for my classes.

I run my Moodle course site here:
http://dennisgdaniels.thinkingdistance.org/

Training Videos

If you're having trouble reading the text in the google flash player consider downloading the videos. I try to keep the videos short so it shouldn't be too painful to download.

• all of 'em 700 total but not all are tutorials...

This is _all_ in an effort to promote paperless classrooms.

Operating Systems

• Linux
• Linux Edubuntu
• XP
• Cygwin

Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)

• LTSP
  • K12LTSP Case Study
  • K12LTSP Thin Client Solutions
  • LTSP represents the lowest cost way of putting the most computers in front of the most students for the lowest cost and most robust learning experience. I've built a super inexpensive computer network in my classroom and recommend that every teacher who is concerned about their students' future, in this very dynamic economy, pursue similar technology in their classrooms.

Learning Management System

• Moodle
• Moodle is free and compares well feature wise with its very expensive competition. Serious need for recursive test creation though.

Teacher Specific

• teacher specific
• students using a webcam to demonstrate math solutions
  • Math teachers! Encourage your students to record their math solution process and publish them for the good of all math students!
• grammar assignments made easy for teachers

Automated Evaluation

• MIT's iMOAT Evaluation Tool
• Criterion and MyAccess? as well but they're pricey products and the motives are less than community friendly.

Regex to the rescue

• using regex to speed grading and test preparation
• So much of what teachers do requires strong text handling capabilities, if the text is digital then regex will represent huge time savings for you!

Paperless is Perfect for the ESL Classroom

ESL Support Tools and Methods
coming soon!

Teacher to Parent

• Teacher to Parent

Programming

• Squeak
• Starlogo

Game Development

• Freeware Gamemaker Demos
• I really want to explore this as a platform for creating educational software... it's free and fairly easy to use... but the texting capabilities are poorly documented and I've not found many examples of educational games from Gamemaker.

Desk Top Publishing

• word processing
• MS Publisher
• Power Point

Productivity

• OpenOffice

Calendars

• Google Calendar
  • Activities and events are a big part of school. Google **Calendar can make it quite easy for stakeholders to participate across the community.

Imaging

• Picasa
• Paint . Net
• Autostitch dot net
• How to draw

Maps

• Google Earth
• Google Map on Tikiwiki!
• Google Earth to Plan a Trip
• Wikimapia

Networks and Network Applications

• networks
• TightVNC
• XP remote desktop
• NetOp *I never got a single reply from them, I'd say the company is a waste of time but the idea is good.

Web

• Firefox
• del.icio.us
• Tiki
• quick web worksheets with Jotform
• youtube
• email

Mindmapping

• Freemind
• Mayomi
• Gliffy coming soon!

Screencasting for Supporting Instruction in the Classroom

• screencasting
• Google Video
• students using a webcam to demonstrate math solutions **All students in math classes should be recording their solutions and talking them out as they do so... record and publish as evidence of homework completion.
• Vegas Movie Studio

Electronic Evidence of Learning Portfolios

• Free! Easy! Learning Portfolios on line!

Links

hmmm del.icio.us!
stumble

Blog

Screencasting and Networked Education Environments
vid tuts
vid fun

Images

http://phoyos.blogspot.com/
and
www.flickr.com/photos/dgd/ (though the UAE has blocked flickr )

Music

pandora

Books

read think act

Movies

cinephile

And of course, my site, which is where you are!

The pages on this site are a mixture of everything that has occupied or interested me in the last four years.


For those of you who've never seen or played with a Wiki then please read about it here and then see and read how concerned people are working to make knowledge free.

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Teachers! Feel free to use any material you find here; try to remember where you found it and remember to review Open Source applications before you pay for any software!