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Got this email today which I reprint, very happily, with permission. As much a testament to the spread of open source, the difference a little empowerment makes and the vitality of this teacher!

“Hello James,

It was a long semester. I have really learned alot using TikiWiki, WP Blog, and Moodle. In a year end technology training, I demonstrated Blogs, and Wikis to the teachers. I even taught a 3 hour session on using them in the classroom. The teachers were do excited about it, they asked the technology director if our district could set them up a server to use Moodle. He promised them he would “look into it”. I am not as optimistic about that. I hope I am not using too much server space. I have tried to watch what I upload. My using Moodle has caught on in other areas. The neighboring school system called me after hearing I had Moodle in my classroom and asked if I could show them how to use Moodle. They set up a server and sent me an admin account. http://moodle.columbus.k12.nc.us/moodle . I was also featured in a state wide professional development session and the professor that served as the interviewer for the program went home set up her Moodle site. http://www.bookosphere.org/moodle/

One more spin-off from you letting me use your server to learn about Blogs, Wikis, Moodle. The educational staff at NCNERR http://www.ncnerr.org/ will be meeting this week to discuss adding Moodle to their teacher outreach to help educate teachers and provide distance learning for professional development.

Not bad for a country boy school teacher and a Aussie from down under! What is it…the wings of a butterfly can cause a Hurricane to form on the other side of the Earth.

Thanks for making a difference in the way I teach. Hope to be able to continue using the Moodle. As soon as I get my server running, I will backup what I have and try to move what I have somehow to our school’s server. I have no time line as to when anything will be ready. I will contact you as soon as I hear anything. All that server stuff is out of my hands. All I know is that my students love Moodle.

Thanks,

John”

:O)

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