Showing posts with label google sites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google sites. Show all posts

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Google Apps as LMS and PLE

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In the digital era of Education, Learning Management Systems are delineating themselves as good allies for the teaching practice, providing a canvas to place contents, PLE curating tools, a secure environment to work in, different collaboration modes, activity control systems and several ways of assessment.


But, what LMS would suit you best? That depends on your needs, your audience, your digital abilities, the LMS’s complexity and your budget. There are multiple options, as Moodle, Edmodo or Google Classroom, among many others.

This article is going to focus on the free edition of Google Apps. During the last years they have been put to an enhancement process, and, nowadays, they can be effectively used for educational purposes. To do so, they have to be synergistically constellated to create a consistent and coherent system. If you aren’t familiar with them (or don’t know how to use them), have a look at Google’s documentation: http://learn.googleapps.com/home

Go on reading the full article in EDTECHREVIEW.IN

Thursday, December 12, 2013

How to embed things in Moodle or Google Sites




Knowing a bit of HTML can make a big difference when configuring your LMS, site or other things.







The magnificent educational platform called MOODLE lets us insert a great bunch of things inside the courses. It goes the same with Google Sites, despite they are more strict with some tags.

But when we want to improve things a bit more we need to know how to hack it, i.e, how to embed generic things from any other website. Have a look at the video below in order to learn the secrets of embedding.

Note: the iframe tag showed in the video is the following one. Paste your URL in the SRC label, and change the width and height to fit it.

<iframe
src="YOUR_URL_GOES_HERE&embedded=true"
style="width:400px; height:500px;"
frameborder="0">
</iframe>