Neit2010+Open+Space+1+D


 * Course management system**

. People  using Blackboard, Google, First Class, Moodle, Finalsite. suggestion-Haiku, Schoology and Google's Course Cloud, Edmodo . Nobody is happy with any one product. All have their pros and cons. Moodle not sexy enough and hard for teachers to pick up. Need support for Moodle. Can Outsource custom themes cheaply. Basil has used someone for $500/year but no buy in from teachers. . First Class has been losing customers. Their email is so far behind and they do not support several important things. They have been bought and hhe original developers have left. Concern about it's stability. . Teacher mentor program suggested to help teachers to buy in and use any course management system. . Look at Moodle 2.0. New release was supposed to be in July. . Power school was also used, simple and well-received. . Too many products that schools use for each aspect of school life: black baud, black board, info snap, moodle, exchange etc... . Whipple hill expensive and does have great support. . Finalsite just released 2 way API. They also are much cheaper and have better support. They also interact with Senior systems and one other SIS. They also have a blog feature. . Social networking: people are using Ning, pligg, extreme, word press

http://www.haikulearning.com/ http://code.google.com/p/cloudcourse/ https://www.schoology.com/home.php http://www.edmodo.com/ http://www.blackboard.com/ http://moodle.org/

Attendees: Michelle Koetke, m.koetke@holychildrye.org