Paperless Study

There are hundreds of ways to make your online class a better experience. Studying online is an increasingly available option - it's cheaper, and in many ways, better. There are lots of articles explaining how to create on-line learning communties and get a sense of belonging with your classmates far away. By far, this is the most important aspect of on-line learning.

But second comes the technology, which I've written an article about here. Unfortunately, teaching hasn't quite caught up to the possibilities digital study has to offer. What this means for you is that you'll have to make obsolete resources match more rapidly-developing technologies. Until the education system catches up, you're going to have to make some accomodations.

This afternoon I released version 1.2 of Portable Moodle, also known as Poodle.
 
This is a maintenance release to upgrade internal applications to more current versions. The latest version of Poodle uses the following software:

• PortableApps v1.6
• Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.6.3
• Sumatra PDF Portable 1.0.1
• Moodle 1.9.8+ (Build: 20100407)
• MoodleStart.exe 1.0
• The miniServer 21 v2

Full documentation of the upgrade process can be found on our documentation wiki.

Mike Holman, Manager of our Digital Resource Team, received this message from ministry partner, Michael M., in Zambia, Africa. It reveals how far simple technology's impact reaches when accurately applied.

Mike,

Thank you very much. I received what you sent to me ...

These things are helping our pastors very well. Our digital library has 320 regular ministers who do use the teachings. We have burnt 410 CD's to give to pastors.

Please do pray for me.

I do have four planned activities to get into new places to establish digital facilities.

In March I will go to the Eastern part of Zambia to meet 150 pastors for three days. We shall be talking about how to use MP3's and CD's. They believe that these materials are important for them.

In May I will go to the western part of Zambia for three days to meet 90 pastors. We shall spend time talking about digital library and also I will take moments to burn them CD's and DVD's. I hope to start a library here and so we are also looking for an external disc like you provided to me. One pastor has agreed to donate a laptop computer. We pray that we can also install 4 desk top computers...

In July I have an invitation to go to the Northern side of Zambia to meet 230 pastors and we shall expose them to the digital library. They will be using computers from a church. So we pray that we shall leave them with enough teachings on videos and audio CD's. The distance is far and I will travel with 4 other pastors.

80% of the world cannot or does not learn from reading

They prefer to learn by STORY

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