Teachers in the ESU 13 region have used Manila in the past to easily create web pages to support classroom instruction, and share information with parents. We have been searching for a Manila replacement for about a year, and selected the multi-user version of WordPress. During the last month numerous teachers have received training and […]

Given the rural setting of the region served by ESU 13, the use of web 2.0 tools to create professional learning communities has real potential. Many of the schools we serve are very small, and a grade level or subject area teacher may be the only person in that district with that specific assignment. The […]

I have been experimenting with a variety of open source applications during the last few years. The ESU is currently running Moodle (Learning Management), Elgg (Community Building & Blogging), WordPress MU (Blogging), phpESP (Survey), and Gallery (Photo Storage). The whole open source community is very intriguing to me. The creators of this software are willing […]