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Engaging students online: Going beyond BB Collaborate and Zoom

Posted on April 24, 2020 by AlanP

BlackBoard Collaborate and Zoom are both excellent as web conferencing tools to link teachers and students, but educators need to expand their repertoire to include tools outside the web conferencing software to get engagement once the initial novelty wears off. … Continue reading →

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New quizmaker software: Swency

Posted on January 1, 2019 by AlanP

If you find Kahoot too much hype and over competitive, with too many options that you never use, then there is a start up that has produced a simple down to earth quiz maker. It is web-based, called Swency (https://swency.net). … Continue reading →

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Speed up Joomla 3.7.5 – a plugin that made my site crawl

Posted on November 12, 2017 by AlanP

In the past few days a website I administer Kampot-ontheedge.org became painfully slow. I am talking about taking 35 seconds to load any page on the website.  When I tried to get some idea of the problem using GTmetrics it took … Continue reading →

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