lunes, 25 de febrero de 2013

All about Moodle!


What is moodle? 

Moodle is a project that is focused on giving educators the best chance to promote learning. Almost everybody can use it: 

  • Primary and secondary school can access to moodle
  • Full-on courses can be found on moodle 
  • There are also forums and databases 
  • Some use moodle to teach their subjects and others use it to deliver content 
 

Interesting facts:

  • The most important fact is that moodle is free to download!
  • There are 220 countries that use moodle. 
  • There are 60,417,573 moodle users. 
  • After the United States, Spain is the second country with the most registrations; here is map.
Mapa de registros de Moodle
CountryRegistrations
Estados Unidos11,907
España5,885
Brasil5,016
Reino Unido3,899
Alemania2,917
México2,758
Portugal2,101
Colombia1,841
Australia1,710
Tailandia1,635



Moodle at ASB:

Here at ASB almost everybody uses moodle! Teachers post projects, homework, due dates or even grades and students check it all out from their own homes. 

Adding to this, moodle is easy to use and has a very simple look to learn how to use very quickly. 
Below you can see a screenshot of our own moodle page in Technology 10. As you can see you have a practical calendar, videos, text and various links! Moodle at ASB is great!

IS GREAT


and if you want to download it or check it out...

http://download.moodle.org/ 






lunes, 4 de febrero de 2013

All about GIMP

WHAT IS GIMP?

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image retouching and editing tool and is released under the GPLv3 license asfree and open-source software. There are versions of GIMP tailored for most operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.


GIMP has tools used for...
  • image retouching and editing
  • free-form drawing
  • resizing
  • cropping photo-montages
  • converting between different image formats
  • and more specialised tasks. 

The developers and maintainers of GIMP have a product vision for GIMP to strive to be a high end free software graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, photos, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements. 

SCREENSHOTS OF "GIMP" USERS

GNU/Linux Screenshots


Microsoft Windows Screenshots



Mac OS X Screenshots



DOWNLOAD GIMP! 


If you want to download GIMP... go to the link below and start enjoying!