Thing #18

CMS and LMS ... CMS is an acronym for Content Management System. This is a software created so that multiple users can access, edit and remix documents. One company with the capability is Google. You can create a document in Google Drive and share it with multiple users. The great this about it, is that it has real time editing. If a student or participant edits a document on one computer the alterations show up on the docuent right away. LMS according to Ed Tech Training and Tools is a Learning Management Software. This software attempts to house all aspects of a digital classroom in a one stop shopping convention. Schoology and Edmodo are examples of LMS. I have done trainings at school with this type of tool and one teacher in particular has adopted it and loves it. Madame Blend, our French teacher has incorporated it beautifully in her classroom. It has helped her establish a "flipped" classroom. The students seem to enjoy responding to each other in the "facebook" like format. There are two distinct types of learning going on in classrooms today. The first, is the well established type, asynchronous learning. This type is what is presented in the traditional classroom. IE, teacher stands in the front of the classroom and delivers the lecture to students sitting in front of him/her in desks. The 23Things portion of this TIS journey is an example of synchronous learning. Everything that we are tasked to do within this program is based on the computer and the internet. It is not a traditional classroom in the slightest. As students we go out and seek the knowledge, we learn on hour own by doing.