Native American Storybooks

This is a collection of links to full-text Native American stories online with the beginning of a sample story for each collection to excite your imagination! There is a link both to the continuation of the sample story and also to the complete story collection online. The script is available as a Random Native American Storybook (random display every time the page refreshes).

You can get the javascript to add this widget to any website (blog template, course management system), or you can add the widget with just one click to your Blogger.com blog.

Here's the link for the script and more information:
Native American Storybooks Widget Script

Desire2Learn Newsletter Article

Desire2Learn is the course management system we use at my university, and the folks at Desire2Learn asked me to create a "Showcase Course" for them at their community website, highlighting the use of widgets. They also asked me to write a brief article about that for their community newsletter, 2Gether - and the newsletter just came out! Here is the article:

Feeling at Home in Your Homepage

I hope that seeing some examples of ways to customize the D2L course homepage will inspire more people to customize their homepages! My impression is that many (most?) instructors do not customize their homepages, which is really unfortunate: the online world can become pretty mind-numbing if every class looks just the same, and it's so easy - and fun! - to create a custom homepage.

:-)