Gadget Grace

This morning I choose to share about my love affair with Netbeans. Our paths crossed sometime February 2005 during the Philippine Society of Information Technology Educators, Inc. National Conference here in Mindanao, Philippines. I was then a fresh graduate of two years. Then, it was but unfortunate that I was one of those many who have not savored its true prowess – not that I ignored but simply because the opportunity was not mine at those times to shake hands with this IDE – Netbeans. To sum up, sadly, our instructors failed to introduce us 
However, it was in a split second when the Sun Microsystem Program Manager- Philippines swept me from where I was seated into having an empowered mind as I look forward to a seamless and robust programming style and campaign to add to that – because Netbeans was introduced to us – in a short period – I got hooked. My inspirations intensified as fellows from the academe continuously benefit as I write this, from the auspices of the Java Education and Development Initiative (JEDI) Philippines…and my love affair grew kinder and special not only in improving my Java programming skills but specifically – knowing more of Netbeans and its versions almost every year from such swift development from great teamwork. In truth, my first java programs were compiled using Netbeans 4.1. I have never been introduced to an IDE that has so much potential and demonstrates agile performance to top it all and Netbeans continuously amazes me every year for their newer versions and newer capabilities. Now I can teach my students Java with Netbeans with such ease that I even participated as a resource speaker in the recent Software Freedom Day 2008 celebration in Isabela City talking about Netbeans to the community  Hehehe! Fun times!
Netbeans has become a part of my life and my one love affair that won’t make me sleep as I eagerly glue my eyes on the monitor to test codes. Netbeans opened up a potential thread inside me that now, I do enjoy programming and share code techniques. Indeed, it will always play a spark that lures to me get updated in the digital world.

My congratulations to the brains behind Netbeans! Happy 10th Birthday Celebration!
Thank you JEDI! Thank you Netbeans!

WIZIQ.. Anyone can Teach & Learn Live, Online

WiZiQ is a place where you can teach and learn using an easy-to-use
Virtual Classroom. You are welcome to give private and public live
online sessions, teach for free or earn money teaching. As a learner
you can attend public sessions on various topics from academics to
anything under the sun.

more info here : http://wiziq.typepad.com/

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Using WiZiQ’s Live Class Modules with Moodle
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Using the Free Virtual Classroom with Moodle
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The Online Virtual Classroom on WiZiQ is a free alternative to
expensive web-conferencing software, and has audio and video, chat,
whiteboard and multiple document sharing support. This collaboration
tool can be used for synchronous online sessions with Moodle. Teachers
can connect globally with students using this tool. To use the virtual
classroom, Moodle administrators can now download WiZiQ’s Live Class
modules for Moodle and install these modules in the Moodle
installation on their server.

Users can simply activate our “Block.” and launch an “Activity” right
from within Moodle. How-to video tutorials are available on the
downloads page for Moodle here:

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http://www.wiziq.com/downloads/moodle/
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On Moodle
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Activity: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1113

Block: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1114

The modules have been successfully tested on Apache, PHP and MySQL
installations and support Microsoft IIS server installations also.

Highlights of the Virtual Classroom

1. It is free, both for teachers, and students.
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3. Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, and .pdf, .swf,
.jpeg and .gif files can be uploaded to the Virtual Classroom.
Animations are supported in .ppt and .pps presentations.
4. Presentations from the public content library on WiZiQ can be
imported into the Virtual Classroom for reference.

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