Kable.MY - Malaysia's Premiere Instructional Technology Website

Kable.MY

"This website provides the latest news, articles and tutorials on emerging technologies for educational purposes, and serves as a hub for educators to congregate and share ideas that can be put into practice. It is hoped that this website will be on the forefront of Malaysia's instructional technology and inspire educators to use technologies to enhance their instructions."

NEW!
19 hours ago, I got a pleasant e-mail from Hafiz Hanif, who invited me to visit his new Kable.MY website. I was also invited to be a freelance writer for the website, but I told him instead of being a freelance writer, why not use whatever you like from ZaidLearn, and then link back to the original post (article). The reason is that whatever I write to share (to anyone), I will post it on ZaidLearn (First!). Anyway, this post is not about ZaidLearn, but about this awesome Kable.MY website that I just discovered, thanks to Hafiz Hanif.

Although, Kable.MY is still brand new, and probably needs some time to build up a substantial collection of awesome articles (unless they reuse with attribution and permission from great Edubloggers out there), I am really impressed with the website design, and the first few articles too are very useful and relevant.



INSPIRING!
Also, I like their team's learning philosophy and spirit:

"We are a bunch of normal educators like you, with the enthusiasm to provide the latest and fun ways to teach students, to inspire them with the use of technologies that are often regarded as a separate entity from our instructional strategies. Here, we share our thoughts on how to integrate technologies into your everyday teaching and learning activities, and how to understand the design of certain applications, how to re-purpose the applications to suit our educational needs, and how to get control over our own methodological strategies (Source)."

Yes, certainly a good start! The challenge is to keep that volcanic creative eruption continuously flowing, and if the passion and focus is there... WOW, this could evolve into something really special!

Thinking of it, after being inspired by Kable.MY's awesome website design, I believe it is time to relook and rethink the website design of ZaidLearn, which has not really changed much since its inception. But then again, neither has Google's homepage either. But, then again I have yet to find that swoosh factor that fits ZaidLearn's flavor and content. One thing for sure, I would want the revamped website to infuse a lot of (white) dreaming space free from anything.

I believe it is time to erupt some changes soon...Need another 102 days to think about it!

Kable.MY, thanks for this inspiring website, and hopefully it will inspire more educators in Malaysia to share their learning stories and tips. Yes, why not :)

Edunovice Offers Affordable Tutorial Services

• edunovice
• Home Tutor Malaysia (blog)

ONLINE LEARNING CENTER
Edunovice is a new online learning center for anyone who is fond to learn Math. Currently they are only distributing online Math exercises and reading materials for students who are in Form 1 to Form 3. Edunovice also plays its part to help local publishers, tutors and advertisers to benefits from our Math community.

VISION

• Edunovice hopes to provide the best reading materials/notes to students and adults around the world.
• Edunovice strive to provide the cheapest and Free Online resources to our community within years to come.
• Building up a math community worldwide to have passion for math.

MISSION

• Make it Cheap / Free For Everyone.
• Build a community where everyone can contribute
• Provides Online material for everyone from all ages.
  

OPPORTUNITIES

Edunovice also provides opportunity for home tutors, local/international books publisher to take advantage to promote products, conduct seminars and advertising in our websites. They are committed to bring the best to everyone.

INTERESTING!
If you register, they provide you for starters with some free maths and physics notes. Their learning concept is rather straight forward: Learn through examples and exercises.

Isn't that what we want! If you are interested in online tutoring services, why not check it out. Just click here :)

KPerak eLearning Cluster (Goes Moodle)

• Link to KPEC project
• Moodle - Free/Open Source CMS/LMS

"The KPEC (KPerak eLearning Cluster) project is a school-based programme designed to provide professional development for teachers in the cluster of 5 selected schools:

• SK Sri Adika Raja
• SMK Matang
• SK Seri Bayu
• SK Seri Ampang
• SMK Raja Perempuan Kelsom

The main focus is on developing teacher capability in the use of ICTs within their teaching and learning programmes. Teachers are supported by facilitators working in schools, and by specialist online support and links to existing content made available from the iNZed team through this website.

Key elements of the KPEC programme are online forum conversations, virtual field trips, student participation and collaboration both between the cluster schools, and with schools in New Zealand."

MOODLE?
Interestingly, they are using Moodle (Open Source/Free Course Management System) as their main online learning platform to facilitate this KPEC project. New Zealand OER project is also using Moodle. Coming to think of it, several Universities in Malaysia are using Moodle as their main online teaching and learning platform (Explore the 'Higher Education' links and you might stumble on a few). Actually, there are thousands of educational institutions, communities and companies using Moodle all over the world.

What makes Moodle so attractive, besides being Open Source and Free?
I suppose it is because it is easy to install, manage, maintain, scalable, and has an amazing free support community. Yeah, Moodle also has tons of useful tools and features (and 200+ additional plugins) to facilitate effective learning. Oh, I forgot to mention that Moodle is really easy-to-learn and use.

In other words, if you are looking for a course management system or an online platform to manage and facilitate your learning, perhaps you should explore Moodle first, before investing loads of money in commercial systems. You never know, it just might be the solution you are looking for. Yes, then you will also have more money left to invest in training and support. You certainly do not want to run out of funds after software, hardware and network infrastructure expenses. Moodle here I come :)