Haiku Learning Management System

I met with the reps from Haiku, who are going to be speaking in LA soon.... now I don't have to go to that! :-)

There's three general levels of school services out there competing for our business:

• School Management Systems, or SMS (Whipple Hill, Blackbaud, Etc.) that facilitate school information like schedules, registration, attendance, grades, transcripts, communication.
• Classroom Management Systems, or CMS (Whipple Hill has this, Moodle, EdModo, any web-based tool teachers can use for assignments, downloads, links, drop boxes, etc.
• Learning Management Systems, or LMS (Moogle, Haiku, etc.) where lessons take place, not just class materials and drop-boxes. Teachers organize lessons on there, interaction takes place.

While Whipple Hill's class pages make an attempt at mini-LMS pages too (with images, message boards, embeded video, audio for podcasting) Haiku seems to be really taking a good direction and getting noticed for it.

Haiku lets teachers organize their classes, but really set up lessons that embed any web 2.0 tool you can think of. For example, embed a prezi, voicethread, blog feed, etc. Although setup of the prezi, voicethread etc takes place on that service, the teacher is putting it ALL IN ONE PLACE for the students. That's the great thing about it.

Online School for Girls uses Haiku LMS for their online courses. If you take a professional development course on there, you'll experience it yourself. I have enjoyed my online class so far and it all comes together.