Last week, I organised a study day for colleagues on the subject of teaching, learning and assessment of improvisation and composition. The most complex issues arise when trying to assess creativity. Whilst there are no real problems in deciding what represents quality creative work, all hell breaks loose when we try to measure it. We [...]
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The serendipity that is late night Googling led me to some interesting links you may not have seen.
West Sussex schools have almost completed a major roll-out of Moodle.
Found a posting by our own Ben Noys in Ballardian, the site for all things JGB. As my colleague Phil has just returned from the Riviera, [...]
Some of my contacts in other universities report favourably on Elgg, a social networking platform based around choice, flexibility and openness. Basically, Elgg is software that allows users to use other Web 2.0 tools in a PLE (Personal Learning Environment) as a social networking framework. These can include blogs, RSS feeds, links to [...]
Primary Citizenship Conference: Citizenship & Sustainability Date
14th June 2007; 9.00 – 4.30 Venue: Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton.
More details from Duncan at d.reavey@chi.ac.uk
Terry Hanson has suggested this link. It’s a comparison of the two VLEs we’re looking at and includes survey stats from 4 universities – some interesting reading!
http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm
At the VLE meeting last week, David Scarfe from Bognor library was talking about editing and combining RSS feeds. I used to use RSS to keep up with the news on my computer but as I’m usually woken by Humphys, Naughtie, et al I’ve usually had my fill by the time I’m at [...]
How can you edit & combine RSS feeds?
There seem to be 4 solutions:
1 Hand code in XML (yet another hoop to jump through!)
2 Use some software to produce the code
3 Use a website that will allow you to select existing RSS feeds and
combine them with your own text
4 Use blogging software, such as WordPress
Assuming you [...]
We in Science in Teacher Education have been trying out a variety of forms of differentiation among our trainee teachers. We feel this makes sense given that our groups of 100+ trainees have diverse prior learning, backgrounds, motivation and ability, and given that differentiation is an expectation in school. One way we have done this [...]
After last week’s post on our move towards Moodle, someone stopped me and said, not quite in these words but you will get the central thrust, “Moodle, caboodle, ding dang doodle, blog, dog, Web 2, diddly doo, just got my head round Portia, or was it Porsche, aargh …. help, my head’s exploding!”
Anyone who [...]
