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New Experiments in e-Learning

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

After all the inevitable turmoil of applications and enrolment for the new academic year, I finally got down to some regular classes. I met with my new first year level 3 students and during the session introduced them to the vle. I demonstrated how we would be using the various resources that it has available, and wound up with an invitation for them to contribute to their own learning resources for the Website Production module by contributing to an online Glossary.

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Transforming the consumption of education

Moodle Journal

JULY 17, 2010

If you would like to publish your course materials on the Internet, but have no access to a virtual learning environment, then Nixty.com , with a promotion handle of ‘Empowering Education for Everyone’, could very likely be just the service that you are looking for. I registered as a user, had a good look around the facilities and the look and feel are good.

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Moodle winterland

Moodle Journal

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Well winter has arrived with its usual surprise and caught out here again in England; I thought you might appreciate a snap of my garden. College closed early yesterday just after lunch and is closed completely today. I have just finished marking some HE test papers and uploaded the results into our Moodle vle. While posting this blog, I have actually moved on and am now waiting in Moodle chat for any students who may drop by requiring assistance with coursework.

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Project case studies arriving

Moodle Journal

JULY 11, 2010

With July well underway, the first of the eLearning project case studies have started to arrive. From the original group of proposals and for a number of reasons a few have dropped by the wayside. One was discontinued because the member of had their timetable changed so lost contact with the target group. Another member of staff left, which accounted for two projects and two more projects have failed to be completed for no other reason than available time.

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20 video sites

Moodle Journal

JULY 19, 2010

One media that I am increasing making use of these days is movies. Whether they are screen capture, short clips or whole programs, I think can make for a really flexible and engaging resource that I can so plug them into our Moodle platform with ease.

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Creating a Moodboard

Moodle Journal

DECEMBER 6, 2010

One of my courses this year is in Website Production, and I was interested to see that the design stage included a moodboard, I was a little unclear about exactly what that meant exactly, so I decided to make a start with Wikipedia. OK that is a lot clearer now, but I need to see one really, so try YouTube and up comes this really instructive tutorial on making a moodboard for a website, really nice, and thanks to David Perel for that.

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New eILT Strategy group

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

I was invited to attend a meeting to look at the expectations that we should be adopting for the coming academic year in the department, where I must say, I did seem to attract a somewhat disproportionate number of action point, but no matter. Toward the end of the agenda of items that we were covering that day, I was asked to put into place a proposal for a department ILT strategy.

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Free eLearning Books

Moodle Journal

JULY 12, 2010

If you have not come across the eFrontiers blog yet then let me recommend that you pay it a visit. The site features among other things a really interesting and useful list of free books on eLearning. While some are limited chapter downloads others are the full version or their web based equivalent. The link for the books feature is here however I am sure tht you will find the blog has just as many other resource postings that will be of use and interest.

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Blog but beware

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2010

One of the VLE training courses that I run here at the college, Moodle Web 2.0, introduces those features that are part of the standard build such as Chat, Forums, Glossaries, Blogs and RSS. With regard to the Blog feature and the way in which we have it installed, I always emphasise the need to post a blog as 'Publish to yourself (as Draft)'. The reason for this is two fold.

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e-Learning projects to go

Moodle Journal

MARCH 6, 2010

It was a while ago now that I was asked to head up an e-learning project initiative here at the college. Just this week the proposal finally received that seal of approval, funding. The idea, is that now teaching staff are beginning to make more use of the vle, which after all is really little more than an e-Learning delivery platform, they should now start to think in terms using it deploy and track learning activities rather than just as a means of distributing course notes, which so often is

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Web Conferencing with OpenMeetings

Moodle Journal

MAY 20, 2010

One of the recent project proposals that I received this term was for the use of a webcam based conferencing system. We did try a couple of the free web based services for this, but ran into some problem s with privacy and to a certain extent security. Anyway we began dig around on the web and found OpenMeetings. This is free open source browser-based software that allows you to instantly setup a conference in the Web.

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eProject Requests

Moodle Journal

APRIL 29, 2010

Since the email went out here at college offering staff the opportunity to apply for funded learning projects I have so far received a number of applications. For each of these I arranged an initial meeting where we discussed the level of funding, which takes the form of hours that would be paid for development time, plus any resource costing. All the projects will commence during this coming summer term.

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New round of training starts

Moodle Journal

MARCH 2, 2010

Just into a new round of vle training in Moodle. We have now completed the rollout and trials. From experience of trying to deliver the basic course in year 1 and then move on to the more advanced features in the following year though seemed to not produce the desired effect. The problem appeared to be that if staff were slow to take up use of the vle fairly soon following the training, they seemed to loose confidence and I found them returning to the course again the next term or later.

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eLearning and accessibility

Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

If you are reading this blog, then the chances are that you also actively produce eLearning content. Given that we certainly need to avoid the pitfalls of just dropping standard class handouts onto the vle and thinking that's fine; chances are if they are not read in class, they will not be reading these on-line, at least that's my experience. That said there is the whole area, and I am not sure upon reflection that I give it the attention it deserves of accessibility.

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 11, 2010

Are you trying to Twitter with students, I like to, but network filtering has started to become more than a problem of late. So how about a microblogging system that has been designed specifically for teachers and students? If you have not seen it yet, then take a look at Edmodo. In essence similar to Twitter, but with some functionality to support classroom activities.

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New Experiments in e-Learning

Transforming the consumption of education

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Moodle winterland

Project case studies arriving

20 video sites

Creating a Moodboard

New eILT Strategy group

Free eLearning Books

Blog but beware

e-Learning projects to go

Web Conferencing with OpenMeetings

eProject Requests

New round of training starts

eLearning and accessibility

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