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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | MOODLE JOURNAL NOVEMBER 26, 2009  Google Wave today, Moodle Wave Tomorrow? I am just about to dive into Google Wave (just could not resist the association here). Just like the view in demand services that are appearing for TV and Radio, we will have the Wave playback facility, wow. You may like to start with this two minute plus quickie , and then go on to the one hour twenty minute coverage preview , both are worth the time to sit and watch. | MOODLE JOURNAL OCTOBER 1, 2009 Free hand written font generator Producing materials that will be distributed through either a vle or similar e-learning delivery platform, immediately draws the question, should these be the same as documents I would hand out in class, well maybe, but maybe not. For a start, handouts in class tend to be black and white, fundamentally because of the printing costs, so there’s the first difference that’s up for easy change. Now not withstanding all the widgets and gadgets that you can incorporate into almost anything that’s electronic, how much consideration do we actually give to fonts? BarryS | | | | | |
| MOODLE JOURNAL NOVEMBER 16, 2009 Phased Moodle training If you have been following this blog, then you will have read that last year marked the start of a new rollout strategy for our Moodle vle to staff at the college. While there has always been a steady though often less than regular stream of staff attending my training sessions, the strategy this time around has been more of a drip feed approach rather than the former one of empowerment. In past years the training course has been delivered over a three-hour session that covers a whole raft of exercises accompanied by a substantial user guide. Please stay in touch for updates on this one | MOODLE JOURNAL NOVEMBER 4, 2009  OpenSim and virtual worlds Apart from my work here at Bromley Colleg with Moodle and all that that involves, some time ago, I think it must be about 7 or 8 years now, I discovered 3DML and started to do some developing with buidling 3D worlds or Spots as they were called back then. Anyway I built a Spot, and trialed it with my students with really encouraging results. | MOODLE JOURNAL OCTOBER 26, 2009 Writing on the wall Since I decided to begin making use of Facebook as a means of communicating with my students out of class, the post to response time has generally dropped in some cases from hours to minutes, clearly something I should tried before. So now I start to think of ways that I can make use of the network to draw-in and engage it with college life more. began by posting out messages of congratulations accompanied by badges for work they had completed to an exceptionally good standard for C programming exercises. | MOODLE JOURNAL OCTOBER 18, 2009  Giving Facebook a try The other day I had an email from our network manager with a link to a BBC news item promoting the use of social networking in colleges using Facebook ; strange that I often go to some lengths in separating social from computer networking during conversations, still. The article suggests that using Facebook, improves both engagement and retention, mmm. | | | | | | | |
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MOODLE JOURNAL | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009  Note taking any where
I was talking to one of my colleagues recently who, with some enthusiasm has embraced the idea of eLearning to such an extent that all of his students now arrive at class not with a notebook and pen, but a wireless enabled laptop! Now not withstanding the problems that you may or may not experience with wireless technologies, one of the issues that soon make itself apparent is the activity of note taking in an electronic environment. So what is this all leading up to, go back to pen and paper, no. The other day I discovered OneNote , which comes with Microsoft Office 2007. MORE >> -
MOODLE JOURNAL | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009  Chatting Software Design
Today I met with a group of my new Foundation Degree students who are just starting out in learning Software Design using C, not the best of places to be I must admit. We met today not because we had a class, but because they wanted advice in how to establish a self-group, brilliant I thought. Apart from the advice on content, I started out by setting up a new forum for them in Moodle, which they liked the idea of, and I asked if they had any preferences for a name, they came up with Cmaritans, good one. MORE >> -
MOODLE JOURNAL | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2009  Role playing font styles
I recently posted a blog on some thoughts that I was having on the subject of fonts, which you may have read. Anyway on lighter note, today I found this amusing video on characterising fonts, amusement value good, follow this link and enjoy MORE >> -
MOODLE JOURNAL | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009  New Virtual Learning Environments
Well this week I moved away from Moodle as my sole platform for delivering collaborative e-learningand started to make use of SL as part of my course delivery. We get around the college proxy and closed port issues by have a parallel network on a Linux subnet and dual boot PC facility in one of our workshops. The task that I had set my students, there are around 20 in all, was to create a wind turbine in SL, whose blades would turn in the wind. To keep the project easy I did not use a physical object but demonstrated how the value for wind speed could be found and then fed into llTargetOmega(). MORE >> -
MOODLE JOURNAL | MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2009  Quality Improvement Project
The Quality Improvement Project, is a new college initiative at raising attainment. small group has been formed of which I am a member, looking into new approaches for teaching and learning. One of my insites of recent times has been the realisation, mainly from Moodle logs, that students do not seem to be engaging beyond college as much as they could. With this in mind one of my principle targets will be to utilise LAMS as a means of presenting graded exercises beyond the class room. MORE >>
- e-Book offer MOODLE JOURNAL | TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009
- Social networking survey MOODLE JOURNAL | THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2009
- LAMS Activity Planner MOODLE JOURNAL | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009
- Trying out Lams MOODLE JOURNAL | TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2009
- Mahara Moodle MOODLE JOURNAL | MONDAY, JULY 13, 2009
- Mahara first time user MOODLE JOURNAL | MONDAY, JULY 20, 2009
- Moodle the Internet and learning MOODLE JOURNAL | MONDAY, JULY 20, 2009
- Starting to use LAMS MOODLE JOURNAL | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
- e-Learning tools list MOODLE JOURNAL | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
- Computing in the cloud MOODLE JOURNAL | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
- Teaching and learning C online MOODLE JOURNAL | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
- Blog worth a visit for the eLearner in you MOODLE JOURNAL | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
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