Moodle Journal
OCTOBER 31, 2005
As part of the Moodle training I always mention the fact that its possible to switch the editor into HTML mode and that way if you know a little about web page design, its entirely possible to hard code some features. I mention this because its resulted in a number of requests from staff for some training in HTML, and I wonder if other Moodle installations have begun to witness similar interest from their staff.
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 11, 2005
A recent CNET article noted that the typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by an e-mail, IM, phone call, etc. If you are working on something creative, it takes about 8 minutes for our brains to get into that state. With all these distractions how is anyone able to get anything done? The result, says Carl Honore, journalist and author of "In Praise of Slowness," is a situation where the digital communications that were supposed to make working lives run more smoothly are actua
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Clive on Learning
OCTOBER 26, 2005
A plea to IT user trainers in five thrilling instalments Some forms of training never seem to change. If you teach sales, customer service or management skills, chances are that you would have covered much the same content in much the same way 25 years ago. You may be doing the same 25 years from now (although even soft skills trainers would have caught on to e-learning by then).
Vignettes Learning
OCTOBER 24, 2005
The holidays are coming and I must find a justification for buying (as a gift to myself) the iPod Video. Currently, I am enjoying my 40 Gig iPod for music and have downloaded hundreds of my favorite songs. The cool thing about iPod is the way I can organize, listen, and purchase music anytime I want. I can personalize my iPod. I’ve also added audio books and have now tested Podcasting files.
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Big Dog, Little Dog
OCTOBER 30, 2005
Free Mind Mapping Software. Open Source mind mapping tool. About mind maps. Tag: mindmap. Review: Everything Bad is Good for You - Slashdot. In, Everything Bad Is Good For You , Steven Johnson tries to convince the reader that video games, television and the Internet are good for us, despite critics who talk about "vast Wastelands" and "infantilized societies".
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Moodle Journal
OCTOBER 22, 2005
The Assignment hand-in feature in Moodle really came into its own this week, when I used it as a mechanism for collecting assignments, not just because you get to know if work is handed in on-time or even at all for that matter, but because with the particular type of work ‘Software Development’, models are refined until you produce something that logically works OK.
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 30, 2005
Technology is always, at best, two steps forward, one step back. But the more comfortable you are with the technology, the more you can take advantage of the good and mitigate the bad (although too much comfort can blind you to the bad, but that's another point). One of the trickiest parts of producing a learning program is to navigate what I will call the lag of death.
Clive on Learning
OCTOBER 20, 2005
With the recent announcement by Apple of the launch of the video iPOD , once again video is in the spotlight as a tool for learning. Now seems as good a time as any to reflect on the curious relationship between video, computer technology and learning. I was introduced to the dubious joys of computing back in 1980, by a video engineer that I had employed to set up and run a production studio within the training department for which I was responsible.
Vignettes Learning
OCTOBER 24, 2005
The holidays are coming and I must find a justification for buying (as a gift to myself) the iPod Video. Currently, I am enjoying my 40 Gig iPod for music and have downloaded hundreds of my favorite songs. The cool thing about iPod is the way I can organize, listen, and purchase music anytime I want. I can personalize my iPod. I've also added audio books and have now tested Podcasting files.
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Big Dog, Little Dog
OCTOBER 27, 2005
Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show - Wired. The debate revolves around the cracks that are starting to appear in Web 2.0, a term coined by O'Reilly Media Vice President Dale Dougherty to describe a post-dot-com generation of sites and services that use the web as a platform -- things like Flickr, BitTorrent, tagging and RSS syndication. Language and the 'Otherness' of the Environment - Dave Pollard.
Moodle Journal
OCTOBER 19, 2005
I had a second request for the Moodle training course to be taken as a self study option yesterday, and when I went along to deliver the notes, cd and introduction to the system this morning, the whole staff room wanted in, so fine with me, instead of one 1 got 5, this is good news actually and if it works out fine.
Moodle Journal
OCTOBER 14, 2005
I ran another staff training session this week for Moodle and looking at the enrolments we now have 75 staff on the system, not bad. I beginning to realise however that given he demands on staff time, the opportunities for class cover so that you can attend a morning or afternoons training during term time are limited and with that in mind, next week I am going to try the first distance learning version of my course.
Moodle Journal
OCTOBER 10, 2005
I had an email the other day asking what I thought of the Moodle Object module, no idea, but I quickly got to the posting, click here to see, basically its provides an easy means of incorporating nln type materials into the vle, great. I emailed Clive our Moodle system administrator to ask what he thought and he must have been impressed because soon enough it was up and running, though not without the discovery, that it was not happy with our 1.4.2 live version of Moodle, though it runs fine wit
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Moodle Journal
OCTOBER 5, 2005
After my last post on the CMS / VLE debate, I have started to get some feedback on new learning materials at long last, this week my level 3 Software Development students currently working through Software Design methods where surprised by the arrival of an assessment (formative) on Tuesday afternoon, the colour did appear to drain from a couple of faces.
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 29, 2005
I'm not sure if Googlizing is a word but the way this steam engine is rolling I'm sure it will be soon. David Grebow's recent post ( Wait a minute, let me Google it. ) really got me thinking and since I hate the fact that comments do not get seen by those receving RSS feeds of this blog I decided to do a follow-on post rather than a comment. -- Breaking News!
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 27, 2005
Google has become a digital extension of my memory. The older I get the more I use it. If I forget how to do something, or cannot remember a fact or name or place, I Google around for a bit and find it. For example, this morning I was on the phone talking with a client. We started talking about a film and neither one of us could remember the name, only that Al Pacino was in it.
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 28, 2005
Face it, you generally can't see participants' faces in a virtual classroom. How do we know they are getting it? Are they sorting spam in Outlook or checking sports scores on ESPN.com? I remember quite a few high school & university classes where class participation counted as a relatively significant part of your grade. With most integrations between virtual classrooms and LMS products it seems like launching the classroom URL is about all that is tracked.
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The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 25, 2005
As I work with organizations in developing e-learning, I am increasingly aware of dead elephants in the room, large reference points that we have to avoid because we can't wrap our minds around them. Here are some: When you talk about development time, the context is downloadable flash based mini-games. Flash based mini-games, like this one , can be developed in just a few weeks.
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 23, 2005
Despite the heavy investments societies have invested in literacy over the past couple of hundred years, it is no longer pursued by some as a desired educational goal. Mihai Nadin, the author of The Civilization of Illiteracy , writes how the pursuit of it has taken four main branches: Those: for whom literacy is a skill. using it as a means for studying values based on literacy. functioning in a world of prepackaged artifacts. active beyond the limitations of literacy, such as stretching cognit
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 24, 2005
In one project on which I am working, I have been asked for a strategy to quickly capture a lot of presentations from a lot of people to share with others. My first thought was using Centra, but the client always uses the telephone for voice, and I am not sure if they have save capability. A second option is to use the record voice option in PowerPoint.
Clive on Learning
OCTOBER 17, 2005
In an astonishing speech - as much for who gave it as for what it contained - Rupert Murdoch told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that "Too many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers. No wonder the young are ditching their newspapers. They don't want to rely on a God-like figure from above to tell them what's important.
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The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 12, 2005
I have noticed a pattern that I would like to share, even though it is somewhat tangential to the theme of this blog. I just saw it again yesterday. There are "Strong Brand" organizations: Microsoft, Google, Harvard University, IBM, Accenture. Even actors in a high-profile television series. New employees are excited to get in. The parents are thrilled.
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 12, 2005
Six months or so of focusing on a real (rather than a virtual) theme -- in this case, intercultural communication -- led me far away from the specific "culture of e-learning†shared by the participants of this blog, although my intercultural work inevitably involves online deployment. Coming back into the fold by posting a message on this blog is in itself an interesting cultural experience, a kind of re-entry shock.
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 12, 2005
Wow, consolidation is running rampart in the eLearning space as everyone continues to merge or acquire. Look to your left and look to your right; easily one of those will not be around in six months. Today BlackBoard announced plans to merge with WebCT; the two leading providers in the higher education eLearning space (BlackBoard alone forecasts US$150M+ for their fiscal year).
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 11, 2005
AJAX. Heard of it? You will. You've already seen it in action on the Web somewhere. How about Widgets ? No, not for Mac (although that's where they come from) - for Windows. I actually made on the other day. Heard about Google's API 's being open? How about the Google sidebar ? MSN revealing its APIs? America's Army (the free game) now has a site touting its availability (the game's) as a platform.
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The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 11, 2005
Fist, I want to reveal my bias in this area. I believe the gaming world is way ahead of the corporate world in all aspects of collaboration, social, behavioral, technical, etc. So I am looking to see what is transferable from the gaming environment to the corporate environment in terms of collaboration and learning. In addition, I am an old gamer, and in my 30's spent a number of years playing D&D (Dungeons & Dragons).
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 9, 2005
Before Einstein, scientists would observe and record something, and then find the right mathematics to explain the results. Einstein comes along and reverses the process by finding a beautiful piece of mathematics based on some very deep insights into the way the universe works and then makes predictions about what ought to happen in the world. Behold the power of human creativity.
The Learning Circuits
OCTOBER 7, 2005
Learning 2.0 || Web 2.0 Maybe this is a thought crime, but the meme that's propagating in my head this morning is that instructional design will once again mimic software design. (Where do you think those human performance flowcharts came from anyway?) Read this article about lightweight software development and the surge toward Web 2.0. Now, let me indulge in some cut-and-paste thinking.
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