Moodle Journal

JULY 8, 2011

I was at little gathering recently when I overheard a conversation between delegates from a college who had apparently made the case that engagement and achievement would be improved simply by providing students with access to the very latest technologies. Is it being seriously suggested that we have it wrong with teaching and learning?

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Moodle Journal

MAY 26, 2012

I was asked this week to provide a short session on using our Moodle vle for the for our end of year Teaching and Learning Conference here at the College. But, it will never change the definition of and need for great teaching.'

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Moodle Journal

JULY 3, 2013

This week is when I get the chance to evangelise to staff the benefits if adopting an eLearning – Online learning, Blended learning – Flipped learning component to courses. But then as with now, you try to leverage the advantages, and if time is an issue, then it becomes time saving that you call in as the sweetener.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 28, 2011

I guess my first impressions are that we should introduce the technology to one of our media courses and see if we can start to make use of the mobile activity / learning potential, but that needs some thinking into at the meeting.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 12, 2011

You can certainly see the rationale here, when you have group of students where course delivery has increasingly drawn in the use of the technology in both teaching and learning style, suddenly get themselves dropped back into pre-digital, though not impossible, does take some degree of willing flexibility.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 20, 2014

The theme was connecting online for collaborative learning and teaching through Second Life. The live presentations included speakers reflective process on teaching and learning in fully online and blended learning formats. We also had recordings on WizIQ, Google Drive, YouTube, and Vimeo.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

To quote from the site Learning Learning is a collection of blog posts and articles all around eLearning. It uses the Browse My Stuff technology to create this topic hub. There are a variety of ways you can Participate in the eLearning Learning community. looks like a good project, pay a visit by following this link

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Moodle Journal

MAY 8, 2012

The whole idea of flipping has become a popularised term for a practice not entirely new, but through which we can certainly leverage technology to effectively push learning away from the more traditional taught environment and into a more distributed style.

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you pay a visit (teleport) over to my sim at Shimmer Island , you see that essentailly all I am trying to do here explore and develop Second Life as an extension to any other learning technology.

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Moodle Journal

APRIL 29, 2008

I received an email recently describing a new content repository from the Worcester College of technology, its called MrCute and is intended to be an optional add-on to the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment. More specifically, it extends the functionality of the IMS Repository system originally developed by Alton College, UK.

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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. All the projects will commence during this coming summer term. If you have any similar experiences or views on eProjects then please feel free to comment. regards Barry

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2011

It's a new kind of learning environment that goes beyond the LMS. It’s open to everyone, easy to use, and completely free — and it's making an amazing impact on education.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 8, 2007

Starting Monday 12th March ULCC are running London's first Online Conference looking at Web2 Technologies supporting 'personalisation' called LEON (London e-Learning Online Network).

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 21, 2006

I presented at the Greenwich University Diverse Practices, Common Futures e-learning conference today and it seemed to be really well received. This is encouraging as I shall be using the case study as the foundation for our JISC bid, more on that to come.

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Conference Case Study Moodle Diversity Training 100

Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

We have an experienced subject specialist team delivering a wide range of software technologies that include VBA, VB6, C, Java, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP and SQL, and find attracts motivated students with an ambition for Software Development. Anyway here is my response. A bit Just a tad more that 50.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 10, 2014

Not sure really weer am with the idea of Game Based Learning (GBL),but then I have yet to try it out. Sure I have been using both Second Life and OpenSim for some years now, but they are for me simulations not games. And so I was pleased stumble across a web site that offered an planning toolkit.

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 31, 2012

The other day I received an email from our Technology department asking if I could install some new eLearning materials onto the vle for them, which naturally I was more than pleased to both do and also take the opportunity to review.

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