Toady I managed to get5 approval for the third and final level training, which is going to be centered around the design, production and storage of eLearning content. If you have been following this blog recently then you will no doubt have come across my Moodle trading level document that I posted on. features. My ambition here is to encourage everyone to begin designing materials in a form that is more inline with the concept of learning objects as opposed to complete topics or classes, and part one of the course will comprise an introduction to and examples of learning objects. MORE >>

If you would like to see a pdf of the finished product as it stands at the moment, then please follow this link to a pdf , a little untidy as I simply took a screen copy from Moodle to Word Following the trial of our eILT skillset questionnaire for staff, where I ran it past a sample of nearly twenty, this week I applied the finishing touches and launched the survey for real. The initial trial took the form of a paper based exercise that allowed us to evaluate and apply changes to what would become the final electronic form delivered through our Moodle vle. MORE >>

If you would like to know more about Edmodo then I recommend you take a look at their blog , and of course please feel free to reply to this posting if you have any views or experience of what looks could become a very useful and popular product 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. Students on the other hand can belong to multiple groups. MORE >>

So if you find yourself teetering on the edge of getting onvolved with SL, this video should give you some confidence in the likely persistent nature of the product. 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. MORE >>

A very promising visit from another local college of FE and HE with regard to Moodle uptake, it seems almost certain that they will elect to make use of the VLE in favour of other products. am also having some success in the area of six form colleges, with invites to visit IT managers and members of senior management teams on the subject MORE >>