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The VLE in my life is…

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

So, we start with day one and: The VLE in my life is…. In my fifteen-plus years of EdTech, I’ve used many VLEs; some more than others, some more successful than others too. Whilst I haven’t used Blackboard for a (very) long time, it is still my favourite and least favourite VLE of choice. … complicated!

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Facebook for Educators

Moodle Journal

I have in past postings made both positive and not so positive remarks regarding the use of Facebook as part of course delivery. I also came across this rather large sample of (The teachers guide to using Facebook) Facebook the missing manual from OReilly.

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Using Facebook as a learning platform

eFront

Let’s start this post by stating that Facebook was not actually created as a learning platform, it can however clearly be used to enhance and support elearning. Facebook makes it easy to network and interact with other virtual students, and because most people know how to use Facebook they don’t need to become familiar with a new platform.

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Giving Facebook a try

Moodle Journal

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.

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Facebook for e-Learning

eFront

News from the e-learning frontier Pages Home About Community Free e-Learning Resources Contribute to the e-Learning Community 11/07/2010 Facebook for e-Learning Facebook objective is " to help you connect and share with the people in your life ". 50% of Facebooks active users log on to Facebook in any given day.

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Moodle winterland

Moodle Journal

I have just finished marking some HE test papers and uploaded the results into our Moodle vle. You may well be wondering if had arranged this, well not exactly, but they do all know that if I am out of college then they can usually try this option, but today for extra measure I have messaged them all on Facebook, usually works a treat.

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New Experiments in e-Learning

Moodle Journal

I met with my new first year level 3 students and during the session introduced them to the vle. At the end of the class I suggested that they might like to join my Facebook; so much faster communication than college email for some reason!

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