ToDo list in Moodle and the three part lesson
Creating a T0-Do list in Moodle
Using Moodle Calendar to create a To-Do list for organising lessons and study sessions. This helps in creating a more formal structure to VLE based lessons beloved of OFSTED and helps the students to be more in control of their learning and to organise their time more carefully.
Youtube - ‘why do we have to do ICT’
I ran a survey before Christmas on the schools Moodle asking two different sets of classes their motives in ICT. Those students who had chosen to do ICT as an exam subject, commiting 3 or 6 hours a week, and those who did one hour a week as a compulsory subject. I asked the volunteers (among other things) ‘Why had they chosen ICT as a subject’ a large majority gave variations on ‘ It is important for the/my future’ Read the story »
UK National Repository getting closer
The National Repository
The big news is the imminent arrival of a national repository of free resources for VLEs, The great thing about it is that is not a product of central government or any of its supporting quango’s and satellites, but it has been created by the North West Learning Grid who provided the VLE based materials for DiDA and the OCR Nationals.
Informed Speculation
Youtube - ‘why do we have to do ICT’
I ran a survey before Christmas on the schools Moodle asking two different sets of classes their motives...
Derbyshire ICT Subject Leaders Conference
Thursday 16th October 2008 A very useful discussion that continued after I left. As most schools in...
Embedding Sound in PowerPoint 2000/XP
My students are creating a multimedia presentation using PowerPoint 2000. The sound they insert works...
Using a VLE with an exam syllabus - OCR Nationals in ICT
The KS4 qualification that occupies most of my time is the OCR Nationals in ICT. In common with most...
Web 2.0
Adobe.com- challenging Google docs
WWW.adobe.com joins https://www.photoshop.com/express as part of a developing stable of online apps...
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Research for the Busy EducationalistGoogle Alerts and its related Blog Search Gadget are extremely useful research tools that require no day-to-day attention. Set up...
Online scheduling - DoodleHave you ever received an email saying, ‘ we must meet to discuss….’ and then the difficult process starts of saying...
Classroom and Network monitoringThe bane of my existence is students running ‘Youtube’ or a game behind the work they are supposed to be doing. I move...
