An FGS Student:Result for a survey of ‘Out of School use of ICT’
June 23, 2010 by chris · Leave a Comment
A typical student from FGS owns a laptop1 and spends four hours a night on their computer during the week. They are skilled at multi-tasking and have MSN or Windows 2 live running with conversations with a number of their friends. They will also have Facebook running at the same time and they will be using the instant messenger aspect of it as well as adding comments on their friend’s sites.
Using a Journal in Moodle
May 24, 2010 by chris · Leave a Comment
The way we have got our ICT lessons organised in Moodle is pretty good. Students have an overview of what they need to do, tutorials where they are needed and layout documents that arrange their answers so that they are aligned to the syllabus and marking schemes. They also have examples of graded and authenticated work by other students so that they can see what a good grade is like. But it is by no means a perfect system especially when it comes to reflecting on and summarising their work
Embed SWF into PowerPoint
January 18, 2010 by chris · Leave a Comment
Embedding swf files (both animations and movies saved as SWF rather than FLV) into powerpoint is not especially easy, but this is the simplest way I have found, discovered by one of my year 11 students and demonstrated by him to the rest of the class.
John Bargh Priming and LMS quiz
December 31, 2009 by chris · Leave a Comment
John Bargh is a Professor of Social Psychology at Yale University. His work has been investigating a phenomenon called ‘Priming’ for a number of years. These experiments are of a practical nature and demonstrate changes in peoples behaviour according to a context they have been primed for. The results are of great significance for practising teachers and offer both technological and non-technological methods of achieving a better classroom experience for students and teachers.
Why are student numbers falling in A level ICT?
December 25, 2009 by chris · Leave a Comment
Numbers of people taking ICT is not falling in KS3 and 4, but it is falling at A level and university. This is not because ICt is in danger of becoming less important in peoples lives, but because of the dull, sterile curriculum we peddle. have a look at http://www.e-skills.com/Research-and-policy/2661 and share it with your colleagues.
The Effect of Online Learning on student progress
September 9, 2009 by chris · Leave a Comment
Meta research into 51 studies of practical research findings
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“The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction”
Moodle Progress Bar
August 17, 2009 by chris · Leave a Comment
Moodle Progress bar |
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| There are two useful and slightly different progress bars that have become available in the last few weeks. The first and simplest is to be found at http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&mode=single&page=373 Read more | |
ToDo list in Moodle and the three part lesson
July 3, 2009 by chris · Leave a Comment
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. Read more
Download Video from the Internet
June 12, 2009 by chris · Leave a Comment
Free Web services for downloading
videos from video-sharing sites
Moodle FLV player
April 24, 2009 by chris · Leave a Comment
For some time I have been downloading flv files from youtube and the like, or more usually going to http://clipnabber.com/ and converting them for use in Moodle. Recently we have used the Moodle flv player and it is great, the advantages of a small file not embedding the file and being at the mercy of a dodgy Internet connection.
Go to http://code.google.com/p/moodle-flv-player/ for details
