Here’s a good case study of the implementation of Moodle at Thanet College. Though dated 2006 it still rings a lot of bells if you work in FE. Some highlights: The difficulties that had to be overcome were: 1. Seeing a benefit; ‘if its not broke don’t fix it’ mentality
The Turning Point is a new contributory project to explore the point at which an individual decides to take control of their working life. Tell us about the moment you rejected 9to5… What was your turning point – your Eureka moment, your tipping point, your lightbulb moment – the moment
Following on from Saturday’s newspaper story about Fat Gourg, the 7-year-old’s monster who become an internet craze in France, the story hit the local TV yesterday – and the French fans have already put it up on Youtube. If they had shown the interview they did with me I would
One of the steps to facilitating deeper learning is to get your group of learners to “gel”. Icebreakers and group work can help to get students working together and supporting each others’ learning. This needs to happen in the online environment as much as in the classroom and is one
My project Kids on the Net features today in the Leicester Mercury – and it’s all down to a monster (“Fat Gourg”) created by seven-year-old Luke, during a writing workshop I held in a Leicestershire primary school in March 1999. Starting as one of our many writing ideas for kids
Wordle is a rather beautiful way to display tags – prettier than the usual tag cloud it generates “word clouds” from text that you paste in yourself. Like a normal tag cloud, words that appear more frequently in the source text are bigger. Various colour schemes are available. They can
Robin Hood as a baddy and the Sheriff of Nottingham as the goody? Only in Hollywood! Whatever next? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7460634.stm There are some conventions that it just doesn’t work to play with, something that designers of every kind – and including elearning developers – need to remember. A recent newsletter from
This is a summary by Lynn Tveskov of part of the recent discussion in the Best Practice Models community on Communities of Practice. From here this post is all Lynn’s summary: In the spirit of the practice we are setting up around public blogging about our discussion, I will put
My son is in the middle of GCSEs and I’ve been giving him the best piece of advice I know for success in exams – read the question! It sounds basic, but it is surprising how easy it is, especially in a stressful situation such as an exam, to miss
Tony Karrer and Michele Martin have just announced the launch of Work Literacy – a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work. Their goal, they say, is to “create a