At the MoodleMoot 21 I presented on the Escape Games that I’ve developed within Moodle, particularly Sarah’s Secrets, an escape game used for Induction in Autumn 2020 by over 1300 students. Here is the presentation. Sarah’s Secrets for MoodleMoot
You’ve probably heard of Escape Rooms – where small groups of people are “locked” in a physical room and have to solve a series of puzzles to escape. You can find them all over the world. Escape games are a development, where you’re not actually locked in a room. They
My aims for Digifest (https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/digifest-12-mar-2019) were to find out A bit more about digital literacy and initiatives to improve digital skills Horizon scanning – what’s coming up? How Microsoft Teams (and other Microsoft offering for education) are being used Joel Bloomfield from Microsoft talked about Microsoft’s ambitions for the future
I’ve been looking for some genuine evaluation of Microsoft Teams versus Moodle. I know that there is a lot that people like about Teams that Moodle (at least our version) can’t do, such as the incorporation of chat, notifications, everything streamed together… But has anyone done a proper comparison? Googling
We are the very model of a modern university
We come from many disciplines and represent diversity
We know the kings of England, and we order books historical
And digital resources, too, in order categorical
We’re very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
We understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
We teach and offer services financial and professional
About our student outcomes we are more or less obsessional
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We’re very good at teaching and supporting learners earnestly
Yet due to UUK and their new pension scheme perversity
We face retirement poverty and monet’ry adversity
We are the very model of a modern university
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We spend our time in labs elucidating vital science
Yet today we’re here on picket lines expressing our defiance
Now you’d think the brightest minds deserve the best in actuarial
But when I see the calculations they just make me very ill
We’ve come from health and geography, the arts and sociology
The least that USS can do is offer an apology
To researchers and admin staff, to IT and careers folk
It seems that UUK see us as little more than just a joke
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You’d think that our hard work would earn us thanks and good intentions
But it seems our dedication now is hardly worth a mention, so
We face retirement poverty and monet’ry adversity
What IS the very model of a modern university?
Sometimes it can seem like a year is nothing but bad, and 2017 was a bit of a difficult one in many ways, not just for me but for many around me. So I took some time to reflect on my year and make a list of 17 things that
Deep in Robin Hood country, in the very middle of England, and surrounded by aristocratic estates, there’s a cave-lined limestone gorge full of incredible Ice Age archaeological evidence. The caves have survived millions of years of upheaval, collisions of continents and Ice Age glaciers coming to within 20 miles, but
Apparently there is a quote in the Talmud that goes: First learn, then teach. I would go further: First learn, then teach, then carry on learning!
My learning technology posts can mostly be found on the University of Nottingham Learning Technology blog. Note that some Moodle features that I write about are written by University of Nottingham developers specifically for the University and are not (yet?) available for other Moodle users. Latest Moodle Help Sheets added
My learning technology posts can now mostly be found on the University of Nottingham Learning Technology blog. Note that some Moodle features that I write about were developed by the University of Nottingham specifically for the University and are not (yet?) available for other Moodle users. Moodle – sorting types