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Anyone in the world It has been a while since you've heard from me, but that's mainly because I've been keeping busy... still, where did the time go?
I attended the Ascilite conference with Stuart (goodness, it was last year!). It was really very fascinating to see how e-learning is used and regarded at a tertiary rather than primary/secondary level. I was most interested in the education in Second Life sessions (of course, haha), and Stuart even has me looking into Sloodle now.
After a very busy and full family Christmas I attended the Auckland RSCDS Summer School, and straight from that into my work here at e-asTTle working on their Moodle site.
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Anyone in the world Yes, we will be at ULearn this year !
Although we are really busy, we are making time to attend ULearn - as we get so many teachers asking us if we will be there.
At this stage I think myself and Miriam will be there - which makes sense as she is leading our MoodleSchool project !
We are both giving workshops / presentations - and we're really looking forward to meeting everyone 
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Anyone in the world I'm really happy that our "MoodleSchool Onsite" professional development package is now more widely available.
We have been working with a number of schools like this during 2009, so it's great that we are now able to expand this programme
- Schools in NZ can now book Miriam to work on-site to support your e-learning and ICT professional development strategy
- She can work with staff in groups, or one-to-one (ideal for busy senior management)
- We keep things flexible and hours are negotiated to suit your school
- Miriam is awesome, and is able to cover a huge range of ICT staff development including Moodle, e-learning pedagogy and design, Office applications (e.g. Microsoft Office and Open Office), Google Docs, Graphics (Photoshop, GIMP, and others), emerging Web 2.0 technologies (Flickr, Facebook, etc.), online gaming e.g. Second Life
- It's flexible, it's cost-efficient, and it's effective !
For full details of this service see the "MoodleSchool Onsite" information page here
We know this is going to be really popular - and any school that wants this in place for 2010 should be talking to us now!
[ Modified: Friday, 28 August 2009, 03:57 PM ] |
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Anyone in the world Every time I sit down to do MoodleSchool stuff I get entrenched in a whole lot of fascinating reading. From the NZ Curriculum website I clicked on a link that took me to an article entitled "How to be successful" by Stephen Downes. There are many things in that article I see as useful tools for teaching.
Then, a few clicks later, I came across "Laptops in lectures" by Tony Bates. A much shorter article that brings up a few interesting points - Are students mutli-tasking on their laptops in lectures because they are unfocused? Are the laptops to blame? Or is the blame on the teacher for not utilising this tool more effectively?
Basically, my head gets full of all these great ideas and concepts, then I have to focus myself back down to what I was actually meant to be doing! The Internet is so vast it sometimes blows my mind. Now back to thinking about the educational uses of such a mind-blowingly huge resourse!
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Anyone in the world The school holidays are coming, and it's stress-free time when I can get some work done because I'm not... working. Hmm. I'll be investigating some places I can go that are away from home where I can get wireless Internet for free / cheap. I believe my local library might be a good place to start. I always find it easier to concentrate when I'm not at home, where there are far too many distractions / comforts.
I've been having a play on elearning.school.nz with all the non-standard blocks, filters, plugins and modules that Moodle supports. Loads of fun! Especially Mediabird Study Notes - I can see this being useful in any Moodle course! If you want to see any of these non-standard features in action before going ahead and installing them on your Moodle site, go and sign up with eLearning and have a good ol' play.
[ Modified: Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 08:25 PM ] |
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