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42/365 My students get their own space in school moodle

February 11, 2010
42/365 My students get their own space in school moodle

Today I decided to give my Lower Sixth students their own page on the school moodle and set them as teachers. They seem quite enthused by the idea. A place they can customise, get other students to enrol in. Subscribe to their forums so they behave like blogs and they can be moderators. Store...
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40/365 Moodle front pages I like

February 9, 2010
40/365 Moodle front pages I like

I’m including these screenshots as part of my 365 photos. Yes, I know they are not photos but my iPhone shots of screens are rubbish… Over the last few days I have been looking at a few front end Moodle features and thinking about what I would like for our school Moodle. I have...
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39/365 I got played…

February 8, 2010
39/365 I got played…

My class did this today whilst we were disussing something and I had left the remote control software on the board. Clearly the three culprits were off task a little while (my bad) but I loved their ingenuity to use the tools to talk to me. An interesting concept in a lesson – each...
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38/365 The MP3 generation?

February 8, 2010
38/365 The MP3 generation?

Students working in Y12 Physics lesson I am covering. 9 out of 13 are listening to music. One of those is not using an iPod of some sort. Is this a good thing? (obviously this scenario would please Apple) Can concentration levels be maintained? Improved? Posted via email from daibarnes’s posterous
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MA Project – What do YOU think? (please)

February 7, 2010
MA Project – What do YOU think? (please)

I am in the second term of my MA entitled ‘Leading Innovation and Change’ at St Mary’s University College in Twickenham. This module is called ‘Research Methods for Project Enquiry’ and requires I choose a pilot project as a test bed for my ultimate project in the second year. No problem, except I am...
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