Audio marking in Moodle Marking presentations which asked students to use any application from: powerpoint openoffice animoto sliderocket google apps Pupils asked to upload finished presentation to Moodle course/assignment. One file upload with notes.
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The Challenge: Spreading ICT throughout a school I was inspired to write this by Kerry Turner as a response to her blogpost engaging-teachers-in-the-use-of-ict. This is my response (and a bit more) to the difficult question: …to continue the theme of *partnerships* started in #ETRU (http://edtechroundup.com) and on twitter, I think it is vital you...
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BBC Schools News Report Day journalists for a day All articles to be uploaded to a website I made using Google sites and inviting a technically minded member of each group. http://sites.google.com/site/stbenedictsbbcschoolreport/
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Redesigning Moodle theme My moodle sandpit holds the reworked theme based on EduMoodle (http://edumoodle.veloxserv.co.uk/moodle/file.php/1/EduMoodle.zip). http://digabites.co.uk It has been fun and interesting to change the colour scheme and set the menus and manipulate images suitable to the theme. I’ve been thinking recently that scrolling news is not so important for the front page of your...
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Science. Year 9. Illegal drugs. Double lesson: 1hr 20 mins. 1 week to prepare. Read through text book material. Collate digital resources onto IWB flipchart (http://search.creativecommons.org). Think of hooks: the drugs don’t work, they just make it worse (The Verve, Urban Hymns 1997). Learning objectives (mine): 1. Understand what illegal drugs are 2. To...
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So where are we now? I have opened negotiations/a dialogue with the HOD Maths in my school to discuss how we might use moodle to enhance what his department already offers. This HOD runs a tight ship and he and his teachers work very hard so he is understandably cautious before signing them up...
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