Learning and Teaching with ICT

Today’s workshop was on Moodle. After a brief introduction and opportunity to experience some online quizes, we have been asked to reflect on the following questions:

How do you think Moodle can support student learning?
Will you use Moodle in your classroom?

I think Moodle can support student learning in a number of ways. Firstly, it can assist [...]

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Today a group of students ran a great workshop on edublogs. They created a page about blogging with educblogs on the CEGSA website http://cegsa.editme.com/blogs
Part of the practical part of thworkshop was to respond to the following questions on our own blog:

Do you think Edublogs is a tool that you would use as an educator? If [...]

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Great video

more about "TeacherTube Videos – A Vision of K-12…", posted with vodpod

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Just came across this Slide share presentation from Melanie McBride on the best approach school boards (and similar organisations) can take to web 2.0. Steven Downs suggests thtat “the summary of approaches (slide 41) and the Howard Rheingold pic (slide 48) should be blown up and made into a poster”.
Beyond Blocking: Embracing the Social Web
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I just found this and think it has some valid points for presenters, especially teachers who use PowerPoint for teaching.

more about "TeacherTube – How NOT To Use PowerPoint", posted with vodpod

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Here is a test post

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John Travers has shared this example of how he is using Diigo as an assessment tool to provide feedback and manage students’ comments in his Mulitmedia literacy topic. Pretty cool stuff that makes use of sticky notes and bookmarks.

more about "Teacher feedback with Diigo", posted with vodpod [...]

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Now this looks interesting especially for language teachers. This example is from the Box of Tricks blog. I found it from an automated Google alert that I have on interactive whiteboards. I love pull technology! I also liked Voki as this was another tool with potential to make learning inclusive for younger students that prefer [...]

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more about "Learning to Change-Changing to Learn", posted with vodpod

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I have been playing about with Diigo and checking out the fantastic bookmarks identified in different networks. In particular, I discovered the 101 free learning tools slideshare by Zaid Ali Alsagoff from Malaysia. I think this would be useful to highlight to my students as many enjoyed exploring the list of tools included on a [...]

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