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What many teachers have yet to realise is that online games satisfy the basic requirements of learning environments and can provide engaging learning experiences for students
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A big day for me today, I have finally got this blog mobile! I am a moblogger in the extreme, so finding a way to make my blog more accessible to other mobloggers has been a challenge. Using a great free service from mofuse they have provided me the tolkits to make this site accesible [...]
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Today I finally got around to installing Mahara, the new Open Source ePortfolio system from New Zealand on my server. What makes Mahara so special, well let me tell you.
To best summarise what Mahara is about in a succinct paragraph lets her it from Penny Leach, one of Mahara’s developers:
Mahara means to think, thought, reflection [...]
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Any ICT Integrator using Moodle in Aus will be familiar with this issue. The Learning Federation (TLF from now in), a government agency, have been creating a series of Learning Objects. These now number in the hundreds and are becoming a valuable resource for any teacher. but how do we get these into Moodle?
In the [...]
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I have come cross many educators who have different ideas of how their blended learning should be delivered online. Moodle is well known for being based on the pedagogy of social constructivism. The core idea of this being that the social group is constructing things for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared [...]
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ePortfolios have been round for a while now but interest in them has really exploded over the last 24 months. ePortfolio’s are more than just a repository. They are a place for reflection and their audience may vary from peers to mentors to teacher to external visitors with a wide range interests including possible [...]
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The issue of Al Upton’s “Mini Legends” blog closure by DECS has been well followed on the edublogs. The total ability to understand what Al was doing with the technology by bureaucrats at higher level is by no mens new, but Al’s case has certainly highlighted the failings.
This morning Sue Waters posted an update [...]
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If you have not heard of VoiceThreads by now then chances are you have been hiding under a rock.
A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), [...]
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Currently YouTube are in the middle of voting for the 2007 Video Awards. The following video was listed as one of the nominees for most Inspirational video
I hope to put this my staff intranet as I think teachers should definitely watch this. The fact that the video was also created using collaborative tools is also [...]
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Well, I have finally done it and moved myself full steam into the realm of Social Networking and blogging.
How can I educate my teachers on this realm of online communication if i cannot say I have taken the leap myself.
I have followed in the footsteps of my new mentor Chris Betcher (shoosh, i don’t think [...]
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