May 27 2006
Delicious Links
May 24 2006
Aarargghhh…need to stop messing with Moodle
Instead of writing my outline to my assignment, I am continually messing around and improving my Moodle WBLE. With a real student using the course and giving me feedback everyday, it has been more than invaluable especially when trying to be specific with what the aims of the course are and what the student sees as the aims.
Added a LiveStats Block just for the fun of it, and managed to translate it from Danish! Hopefully will build up enough blocks to be able to hide and show them in a random way so that users do not get bored with the site. Also hope to javascript the FrontPage image so that it changed between four of five different similar logos.
Dissapointing only a couple of Masters Students have had a look, but understandable considering the assignment deadline. Will have to send Quickmail to remind them! Need to check out any login problems too!
May 24 2006
Delicious links for 2006-05-24
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Its working but do you like it, do you think it will work?
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GCSE students some great web design help and advice here, and also how to design a logo
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First computer game ever? Fascinating and download an emulator!
May 22 2006
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Hello, I am Anand Sharma and this section of my site is my [we]blog. I am currently 16 – a junior in High School in Southern California (Glendale/Los Angeles to be specific). I consider web design my profession and photography my hobby.
May 17 2006
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“Accessibility” is used to describe how easy something is for everybody to use, regardless of impairment or disability.It is important for web designers to understand what can make sites difficult for some people to access, and what we can do to make
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Usability generally describes two different areas:* How easy a product is to use
* The industry & discipline concerned with measuring ease-of-use
May 16 2006
Groups…
Well in between marking and other school stoof, managed to begin to get back to Moodle and MA work. Have finally worked out how to use the Groups mechanism within a course, so will now be able to allow AS students and my Masters colleagues to both use the same course but not affect or bump into each other. Fabulous.
Have remembered that I wanted to use 3dMMS as a way of showing an entertaining way to introduce the course, with me as a kind of 3d animation. Probably not worth the pain, but…….
Have found a few sites that I am jealous of their way of theming Moodle, and will definitely after this project have to look into the CSS styling of Moodle in a better way. And beyond that maybe clearing out the clutter of a Moodle site as here
Also found a pod-casting Module that is being developed….always something new to distract my attention….
May 16 2006
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Readability TestsGunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid are reading level algorithms that can be helpful in determining how readable your content is. Reading level algorithms only provide a rough guide, as they tend to reward short sente
May 11 2006
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George Siemens with a very interesting Presenatation and Podcast thang
May 10 2006
Well another Module almost over….
As someone suggested this one seemed to go faster than the first Module. Maybe the very large practical element to the course might have meant that this seemed more enjoyable but harder work..now comes the assignment -aarrghhh!
Must start setting targets I think:-
1) Add final assignment, lessons. Check marking scheme is working. Check Gismo finally works. Sort out groups so that different groups can use course at same time without knowing. Javascript frontpage image so different ones show?
2)Finish finally the Moodle course by 16/05, and then email and publicise to Masters Students.
3) Select one teacher and one student to do walk-through -although this will be artificial as course is meant to be summer course. Walkthroughs finished by 18/05
4)Outline for assignment with headings to Karon 23/05
Hmmm thats enough targets for me now.
May 7 2006
Initial Student Feedback…
Well have begun introducing the environment to the students. As this is going to be used as a blended environment sat down and demoed the Moodle environment and how to log-on etc. Then sent students away to log-on and play with the environment and then fill in a simple questionnaire about the design and layout of the site. Check out the .pdf to see a quick analysis of the comments.
Questionaire results for design and navigation
Has some nice early indicators and I seem to have at least made the site workable on a small 12″ monitor with low resolution if nothing else. Gismo the student tracker is not working at the moment..which I will need to look into.
Unfortunately as the course is meant to be summer based I do not think it will be easy for me to say if learning and the quality of learning that has taken place? Will use one student who has more time e.g. not a GCSE student to do a complete run through over a period of a couple of days and then use him to produce at least some kind of indication.
Must setup the course so other Masters students can have a go, maybe will copy course and change questionnaires to reflect this so can get feedback from a different section of users, even if ones that the course and Moodle were not designed for.
On a completely different note talked to a few students about pod-casting as I had placed a pod-cast for use as a revision tool (not made by me I hasten to add) and discussion was interesting whether this would be a tool most students would like to use? Will need further investigation.
May 4 2006
Delicious links and IE gripes..
Well at the moment in constant battles to try and get both the Moodle and the Studentblog to be cross browser compliant and also able to be viewed on the smallest monitor with bad resolution. To put it bluntly its a nightmare. And I think a process that will take a lot longer than the weekend. And the weekend is the final amount of time I am giving myself to solve usability issues and also finish off the actual course, lessons and questionaires so that test pupils can try the course in a blended setting on Sunday and during next week.
Will then need to start following up with analysis of usage and learning using a few different evaluation techniques. Hopefully the following:-
*Expert walk through from another ICT Teacher – with analysis from questionaires and interview.
*Sample usage from selected group of students – maximum of 5. With feedback from course questionaire and ‘gizmo’ addin module of advanced usability statistics. And scores on the doors from the course marking in Moodle.
*Heuristic analysis – which to use I do not know yet.
*Review of comments from posting site for other Masters students.
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A screencast is a digital movie that shows an animated computer screen recording, with an audio narration.
Apr 30 2006
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Coming of Age: An introduction to the NEW worldwide web is a free download in PDF format and is about 2MB. You are encouraged to pass it on to anyone you think will be interested or will benefit.
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Digital Dissertations, Copyright, and Fair Use. Interesting as I always wondered why dissertations these days still have to be just print – and then the issue of CC and fair use causes problems
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New research from Dr Tech
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New research from Dr Tech
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