Moodle

Apr 15 2006

Finally Easter holiday is here ..so…

..I have started on the themes for Moodle and messing around with CSS styles. So heres my first screenshots with the road background banner that I use in my blogs. Have’nt added titles or logos yet..ooops. Have also stumbled across a great collaborative Web 2.0 style spreadsheet that can be embedded in Moodle called NumSum which I will be adapting for the users to interact with in one of the collaborative assignments.

Realised I am probably trying the opposite to most people, and trying to make the site as busy as possible. Mainly trying to follow the principle that everythign should be connected to somewhere else, and that the site should lead to students understanding such ideas as ‘tagging’, ‘social bookmarking’, ‘community blogging’ and the like. Next 10 days should be free so that I can get alot of work done, if not now then never. As I say…
Will finally start my screencasting trials tommorrow, as my cold and sore throat are departing finally. Found another good link over at Educause about screencasting which would you believe contains an actual scenario being used…wowweee…here it is.

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Apr 5 2006

GCSE Projects and Screencasting!

Well not getting very far with my ‘WIBBLY’ at the moment, mainly due to the final two weeks of students handing in their GCSE and AS Level projects. So unfortunately most nights are spent marking projects to hand back for improvements!

Have managed to start looking at screencasting following advice related to this. Have tried the use of Macromedia Captivate before but always found it a little clunky and formal to use. Tonight managed to try out Camtasia’s latest screencorder along with Wink. Actually very impressed with Camtasias version seemingly easy to use and has many features including adding little quiz questions, buttons and effects…and much much more. A very valuable resource was the article at O’Reilly check it here

Specifically I like the different examples showing use of screendrawing, and more creative ideas. Will probably try a variety of ways. BIGGEST problem seems to be stopping myself laughing and making sure the screencasts are short and to the point! At least my students will hopefully not complain about my American accent as they have done when using any other screencasts I have shown them from the web!

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Mar 27 2006

Not getting very far ..fast!!!!!

Well have managed to finish my content map, sorry will upload it again at another time. And am reasonably satisifed with the the layout and variety of the course and aspirations for constructivist learning, communities of practice and hopefully the world of connectivism….so many big educational words but hopefully they will mostly mean a better educational experience for my AS students. I am worried I will not be able to get any actual testing with the students began before evaluation, especially as it is meant to be a 6 unit course taken over a summer holidays?

I am now trying to concentrate on making Moodle them well, so that the site becomes an integrated whole and linsk with the blog I use for the students. I am surprised in one way at the flexibility of moodle and absolutely love ‘the community of practice’ – yes one that works that helps at every corner. However trying to them Moodle so that it is functional but different is tricky…..keep on watching what happens over at ConstructICTism Moodle.

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Mar 16 2006

FirstClass server problems….

Well that was fun did we all feel panic at not being able to login to First Class the other night. The pleasures of firewalls and distance learning? Well it gave me time to setup a few more things on this blog. Note there is now a link to my Moodle setup(Bottom right) , which at the moment is no more than Moodle being installed and me messing around with a few things. There is also a link to my Del.icio.us tags (Bottom right) if you are enjoying the RSS feeds page….
     

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