E-Learning
I will keep this brief but its been bothering me since I accepted my post as Director of E-Learning. The more I read about E-Learning the less I see the need to to define the difference between learning with and …
14 Months and I was Back Where I Started (updated)
Since emailing Helen Foster at Moodle, I decided to write this post about why and how we selected Moodle. As this may be shared with other schools and staff considering Moodle as a potential VLE, I updated the content. “Go …
The Netbooks are Coming…
Its not my title, but Mike Herrity’s, but I wanted to continue the theme of his posts. There are three key factors that are driving our decision on which Netbook. 1) Cost 2) Cost only joking, battery life 3) Operating …
Open Minded Part 2
Is FLOSS / open source a viable option for your School? Well we a blended approach has had some significant benefits for us here at Hamble Community Sports College. As for open source is FREE? I don’t intend to swim …
Open Minded Part 1
Since stumbling upon the FLOSS / FOSS Open Source community we now actively seek open source opportunities when looking to innovate. For example, with the exception of our Schools Licensing Agreement (Operating system / OFFICE suite) our main ICT products …
RSS Delivers
For most of my youth, I heard about this annoying characteristic that I possessed: curiosity. When I was younger, it was “Ryan, curiosity killed the cat”. As I got older, it was “Ryan, I’m calling your parents” or “Ryan, go …
Siftables
Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them – piling, grouping, sorting – to interact with digital information and media. Siftables …
Ducks to Water
Today our Moodle technician introduced a small group (9) of Digital Leaders to course creation within Skoogle. We had 9 students, all content with building these ‘Introduction Course’ for their teacher partner. With very little guidance they soon got to …