Stones
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them. Williams Arthur Ward I felt this quote was rather pertinent. Technology fails. The Achilles heel of almost all technology advocates is that we …
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Moodle Assignments and Online Marking
For the record, I am an online teaching and learning advocate. I don’t wish to mislead you. So, this Friday afternoon, as I left for home, I witnessed a colleague leaving school struggling with a large, plastic box, overflowing with …
School Closed.
Tonight at 22:30 I posted that Hamble Community Sports College would be closed tomorrow (Wednesday 6th) in 3 different places on our website. Updates to follow daily. It was very quick, I simply turn the front page off, turned school …
Top Ten 10
Ten Commandments of eLearning by Cath Elli. Like many lists, each is pertinent to hersituation. So what would Mike Jenkins (our Moodle guy) and I come up with? 1 Put the pedagogy (not the technology) first Now I agree wholeheartedly …
An Introduction to Skoogle: Personal profile: Kristian still
I am in the process of writing our VLE introduction course based on the very good Moodle Course. I am attempting to make the course more relistic and relevent and most importantly practical. I have added outcomes and a staff …
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 …
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 …