The shift to Moodle from Blackboard in our college is more that just an electronic resources transfer, or at least it should be. Here’s a blog (learning for vets) that succinctly focuses on the need for some Cs in elearning. Creativity, Constructionism, Community, Connectivity and Collaboration. And not Content management. It links further to the [...]
Here I am blogging on learning technology when really I should stick with music and learning technology. I’m reticent to dip my toe into the community as I recall posting in the Times Ed music staffroom about my music elearning site, only to be pilloried by a couple of regulars for (1) suggesting that [...]
James Farmer’s presentation ‘What’s Changed’ is very stimulating, if a little unnerving is some ways. It certainly provoked me into reflecting on my way of noodling away with learning technologies.
A key point to come out of it for me was - don’t just use elearning tools, use stimulating elearning tools; create a community of [...]
I made a point in my last post about a teacher-programmer team; finding a working model that gave teachers access to internet technologies without taking 2 years out to re-train as programmers.
My latest collaboration with Chris Savage strengthens this concept I feel. I asked him to create a Flash file that delivered oral questions [...]
I attended a 2 day course - Flash for beginners, run by Andrew Richardson and Matt Rimirez. It was well run and a great learning experience. My approach to making learning materials with Flash has been (and I can’t see it changing) - if you can’t learn it, buy it. Chris Savage [...]
