I’ve been working on some interactive Flash exercises for my boy’s school. He is 6. The exercises are designed to help with the (chore of) weekly spellings. Username = saint, password = stephens. Audio reads the question – ‘can you spell…’ student types the answer, Flash file checks the answer and [...]
I did a review of the logs in Moodle for my course today and the overwhelming winners (most hits and posts) are the pages with video and audio recordings of the students’ own creative work. They simply love to review their creative achievements, and get feedback from the community.
Pages related to music language and research [...]
I was always enthusiastic and optimistic about Moodle coming to our institution this year, but I under estimated its potential. Checking the logs after 8 weeks of term the hits on the pages that feature recordings of student work are phenomenal. These are either mp3s of music students have created using Cubase, or video recordings [...]
The song for November is Don’t Lay a Finger by Epiphany. This is a new, young band – listen and comment; what do you like, how could they improve? I’ve labelled sections for reference, but what do I know? Visit them on myspace.
I woke up to a revolution this morning – or it certainly looks like it. On this ublearnin post I came across a new site called In The Chair. I can’t try it as there is no Mac version yet, but the site and the demo video look awesome and totally convincing. Its selling point [...]
