new elearning project
Mark Johnson from Bolton Uni visited us yesterday to introduce me and the class to an elearning project to use Web 2.0 tools for eportfolios. The project is called MANSLE but as I understand it doesn’t exclusively require students to use the Mansle plug-in, but is more generally targeted at enabling students to exploit Web 2.0 tools for their research and personal projects.
The project also ties in the use of the Flock browser (which runs the Mansle plug-in) which I’m finding is such a neat browser for blogging and feeds.
I was concerned that with Mark might go over the heads of my students with uni-speak but he played the proverbial blinder and we were all wowwed. It was great to hear so many of the compelling arguments for using Web 2.0 tools (that I read about so often) expounded in my class room and in releation to my students
First stop was wikispaces and this in itself may prove to be an ideal vehicle for the eportfolios I expect students to build - ‘Roots and Influences’ for Music in Context and ‘Get a Job’ for Music Business. Apart from being a more function-filled interface for writing online than Moodle’s online text assignment, it is, of course, open to the global community, rather than in the walled garden of our college Moodle. It will be interesting to see whether students reach out globally or end up interacting only with themselves and their tutors.
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