This is my practice-run at an abstract! The theme is ‘For the learner or by the learner?’ and ‘Individual or Institutional’.
ccmmusic.ning.com is a social network for current and former students and staff of the large music department at City College Manchester, It has been running since September 2007 and sprang out [...]
I’ve mythered my NC Music group constantly about using the web to network, learn, share and promote. I’d like to get a picture of the tools you use so please post your links here to your own sites - myspace, facebook, uniblogs or whatever you use.
It’s coming to the end of the NC Music year; [...]
Inner-city, 19+, creative arts course and all the students are happy and well-balanced? No. Financial, personal, physical health, mental health, emotional, drug, alcohol problems - for starters. Then there’s insecurity, lack of self-esteem, lack of confidence. And in amongst all that we are supposed to ensure retention and achievement. Pass [...]
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 [...]
I’m a new blogger, with very few responses thus far on my blog, but I know that as someone working in learning I should be doing it. I put it off for a long time but once I started the big bell in my little head rung loud and clear.
I blog for myself, primarily. To [...]
