Archive for the 'elearning' Category

Elearning at Mid Cheshire College

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Web tools for teaching and learning
(to support the new creative industries diplomas)
Your assessment question: how will web tools promote learning in your curriculum area? (Reply to this blog post!)
New Diplomas refocus on core elements of learning:

team working
independent enquiry
self-management
reflective learning
effective participation
creative thinking.

These are traditional educational values!
But we live in a [...]

For the learner or by the learner?

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

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 [...]

Online learning - an introduction

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

These are notes from my session with Performing Arts, 27th February 2008.
Online learning – getting started
Session outcomes:
• Identify uses for online learning in your teaching.
• Find help for your own Moodle development.
What is Moodle?
Moodle is a virtual learning environment (VLE) or Learning Management System (LMS). It is an [...]

looking forward

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

It is a time of tremendous change in education and music. I guess it always is, but the here and now feels particularly exciting. I find that what I want to do - the work I feel passionately about - and what I have time to do don’t match up, let alone juggling [...]

Music Educators’ blogs

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Joe Pisano at musictech.net is an incredibly proactive blogger! I’m most grateful for his dedicated work and humbled that he’s including me is his project to build a community of music education bloggers. He is a real community guy, not only publishing his own reflections but contributing to the conversations around the music [...]