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This is my presentation for Teachmeet Edtechroundup Edition #TMETRU09 For more information on Teachmeet visit www.teachmeet.org.uk for more info on Edtechroundup visit http://edtechroundup.wikispaces.com/ You can see info (and some recordings) of my previous Teachmeet contributions here Both are fantastic CPD communities and opportunities and it’s great to see the two concepts joined together for an …
Continue reading “A few ways teachers and students use our VLE (Edtechroundup Teachmeet)”
Each year for the last 4 years I’ve taught surveys and databases to my year 7 class.We used to start off by creating a spreadsheet with columns for name, age, favourite food and send all the students wandering around the classrooms to collect details from their friends.Next we went on to make a survey on …
Continue reading “The end of a great data project using Google Docs and Moodle”
Sorry there is no part 3: The ugly but do take a look at part one of this story here Welcome to part 2. In part one I described the frustrations of trying to build up a course on our VLE on e-safety. Here’s how my course ended up looking Before we got to the …
Continue reading “VLEs, Cyberbullying and year 7 – part 2: The Good”
Starting things up again, like a new VLE, takes time. More time than even a pessimist like me expected! So here’s a little summary of what we’ve done over the last few weeks and what we plan to do. I’m not sure this will be exciting reading but it may be of use to other …
Continue reading “Setting up VLE staff accounts, permissions and roles”
Another year older another year wiser, so the old adage goes. The problem with that adage is that technology moves so fast you might be wiser in one aspect but have completely missed out on something brand new that’s just come out. I try not to let that worry me though as if the new …
Continue reading “Reflection – 1 year of Rickypedia, a pilot VLE”
After a year of our pilot VLE and a few years teaching ICT I was eager to hear the opinions of the students. I hear lots of little student comments and gripes during my lessons in the ICT suite. Most of them are “why has so and so got a better computer than me” pointing …
Our Rickypedia VLE is still very much a pilot website with only a selection of students and teachers on the system. I’ve added new students and classes as I’ve been ready to experiment with them or as I have had requests from other teachers. One of our student teachers (or beginning teachers as they are …