When the Flu strikes E-Learning comes into its own.
As the whole family has now had the flu it has been a decidedly average week. It has however been a good chance to use Moodle to set my class their work and still give feedback without being there. Our Year 11 History site has been used extensively while I have been away, coupled with plentiful access to our school owned laptops I can make sure that we are still on track for finishing this unit this term. I can see when the Pandemic mania was at its height a week ago why some schools looked at having a few ...
Unlock Moodle Potential
One of the effects of the latest flu pandemic is that a school can be shut down at anytime. Our particular school policy states that we will provide materials online while students are away so that they may continue with their studies. Unfortunately in a practical based subject that is a little difficult and rather than reinvent the wheel I went trolling for links to existing material. I have to say that Workshop Technology is not well represented online in New Zealand, something I would like to rectify given the time. What I did find were these videos showing the ...
Moodle Glossary Import
Moodle Glossary Import How to import glossaries into moodle from a text file in bulk. Using an xml converter. Add a Moodle Glossary Then click on import entries you then need to set up your import file. Do this in excel or open office. Text in one column then definition in the next, I have just used numbers as I will get my students to edit these later. Then we need to run the xml converter down load this from moodle.org http://moodle.org/ You paste the text in the left hand window then click convert at the bottom of the page. Then hight light the text on ...
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OECD Factbook eXplorer
This is probably more up Richards alley but I can’t help thinking how much more interesting Geography A level might have been with resources like this. Check out the video on the BBC website and visit http://stats.oecd.org/oecdfactbook/. Read More →
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Google Apps – Round up
Well biggest decision of this year (at school!!) was what to do with a aging Mail Server and should we go Google School. Finally the decision was really made for me as: 1. Staff and students were already using personal gmail addresses...
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PHPMotion Redux
Back in April 2008 I did a post on a YouTube clone called PHPMotion which was then in version 1. The software is now in version 3 and we have just installed it on our school server. The latest version is still a bit of a pain...
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What was the better lesson?
So yesterday I spent time preparing a lesson for my year 11 History class. The reasons being two-fold one, I had an observation lesson for my appraisal and I always like to show some technology off and two, It’s nearly the...
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