New job new Moodle busy busy
[caption id="attachment_880" align="alignright" width="300" caption="TBC Moodle"][/caption] So it is that I have started my new job at Tauranga Boys' College. I am now a teacher of Year Nine and Ten Social Studies, covering New Zealand history at the moment and Year 11 Geography and History. One of my year Ten classes is a laptop class, 29 students with nice shiny Macbooks. This week we have been charting the voyage of Captain Cook to New Zealand which we have done with iStopmotion, a great little piece of software and also meant we could familiarise the boys' with the machines again after the holidays ...
The business end of the year
So we come to the time of the year where assessments are due and option choices must be made for the future. It is about now that my Seniors are getting bored with me talking exam techniques or getting them to hand in work on time. But I will continue to do so until November when it will be up to them. It is also now that I find the students use Moodle and elearning more than any other time in the year. You see despite the fact that the notes have been on Moodle all year many have just ...
Theming Moodle
Now despite Kelvin telling me that I am not allowed to change things anymore I am a firm believer in innovate or die and if I don't continually play with Moodle it bores me and the kids so I figured why not have a bit of a play around with the Newbury College themes created by Shaun Daubney moodle@newbury-college.ac.uk. These themes are highly customisable and all I have done is changed the background colour, link highlights and some of the images and links. Now I guess I can get rid of some of the messy menus that have been ...
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New job new Moodle busy busy
TBC Moodle So it is that I have started my new job at Tauranga Boys’ College. I am now a teacher of Year Nine and Ten Social Studies, covering New Zealand history at the moment and Year 11 Geography and History. One of my...
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