Are gimmicks OK if they work? #edtech
In the UK there has been quite a lot of publicity and investigation of Aurasma, one of the first easily accessible ‘augmented reality’ apps, in FE and HE. Thankfully earlier limited versions of the...
View ArticleCoggle, a really Simple Online Mindmap #edtech
There have been a few online Mindmappers that I have liked over the years. https://bubbl.us/ is nice because you can easily make a mindmap without logging in, and it lets you export it as an image....
View ArticleBetter than a twitter feed on your VLE course page #edtech
If you post much on Twitter you have probably come across www.paper.li as it randomly picks up hash-tagged tweets and automatically spins them into a themed newspaper. I have no idea how well it works...
View ArticlePadlet, a really useful, multipurpose tool for teachers #edtech
For years now at our large college we’ve been trying to encourage teachers to use more of the collaborative aspects of Moodle, with little success. Chat rooms become venues for random chatter and...
View ArticleUse #CSS nth-child to Customise #Moodle and other CMS systems #edtech
I love Moodle and WordPress, but with WordPress particularly it is so easy to run the updates, and essential for security, that it makes tweaking the source code problematic. With Moodle the update...
View ArticlePractical teaching tools for use with #Twitter #edtech
Maybe you don’t have access to Moodle, or maybe your students are too cool to use it, so you think that Twitter might work. If so, here are 2 tools that can help. Hootsuite (www.hootsuite.cpm) is the...
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Essential Tip for #WordPress School Website pic.twitter.com/2K7TVNdRRr
About a year ago I was developing a website for my children’s school, setting up the look and feel whilst waiting for some content, when the school contacted me to say it had been hacked. The html...
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Turnitin Direct Plugin Twitter Feed for #Moodle
We have had a Turnitin subscription for several years now and after a very slow beginning it is now quite well embedded in several curriculum areas and stats show a massive increase in online marking...
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Progress Bar, an Essential #moodle Plugin for easy tracking #gamification...
I missed this Plugin for a long time, mainly because for many years it was difficult getting any teachers involved in the systematic use of quizzes which is where this works best. Now we have a few...
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Free SCORM #eLearning Authoring for Diagrams and Picture Dicts #edtech
You can download my scorm compatible Picture Dictionary authoring tool for free here. Parapal Hotspots allows you to take any jpeg image and add interactive regions so students can learn new terms...
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