FOTE 11 – future of technology in education

October 7, 2011 Posted by Brian Lake under Conferences, Featured
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Hello everyone, We’ll be blogging from London today for the annual FOTE conference – future of technology in education. This is an annual event that attracts 350 elearning experts from around the UK. It is an excellent opportunity to share best practice and learn about what other colleges and universities are doing well, and how…


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JISC Moodlefest, Guildford College, July 20

July 20, 2011 Conferences, Featured
Hello all, Writing from home today, Guildford College! We are hosting Moodle Fest 2011 on behalf of JISC. All sessions will be recorded today, so they’ll be available from here soon. Update: videos available here: http://bit.ly/moodlefest1 http://bit.ly/moodlefest2 The first session is myself. I gave a brief overview of our transition to Moodle from Blackboard and…
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iPad mobile event: George Abbot School, Surrey

June 23, 2011 Conferences, Featured, iphone, Mobile Learning
Hello all! Blogging from George Abbot school today. We’ll be looking at the use of iPads in education and deployment via our mobile learning forum Session is being run today by Simon Birch -- Solutions Inc Apple reseller. They do a fair bit of apple sales in the education sector. Simon is focused on teaching…
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LSN-LRI Technology for learning workshop, Cambridge College

June 15, 2011 Conferences, Featured
Good morning all, I’ll be blogging from the Cambridge LSN-LRI technology for learning workshop today. I’ll be giving highlights from each session, and videoing a session or two for those who have expressed interest in particular sessions, especially ILP. As a starting point, it is worth nothing that several other colleges in attendance are using…

MoodleMoot 2011 – day 2

April 20, 2011 Conferences, Featured
Hello all – day two of Moodlemoot UK. Open university of Israel. Interesting item on the “scroll of death” – Moodle courses tend to be flat – if it is extensive, it tend to go on, and on, and on. They’ve used collapsible content items to address this. New activities Files activities video record activity…

Blogging from MoodleMoot 2011

April 19, 2011 Posted by Brian Lake under Conferences, Featured
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Hi all, Blogging from MoodleMoot 2011 today. Morning session covered a fair amount about data migration and Sharepoint integration for portals. Current presentation is from Ross Mackenzie – open university Moving the open University to Moodle 2.0   Clear visual difference between Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 was desired to help you know where you are.…

Presenting Moodle to the Curriculum Manager’s Meeting

March 7, 2011 Posted by Brian Lake under Featured, Learning Technologies, Mobile Learning, Web Services Blog

I presented the results of our Strategic VLE review recently, the result of several months of research and effort. We concluded that Moodle offered the best means of taking the mission of the College forward, combining the great work being done by teachers with an easy to use and well supported learning resource. Some of…

Blogging from JISC Havant Moodle Forum

February 9, 2011 Posted by Brian Lake under Conferences, Featured, Mobile Learning
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Morning all.  Blogging from Havant College today on Moodle. JISC hosts these forums regularly and we like to get out to see how others are implementing Moodle,  and what issues they have to address. 10am – the moring starts with students talking about their experience of Moodle. Forums are a popular tool with students, especially…

Blogging from BETT – London, Jan 2011

January 17, 2011 Posted by Brian Lake under Featured, Learning Technologies, Mobile Learning, Resources
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Hi All, Back to publishing here, and we’ve got some interesting tidbits from BETT 2011. I wasn’t expecting much from the show, so rather than lose time on projects I need to finish, I sauntered up on a Saturday for a look. I was in for a bit of a surprise. Last year, I was…

Blogging from appsworld

November 30, 2010 Posted by admin under Conferences, iphone, Learning Technologies, Mobile Learning, Web Services Blog

Hugh will be attending appsworld today to find out what’s new in app development. For more information on the event check out the apps world website, the blog or Twitter #appsworld. PS I was intending to blog during the day but relied on the WordPress iPhone app. I created a post, saved it and published…

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