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I have just read ‘Large-scale Open Source E-Learning Systems at The Open University UK’ by Sclater (2008). This year I am going to be involved in developing a VLE (virtual learning environment) at a new sixth form college. I was pleased to hear they chose Moodle and after reading this paper I am even happier
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Last week we started a GCSE maths course with Year 9, so I took the opportunity to experiment! Based on a suggestion in Moodle Docs for Moodle’s Glossary module I thought we’d have a go at a collaborative glossary. I found a fairly extensive list of key words for maths and gave each student a
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Whilst researching the above question for my H800 course I found the following interesting blog post from the Educational Paradigms blog: Teaching Is Not About Knowing (Anymore) I think this quote summarises the post very well: It’s not about knowing. It’s about pointing the way and providing the tools (for students to create, learn, succeed).
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A Mighty Number Falls. After eleven months of calculation by computer clusters from three institutions, the prime factors have been found for a 307 digit long number. What does a number with 307 digits look like? Here’s one: 12948719847198741987491874127247975847647607608236582736510756102876082375608237608237562087035612948719847198741987 49187412724797584764760760823658273651075610287608237560823760823756208703561294871984719874198749187412724797584764 760760823658273651075610287608237560823760823756208703561983748103948573933 “This is the largest ‘special’ hard-to-factor number factored to date,” explains EPFL cryptology professor
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A Vision of Students Today – a video by Mike Wesch. Overall impression and feelings about the student life it portrays Interesting quotes – particularly when we consider the dates on them. Walls need decorating. Students seem miserable (I guess that’s intended?). Good example of using GoogleDocs for a collaborative document. I complete 49% of