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Finding your tribe

One of the most enjoyable and inspiring books I have read this year has been Sir Ken Robinson's "Out of our Minds"  and my ref...

Friday, 27 August 2010

Hoping to find others who understand...

Today I showed my husband my abstract for my short paper to be delivered at ALT-C 2010. I don't blame him for not showing enthusiasm, to him my e-learning work is just another time consuming activity that distracts me from being more available to home and family. Some of my colleagues at work are also bemused by my desire to encourage online interaction and voice over the internet in language teaching. However, I am looking forward to meeting others who get it when I join the ALT-C in Nottingham in September. So excited about the possibility of finally finding my "niche" :)
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010

A week of breakthroughs

We now have a moodle, complete with suitable logos and a choice group of users. We also have a suite of social networking tools for the Language Centre (facebook, netvibes, youtube channel and of course twitter has been going for a little while)All of a sudden we're off!

Saturday, 15 May 2010

moodle mash ups


ok so now we get underway with moodle. Looks like it is worth visiting http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=5 with a guest access.
We may find out how to integrate our repository here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1807
Good to see some work going on around integrating social networking.
Language thread: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=43
and they have a lounge :)
http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=55


Lots to test now...