Integrating Inspirations outputs into Moodle – to manage files

One of the main criticisms of VLEs is that most people use them as file storage grounds, and even good users of VLEs will find that the nature of them forces them into arranging learning content in linear lists.
I previously blogged about the ability to upload an Inspiration output to Blackboard, and a similar [...]

Creating comic strips

There is a free web-based tool allowing people to create simple comic strips on the computer. It is called ‘stripcreator‘ which I am sure lots of educational filtering systems will blockjust based on the name.
It is very quick to learn how to use, and to create simple comic strips, for example here is one I [...]

A-levels conference

A-levels conference
Originally uploaded by Dave Foord

Today I am presenting at a conference organised by Sector Training, on A-Levels. I have a 1 hour slot to cover as many ways that social software can be used to support and enhance the A-Level learning experience, and have taken this photo on my phone, uploaded it to Flickr, [...]

Libraries, e-learning, and Learning & Teaching

A few days ago James Clay made a posting in his blog titled ‘College, universities and the digital divide‘ in which he made the following statment:-
I do believe it is important that the e-learning and learning resources functions within an FE College if not managed by the same person, the relevant managers should be working [...]