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I love this article Elaine. If only I had got feedback like that when I was at school!!

Quality. A lot of the (official) emphasis on formative assessment in the classroom (or AfL - assessment for learning, they call it in school-land) is down to this guy, Dylan Wiliam, from when he was an adviser to the government: http://www.journeytoexcellence.org.uk/videos/expertspeakers/formativeassessmentdylanwiliam.asp There was also a TV series - 'The Classroom Experiment' - tracing his tinkering with the teaching practices of a regular secondary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00txzwp Essential watching, it was! There are still some clips on there...

Want to get started using technology in the classroom? Here are five easy to use tools with ideas about how they can support learning. Blogging (WordPress and Blogger), YouTube, Screencasting (ScreenR and Explain Everything), Edmodo, Google Drive.

Learn something new every day with twitter. Here are fifteen Twitter users who regularly share interesting science facts and pictures.

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Interesting Staff development approach to develop Moodle skills and online / blended teaching practice at the colleges of the Bloomsbury learning environment.