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great for keeping in touch with all students | Moodle News possible extra plugin block for UoW Moodle

Oxford Uni and their temporary block on Google Docs because of Forms being used for phishing.

Analytics and Recommendations block uses charts and tables which are colour coded so students can quickly see they participation. Students can see single analytics about their participation in the course. Teachers can see single, comparative analytics and global analytics (all students together) too. Morover, the block shows recommendations for students about what activities they should work to improve their final grade. It shows too a estimate final grade according with a reference course.

A work in development, with some twitter blocks to add to Moodle courses

"The educational thought experiment I wish to undertake concerns curriculum. Not the specific content of curriculum, but the idea of curriculum, what any curriculum is, regardless of subject. Like Copernicus, I propose that for the sake of better results we need to turn conventional wisdom on it is head:  let's see what results if we think of action, not knowledge, as the essence of an education; let's see what results from thinking of future ability, not knowledge of the past, as the core; let's see what follows, therefore, from thinking of content knowledge as neither the aim of curriculum nor the key building blocks of it but as the offshoot of learning to do things now and for the future."

Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming language. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required.

More than a decade into the 21st century and we are still keeping learners and teachers prisoners of the analog past by enforcing outdated mandates that ban and block them from using the digital resources of their world. 

Why we should allow the Internet of Things in exams.

Interesting site. How do you distinguish your university from every other one on the block?

A University of Toronto professor who got students to grade their peers' work has seen the practice blocked by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

What SB has on his desk!

This could be a useful addition. "The Progress Bar is a time-management tool for students.It visually shows what activities/resources a student is supposed to interact with in a course.It is colour coded so students can quickly see what they have and have not completed/viewed.The teacher selects which pre-existing activities/resources are to be included in the Progress Bar and when they should be completed/viewed."

An example of IT Admins deciding what is good for us and getting it spectacularly wrong. Many other examples in the comments too.

How teachers are working around overprotective content filters to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.

Lots of Moodle resources on a demo Moodle site. e.g. Google, Skype, flash

Links for listening and uploading to DS106 Radio - and the minimal protocol for loading.  Fantastic example of just getting out there and doing it.

And now, new ds106 TV http://www.justin.tv/ds106tv/b/282994702? I suspect here's an awful lot of copyrighted music played over the ds106 radio waves/pipes, but I wouldn't know since internet radio protocols seem to be blocked :-(

Reduce class size to 30-40 and tech single units for 4 weeks improves results