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The Ministry of Education and the Tertiary Education Commission supported the development of this Code of Practice by the tertiary education sector. It is expected that the Code will inform the activities of both tertiary education organisations and the Tertiary Education Commission in identifying, understanding and responding to the diverse needs of students with impairments.

Article on the social aspects and non coding benefits of Git & GitHub.  Record creativity, share OERs etc.

A good pitch for the role of coding in developing many key skills in solving problems, critical thinking, understanding behaviour etc.

interesting use of QR codes in moodle

Set of resources for computer science lecturers and students

Guide to using QR Codes in education.

Kyle's a student at San Jose State University who was threatened with a failing grade for posting the code he wrote for the course -- he wanted to make it available in the spirit of academic knowledge-sharing, and as code for potential future employers to review -- and when he refused, his prof flew into a fury and promised that in future, he would make a prohibition on posting your work (even after the course was finished) a condition of taking his course.

Examples of scripting. "The aim of Desktop Liberation  and its related blog is to encourage you to take advantage of web capabilities without being constrained by your desktop software. You'll see a few techniques, tips and tricks for sure, as well as fully functional sample applications in various languages and frameworks, with a particular emphasis on Google Technology.   All code is of course unprotected and free to re-use. For more details see Reusing code from this site. Examples are downloadable here and throughout the site."

The code for the reborn Edcast

Create your own fonts and get the css code for them.

A starter on creating gadgets to manipulate data in Googlr spreadsheets.

The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates, and extracts technical metadata for various file formats. It wraps several third-party open source tools, normalizes and consolidates their output, and reports any errors.

How advertising told females that computing was nothing to do with them. Discrimination 101.

Learning Web coding skills by hacking existing pages. For schools.

"Digital literacy is not word processing or watching movies on an iPhone, but instead using technology to create, code and collaborate. In today's world, that necessarily includes the Web. Building a generation of young 'webmakers' is key to job creation, international competitiveness and engagement in civil society. In this webinar, Mozilla will talk about their work in this area to define key Web literacy skills, create pathways for innovative learning experiences around them and build a network of instructors and facilitators with a shared mission."

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.

" When integrated with Matterhorn, BigBlueButton can record video, desktop, and audio and send the files to Matterhorn for processing and playback."