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Plug in for Moodle that allows double marking and blind marking. Includes access to Turnitin reports.

Opinion blog from Mark Pesce about technology, web 2.0, hyperconnectivity, crowdsourcing etc About Mark PesceMark Pesce is an inventor, writer, educator and broadcaster. In 1994 Pesce co-invented VRML, a 3D interface to the World Wide Web. Pesce has written five books, including The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination, which used toys such as Furby and PlayStation to explain our interactive future.

opinion blog about technology, web 2.0, connectivism, future etc. About Mark Pesce Mark Pesce is an inventor, writer, educator and broadcaster. In 1994 Pesce co-invented VRML, a 3D interface to the World Wide Web. Pesce has written five books, including The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination, which used toys such as Furby and PlayStation to explain our interactive future.

A thread by Tim Hunt describing work at the OU developing tools to auto mark free text responses in quizzes. Has links to try out two approaches. In Moodle.org so will need (free) log-in to read.

Excellent post by Mark Smithers capturing the difficulty I have with a corporate control attitude in HE.

Tool to mark assessments online with a Moodle integration apparently coming soon.

Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licensing

"This post is to mark post conference publication which provides you with a variety of examples on how Moodle is used throughout Ireland and the UK. The publication contains six articles where the authors of each article volunteered to expand upon their conference presentation and share their experience in detail with you. This publication covers a wide variety of topics from optimising the layout of your Moodle course to analysing the usage of your course through Google Analytics. Hopefully this represents the first of many publications along the same line where Moodle users from the conference produce detailed articles sharing their Moodle experience."

Testing a gamified course against a normal course. (I think this isn't really gamification but just reward. I think for it to be gamified there has to be a challenge intrinsic to the activity not just marking activities as complete.)

Hadn't paid attention to the improvements in the Diigo extension for Chrome. Just discovered that you can use it to do screen captures and mark them up at the same time with text, arrows and shapes.

Great post from Mark Smithers bemoaning the ownership of social media by marketing gurus in universities

Mark Smithers shows some linkages between Connectivism and learning theory and MOOCs

Free book on future of the internet download under read now) Bunch of essays about impact of internet on society, how internet should be managed, privacy, intellectual property etc . Various perspectives but published by a libertarian think tank. Critical of Lessig for proposing controls on internet development. Some good reads (Dean, beware - lawyers). Also check out the video presentations - panel discussions - some fascinating stuff. This book is both a beginning and an end. Its publication marks the beginning of TechFreedom, a new non-profit think tank that will launch alongside this book in January 2011. Our mission is simple: to unleash the progress of technology that improves the human condition and expands individual capacity to choose.

Mark Hawksey describes how to make a great event booking form by customising Google Forms.

Project to develop mark-up / annotation tools that are web based and collaborative.

Mark Nichols blog of reflection on things elearning, and pedagogy.

Mark Brown muses about the situation and status of the L&T Centre in the modern iniversity.

Mark Brown rants about "...yet another attempt to place 'pedagogy in a box' in the context of technology-enhanced learning."

Martin Jorgensen talks about using video to give meaningful, in time, feedback. Exactly what we're trying to push. (And cites Hattie and Carless!)

Mark Brown reminds us not to get carried away extolling the power of technology in a post based around Neil Selwyn's critiques of technological determinism.