ipadio: Ipadio Demo To West Thames
Posted November 19th, 2009 by RonPosted via email from mitchellmedia’s posterous
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Fantastic keynote from Handheld Learning 09 – Zenna Atkins
Posted October 13th, 2009 by RonThis was a fantatisic and thought provoking keynote from Zenna Atkins Chair of Ofsted at Handheld Learning 2009.
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Chair of Ofsted, Zenna Atkins, provides opening address at Handheld Learning 2009, London. www.handheldlearning.org www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com
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ipadio: Xerte Session
Posted October 2nd, 2009 by Ron
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Four new Xerte Page Types
Posted September 18th, 2009 by RonA while back I started to develop some of my own page types for use with Xerte and Xerte Online Toolkits. I finally found a small bit of time to test and refine them so here’s some examples.
This first example automatically generates QR code and short URL from a link typed or pasted into the editor when authoring. The link could obviously be a link to the learning object itself e.g. displayed on the last page to share details of how to access the LO after a f2f session.
This second example displays the results of a twitter search feed complete with user avatars. Twitter is obviously growing in popularity and awareness of teaching and learning uses so being able to include one or more twitter feeds within an LO is a useful facility.
This third example is a tweak of the existing stimulating question page whereby the user is prompted to type a response to a question or task before clicking the button to compare their own response with a pre-prepared example or list of ideas and suggestions.
Finally this fourth example will only be of interest to those using the xlearn text wall system. It takes the RSS feed from that system and provides an optimised display of the messages for use in a f2f environment.
You can download an export of these templates here and either use that via the Xerte Windows application or add to your own Toolkits installation. The latter will require admin access to the toolkits installation.
I hope to create a guide at some point on how to create new templates and incorporate them into the default Nottingham provided template. Meanwhile I hope the zip is useful but as always you’ll need to use at your own risk etc.
For users of the molenet xerte online toolkits installation the new page types are already available.
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Can we still use Gabcast for free?
Posted March 9th, 2009 by RonThere’s been some interesting discussion about this recently and after a test or two I’m still not sure!
Dave has blogged about this here: http://dsugden.posterous.com/gabcast and there’s been various discussions on Jaiku and by email. Dave’s post included details of the SipBroker number so I just tested that on a gabcast channel I set up previously and initially for a session I delivered to a PGCE group. I hadn’t used that for a while and so logged in and noticed my accounted details showing 5 minutes remaining. So I concluded that even if I connected for free via a SibBroker number that my remain minutes would reduce by the length of the recording. The reason I’m now not sure about all this is that so far the minutes haven’t reduced!
Here’s my test via the Birmingham SipBroker number:
Gabcast! PGCE #27
and here’s the full player for this PGCE channel:
I guess I’ll also have to check my next mobile bill to see if the SipBroker number actually cost anything!
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Learning-to-change- changing-to-learn
Posted February 26th, 2009 by RonTags: e-learning
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THC & Newham Staff at MoLeNET development session
Posted February 23rd, 2009 by Ron
This was the first session looking at the MDA Compact 4 and how it might be put to good use.
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Post with image attached from htc touch diamond
Posted February 22nd, 2009 by Ron
Process here is to select a picture select send by email and then add relevant text to email and of course send to posterous
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1st day with the htc diamond
Posted February 18th, 2009 by RonThis is a test with this t-mobile device and hopefully will include some attachments. Had some problems setting up the mail account but seems fine now
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Info for those with Teacher access to the molenet moodle:
Posted February 16th, 2009 by RonHi all
Temi recently had some problems hiding items on the molenet moodle and I’ve been investigating the cause/solution which is proving a bit tricky. It seems if we try to hide, move or edit an item via the little editing icons alongside each item we get a blank screen rather than the editing options or the item being moved. I’ve tracked this down to part of the query string causing the problem e.g. at the end of the url you will see &sr=xy where xy equals a number representing the current topic number. If you remove that end part of the string e.g. &sesskey=aLrm8dUXJG&sr=10 the bit in red here and hit return the edit will work.
However this is obviously not right and I shall investigate further and report back asap.
From some tests I’ve just done the other solution is to enable Ajax on the site and then for you to update your profile to enable this too. This does allow much more efficient organisation of content and blocks but in previous versions of moodle was a little buggy. From my current tests it does seem the best option at the moment until I can get to the bottom of the problem with the normal method of editing so here’s where to go in your profile to switch this on:
Once you’ve selected [Yes: use advanced web features] click the button to Update Profile. Now when you turn editing on in a course you’ll see little crosses with arrow heads
alongside items which you can click and drag to move the item. (see below) You can also click and drag on blocks and topics to move them around so it’s much more efficient to organise things.
Please let me know if this causes you any problems or indeed if you know anything about the cause/solution to the &sr= problem.
UPDATE: How wrong was I about all this! After researching I discovered the cause of the problem was that the site had actually been hacked like many others across the world. It was a long process to get it all sorted and anyone thinking they may have the same issue should read all the info on moodle.org http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=111710
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