What are formative and summative assessments? As per wikipedia – Formative assessment or diagnostic testing is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures employed by teachers during the learning process in order to modify…
Monthly Archives For September 2013
Moodle 2: Embedding twitter(social media) into your module
What are the benefits of using social media for students? Embedding social media into modules can make your students want to: engage with your module much more be able to easily network with their peers…
Moodle 2: How to make personal tutorial appointments with your students
Moodle 2 has an integrated system called the Scheduler which can help you set up one-to-one appointments with your students, but I am told you can also set up group appointments if you have created groups…
Story telling session
Alison Davies,a professional story teller, ran a small story telling session this week giving a taste of the workshops she runs with academics around how to use story telling. language and creativity to improve the…
Moodle 2: Quizzing your students
Moodle offers lots of quiz questions and the list is endless: Algebra – students enter an algebraic formula for their answer. Calculated – Students enter values calculated using the given values. Values are randomly selected…
Moodle 2: What does your online profile say about you?
Have you ever wondered why students don’t seem to engage that much on Moodle? Why they may not be interacting with their peers as much as you thought? Well there might be a number of…
One Hundred and One Things About Video In Education
The 20th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology (altc2013) 10–12 September 2013, Nottingham, UK altc2013 Building new cultures of learning Everybody learns, but the ways in which we learn are changing rapidly. The…