After 8 years of service to the University, CitySpace has been switched off. This event was commemorated with the collection of obituary entries on this blog from staff and students and a small party. CitySpace, formerly known as City Online Learning, used the operating system WebCT Vista and was first used on courses at City…Continue Reading CitySpace Switchoff Party
SLE webinar for ELESIG: From Virtual to Strategic – the reinvention of an online learning environment
I gave my first webinar on Wednesday – was pretty good fun actually – although quite weird to be talking and making jokes, well what I thought were jokes, and not getting any feedback. I think though that because people used the comments and chat box more there were more questions and you could respond…Continue Reading SLE webinar for ELESIG: From Virtual to Strategic – the reinvention of an online learning environment
Mark Brown
Mark Brown: A Story of Hype and Hope: Breaking Free from the Technology Bungy 5th July 2011 During a recent visit to the UK from Massey University, New Zealand, Mark kindly stopped off at City to share this talk about educational technology. Mark’s career summary and list of achievement are overwhelming but match his enthusiastic,…Continue Reading Mark Brown
Moodle 2 in UK HE event
Moodle 2 in UK HE event 20th June 2011 https://sites.google.com/a/gapps.open.ac.uk/hemoodle/home-1 This event brought together UK HE Moodle users with a ‘strategic’ or ‘technical interest’ at the Open University campus in Milton Keynes. Four City University representatives attended with a view to gaining information and contacts to contribute to our decision to pilot and implement Moodle…Continue Reading Moodle 2 in UK HE event
Moodle Training for 500 Academics
Janina Dewitz, Barking and Dagenham College @Moodlemoot 2011 Initially providing; 1 size fits all training Demand driven group training Ad hoc 121 Negative impact; constant cycle of retraining. doing work for the lecturer So…they redesigned their training scheme Basics Screencasts, help sheets, FAQs Sent staff video tutorials instead of showing them Essentials for teachers and…Continue Reading Moodle Training for 500 Academics
MoodleMoot 2011
Myself and my colleague Stef divided MoodleMoot between us this year and I attended the second day of the conference on 20th April. This was my first MoodleMoot and while there was a lot to enjoy I found the second day quite short and with two keynotes there was not much time to hear about…Continue Reading MoodleMoot 2011