Mahara Basics

Demonstration given in January 2013

This was a basic Mahara demonstration, using the examples that I had collated in the Mahara examples page and the updated Mahara Student Guide on the Mahara help page.

Star Rating

My comments on a "star-rated" system for online learning

I'm referring to Moodle here because that's what's used at Coventry University.

I think that a "star-rated" system would be great and would be one way of rewarding those who do well. I agree that it could also be used as a method to encourage tutors who need to improve their online presence.

I think that a "star-rated" system, if supplied with the right criteria, push, leadership and rewards, could be made to work.

More activities post-2012

Picking up this blog from many years ago! 

Entries prior to this date were a diary, starting just before my secondment to CIPeL in Spring 2007 and continuing throughout the secondment. My aim was to record here the events that take place throughout the secondment.

Subsequent entries are thoughts, notes and items that I have found interesting during my search for tools, techs and other items connected with my role in e-Learning.

The links quoted elsewhere in this may take a little time to clear up so please be patient if they don't yet work. Five years is a long time!
:)

Thank yous

Suddenly realised that I needed to acknowledge Alistair as the person who gave me a copy of a basic TW and some of whose tiddlers still reside on my TW! Did this then emailed to Alistair giving a big thank you for introducing me to them.

http://annedickinson.blogspot.com/2007/06/report-back-from-york.html

And now there's some more software that he wants to share!

So it's great to say thank you - it may lead to looking at some more software.....

Nearly there...

And a complete rethink on the format of my learning object. Using exe http://exelearning.org/ to collate the commentary and the examples - because it can embed an html page into the page and you can interact with it . Not too hard but I need the URLS up.

Just discovered that what I wanted to happen does work!

Simplified the TW: removed the left hand navigation column and the title because it took up space that was badly needed elsewhere. Did this by changing the stylesheet, so if the title is needed, I can just reinstate it! Also changed the background colour so that it wasn't white.

Why so late? Couldn't do a lot until the Curve repository was launched last Monday. Tuesday - Thursday I was writing a paper on the object. Friday finishing a report for TechDis on Portable Fx and DSpeech http://firefoxdspeech.pbwiki.com/ and away at the weekend. So - set to yesterday. Will I finish it by Thursday? I hope so!!!!

The commentary

At last I have started to make some roads into the TW and although I have been looking at the structure of the TW it is worth it to simplify it. And to make it interactive.

I feel that I have been making it too complicated to describe. It is after all just a collection of examples. But the way that they have been presented is unique. I hope the TW works! An earlier version did.

I think it's trying to answer any questions that have been posed that is difficult. One of the points is just to play with the thing! And find out.

Commentary

AT LAST I have made comments on each of the examples.

First I decided what to showcase from each and it had to be something different for each one.
Then I typed the commentary into the cipelwiki
http://cipel.pbwiki.com/TheExamples

I decided to make it simple:

1. The main comment being on the showcase item
   
2. The rest of the pages listed with items that were on then (questions, including types; styles; interactions) so that they could be picked up in the TW index.

Now just got to sort out the indexing for the TW... by example or by item?

And the Commentary, the Terminology and About that will all go in there.