http://misterel.edublogs.org Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:56:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Haven't been a 'good' blogger. My main reason is that I get so sucked into the world of twitter and following conversations, chipping in and then looking at all the various resources that have been talked about.  However tomorrow I have a 30min slot to discuss some web2 resources to ... http://misterel.edublogs.org/2009/03/01/web2-presentation-collaboration/ Due to the imminent arrival of my to girls for a couple of weeks and the extremely dodgy weather forecast I decided I needed another web based PC so that the kids could have internet access and also allow me to use ... http://misterel.edublogs.org/2008/08/06/the-asus-eee-pc-and-me/ Functional skills are a fantastic idea. The need to pass a functional skills test in order to get a diploma is a great idea.  The need to pass level 2 functional skills test in English, Maths and ICT to get a coresponding A*-C at GCSE is quite scary.  The premise ... http://misterel.edublogs.org/2008/08/01/ict-and-functional-skills/ Prior to finishing for the summer holidays, I found myself in  discussions with SLT about the differences between the school website, moodle (our VLE) and SIMs Learning gateway(SLG) and the need to justify the use of some, all or just one of the above.... From my own personal point of ... http://misterel.edublogs.org/2008/07/30/websites-vles-and-slg/ I have now had my flip video for a week and most of that time it has been evaluated by ICT support. The reason for this is that I want to use it for the DiDA 202 course and possibly iMedia. This means that my pupils have to ... http://misterel.edublogs.org/2008/07/11/flip-video-revisited/ I am at an impasse. DiDA has been my KS4 life for the past 3 years. I like the course. I like the way it is developing pupils abilities to think independently. I like the eportfolios and the fact that it is virtually paper free..... However, DiDA ... http://misterel.edublogs.org/2008/07/10/ocr-nationals-or-dida/ Virtual Learning Environments are one of the big things kicking around schools at the moment.  About a year ago we as a school decided to opt for moodle.  There were a variety of reasons, the main one being that a good friend of mine was already running moodle so I ... http://misterel.edublogs.org/2008/07/07/moodleimplementing-a-vle-whole-school/ Flip video arrived at school today...First impression, what a great box and great packaging. Maggie in accounts (who had ordered it for me) was as excited as I was.  Got the white one (as you can see in pictures).  Took it out, put the batteries in and recorded some kids ... http://misterel.edublogs.org/2008/07/04/flip-video-first-impressions/ Adrive popped into conversation today with my network manager.  He happened to mention that it had been updated and now no longer needed Java to get it working.  I then mentioned that I was about to back up my 'My Docs' off the school network ready to start afresh next ... http://misterel.edublogs.org/2008/07/03/practical-uses-in-education-part-1-adrive/ Have just been re-reading my posts and have realised that twitter has been mentioned, linked to, but not really explained... Also I think I am a visual learner... Twitter is the biggest word in the tag cloud I added!!! So I'll try and explain how I use Twitter and the ... http://misterel.edublogs.org/2008/07/02/twitter-and-me/