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Re: Caption Competition #3

pleft — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:33:40 -0000

Do you like to keep up date with what's going on in the world? All the latest news comes right to your drawing-room with this innovative Rotary Shelf System (RSS).

Re: The Benefits of Making It Harder to Learn

pleft — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:07:30 -0000

Yes, I agree - it can be very beneficial to make explicit the learning process and its rationale. See also:

http://www.verso.co.nz/peda...

Re: 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education

pleft — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:21:13 -0000

Great suggestions, Carol. I've been gathering some ideas on my wiki of uses that have arisen naturally from just setting up Twitter as a sort of 'back-channel' for a course:

http://www.verso.co.nz/mw/i...

Thanks for the informative post...

Paul

Re: Blackboard still needs fixing

pleft — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:32:33 -0000

Yes, the fact that Moodle is 'free' is perhaps less important for big institutions than the high level of support available for it from its community of users and developers. And you can always tweak the code if you don't like the way something works.

Re: education 3.0

pleft — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:03:40 -0000

Quote: 'Now I suppose you could have a wiki where users are not allowed to contribute material without approval from an editor, but that undermines some of the specific advantage of the wiki.'

For me, one of the advantages of the wiki is it can be used so many ways: totally open, partly open, or closed in the way you mention above. Totally open is not always the most appropriate in an education context. That is, a given course might incorporate a totally open wiki for some aspects and closed wikis for others.

To my mind, there's no one right way to use wikis in education. I've been working on the read-write matrix which is based on this idea.