There are a variety of Educational Technology tools which help students and teachers with writing. This list is by no means exhaustive but will provide a start point for teachers who wish to use technology to help their students with writing. Moodle Moodle is built around social constructivist principles and as such there are a
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No Comments » Wishing all readers a happy 2013! In this months post my focus is on some practical tools to help with reading. Thank you for all the positive comments about this series. I am glad that colleagues are finding it useful. Please feel free to share it with others – especially with schools who are taking
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Continuing the focus on literacy this month but paying special attention to oral literacy. Oral literacy is the keystone of all literacy and something which we often do unintentionally in the mainstream (non languages) classroom. As a teacher of students working second languages in a “past life” I was always trying to encourage my students
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As promised I continue to look at ICT tools and how they can be used to support Literacy…… Moodle Another variation of the glossary theme this month. Set up spelling lists of keywords as a moodle glossary – a good idea would be to include antonyms and synonyms in the description section (just make sure
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Moodle Item of the Week Plenty to blog about this month! Firstly a big congratulations to those who brought the moodle moot to us! A fantastic opportunity to meet other moodlers for us in Ireland. I was very excited to meet Mary Cooch having corresponded with her over 2 continents in the last 10 years!
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Moodle I have blogged before about quizzes in Moodle but discourse around assessment techniques and Moodle would not be complete without a visit to this module. If you are using Moodle 2 you will be experiencing great benefits of the new module. Consider training students to flag questions they would like you to address in
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This year I am only posting once per month. However, if you have not visited previously you will find a wealth of resources in my previous posts. Moodle item of the month I will focus on Assessment for the next few months. Last month I looked at HotPotatoes and suggested ways of using this as
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Moodle item of the month I did lots of great training on Moodle this week with new staff in my school. We were looking at using Moodle based tools for quizzes. We looked at Hotpotatoes (both the cloze test and multiple choice quiz). I’m sure you know this, but it is worth reminding ourselves that
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Moodle item of the week Continuing my exploration of the Administration panel in Moodle 1.9x, I turn today to the “files” area. If you are uploading several files at once (be they in a compressed folder or individual files) it is worth turning to the files area of the administration panel rather than uploading through
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