Found this great initiative via Weblogg-ed while clearing feeds in bloglines this morning.
The 6-week course is organised by Aaron Campbell, Barbara Dieu and Graham Stanley, with numeorus other facilitators including Anne Davis, James Farmer, Will Richardson etc.
Tried applying to join the course, not sure if it is too late, but thought it would be a great learning experience seeing how the course is going to run, with experts and participants all over the globe.
In the meantime, waiting patiently for the acceptance reply … 🙂
Concept to Classroom Online Worskhop
This site provides free elearning modules entitled:
1. After-School Programs – From Vision to Reality
2. Assessment, Evaluation, and Curriculum Redesign
3. Constructivism as a Paradigm for Teaching and Learning
4. Cooperative and Collaborative Learning
5. Inquiry-based Learning
6. Interdisciplinary Learning in Your Classroom
7. Making Family and Community Connections
8. Tapping into Multiple Intelligences
9. WebQuests
10. Why the Net? An Interactive Tool for the Classroom
Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard
You must have either heard of or played the game “Scissors Paper Stone”. Well, to spice up the game and to reduce the probability of a tie, here’s a new variation, with new addition of Spock and Lizard.
Have fun!
KnowNet – Open Source for Collaborative Knowledge Development and Learning
This few days we have been talking about looking at Open Source Software (OSS) for possible applications in schools, to support teaching and learning. Chanced open this site(KnowNet), home to 2 OSS, namely Plone and Zope.
For future reference purpose:
Zope is an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications.
Plone is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.
Blogs used in NUS tutorials
Some lecturers in NUS have used blogs for their courses, as well as to keep track of their research students.
Blogs are especially useful for popular courses taken up by a large number of undergraduates. Instead of setting up tutorials for all students, they conduct some of the tutorials online, by adding their comments to a discussion set out in a blog. Marks will be awarded based on their responses at the end of the courses.
Looks like the students are embracing blogs quite well, as seen from the responses. Read the article for the full report in STI.
And thanks Agnes for pointing me to the article 🙂