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At the recent Moodle Moot UK (2011) I was really fortunate to be part of the #awesomegroup during the Knowledge Cafe, simply by virture of my first name starting with L! Many thanks to @LaurenShinfield who volunteered to chair our amazing session, I definitely learnt so so much.
It was also humbling to hear the experiences and expertise of @moodlefairy herself (Mary Cooch), during this Knowledge Cafe session, and also during her break-out session which I found very interesting, but more on that later.
@LaurenShinfield has shared the notes she very kindly and efficiently compiled during our session, and I am merely reorganising the information here. The complete list can be found here. Read more…
Yesterday’s Pre-Moot UK 2011 (18th April 2011) meet brought together Moodle Developers from around UK as well as all over the world. The Pre-Moot meet was held at the Senate House Library, University of London based on an Unconference format. For those not familiar with the term, here is a quick Wikipedia page for it ‘Unconference Definition by Wikipedia‘. The Pre-Moot Unconference had a slow start but picked up steam no sooner than the next tea break. Read more…
We had a very exciting start to the week when one of our unassuming websites and its courses had a well received mention in the Moodle News blog. Thank you! The website in question is based on Moodle and contains information regarding the services we offer. It also serves as a hub for the community of users to share their knowledge and experience on the use of e-learning in schools as well as tips, tricks and best practices. Apart from that, the site also offers schools, a recycling program for IT equipment to help find new life for IT kit and reduce electronic waste, what we like to call the 3RE Programme (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle). Interestingly, the highlight was not about the purpose of the website.
It looks really good (on the Mathematics Learning Zone). Thanks a lot for doing such a good job. It will be much easier to navigate now with access to the relevant courses in one place.
- Head of Department
We were trying to come up with a good course layout and content but this is much better and exceeds all our expectations. The new course layout and navigation is something we are really happy with. Thank you for taking the time to work with us, putting together a good design plan and providing us with very useful suggestions.
- Department of Mathematics
Homework is very often a contentious issue and many schools often feel caught in the middle of a rock and a hard place, whatever their homework policy. They find that they can never please the entire parent population as homework will often be either too little or too much.
We recently worked with a client school, to develop a homework tracking and support system, to allow students and more importantly their parents to have easier access to their set homework via their bespoke VLE.
Accordingly, teachers were expected to set homework for specific weeks, for a set duration of time. Much of this homework was of course the traditional form of reinforcement of lesson taught earlier within class time. Typically, students were then meant to submit their homework assignments for marking. Read more…
The Leader in Me by Stephen R. Covey
Published Simon & Schuster 2008Read our review on Stephen Covey’s book on how schools and parents around the world are inspiring greatness in children.
I think that the layout looks excellent and more importantly very intuitive and simple to navigate.
- College Teacher on Course Navigation and Layout
As a Director of Post 16, I see MOODLE as an excellent way to facilitate communication amongst the Post 16 Support & Guidance team and students. We will look at ways of developing this (further with Xelium) to make good use of this excellent resource.
- Director of Post 16 on Support and Guidance Section
What our clients think of their fully customised e-Learning Platforms:
“Some pupils have really find this enjoyable, trying a different way of learning an alternative to standard written homework.”
- Teacher on the use of VLE
“The VLE is great – will take a while to get going, but will be a fantastic resource in due course… “
- Governor on the potentials of her her School’s VLE
”I’ve had a good look round and I think it looks great. I can see masses of potential for this.”
- Governor on her School’s VLE built
“The new navigation is great, we found students clicking their way to the courses they want through an easy to access and intuitive interface. In their own words, ‘funky and cool’.”
- Teacher on the Department’s new navigation system on their VLE
Xelium is happy to have received excellent feedback from our clients and are exceptionally grateful for their support.
Make a start as soon as practical (on school’s learning platform)
Taking a highly structured and responsive approach to each child’s and young person’s learning, in order that all are able to progress, achieve and participate. It means strengthening the link between learning and teaching by engaging pupils – and their parents – as partners in learning.
