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Differentiated Tasks

By Derek | Published: February 25, 2010

William M. Ferriter’s article is Why Teachers Should Try Twitter is more about differentiated instruction than Twitter. When I read it, I thought – here’s a note to self – time to explore how technology can be leveraged so that  “students of different abilities, interest or learning needs” can use  different learning paths so that [...]

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Students networking with Students

By Derek | Published: February 17, 2010

There’s a range of people in my Ed Tech PGCE class this year. Some are very sussed, and others are finding computers a frightening prospect. This morning a small co-hort of about 10 PGCE students (many of them very new to computers) joined me while I demonstrated copying, cropping and adding effects to their class [...]

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QR in class

By Derek | Published: January 18, 2010

I’ve usually teach ICT on Networks where the students out number the desktops quite dramatically. Last years class was over 70 students in size, and I had 12 computers to share amongst them. While some might think that one person one computer is a democratic right, the poor ratio of computers to users does have [...]

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Wordled & taguled my thesis

By Derek | Published: November 2, 2009

I hauled out the old thesis and copied & pasted the text into Wordle. Yishay persuaded me to take it further and submit it to the I wordled my thesis group on Flickr. The thesis seems more accessible as a tag cloud and, when enlarged, it visually summerises the key words and ideas contained in [...]

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Discover Microblogging (Draft)

By Derek | Published: October 23, 2009

Microblogging (the act of broadcasting short, real-time messages) allows people to express themselves in new ways. It offers people a new communication channel to broadcast and share updates about what they are reading, thinking, experiencing, watching and doing. Educationalists that choose to incorporate Microblogs into their courses could refocus Microblogging as a peer to peer [...]

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Your progress and your opinions of my progress

By Derek | Published: June 18, 2009

Well done to you all. We are more than half way through the course, and many of you are on track with task submission. 68 students have submitted task 1, 63 have submitted task 2 (still waiting for the outstanding 13 to tell me which group they are in), 65 have submitted task 3, 41 [...]

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As good as it gets?

By admin | Published: December 11, 2007

I’m 40, I work from home, I’m married and spend my time between DIY, Children, Jean and the computer. This sums it up. Do you really want to see what I’m up to?

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