Rowland’s Blog about e-learning matters

Having used blogs for the first seven weeks of the COMP3092 module I have a few reflections about how it went.
The main blog has been a useful way of getting feedback about student activity and their perceptions about their own learning. Asking students to respond to a post by using the comments facility has worked [...]

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I thought I might gather together some of the useful stuff I found out about at the Edublogs day in London yesterday. Some of this might be better put in the blogroll or somewhere else in the sidebar but if so I will move it later.
Here is a link to my page on bloglines, however [...]

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I have set up a blog at Blogger.com to allow students to make general comments about my module COMP3092 Advanced Web Design.
I have also set up some group blogs that the students themselves control on which they address a particular issue to do with the module.
The main blog has worked quite well for [...]

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There was some really interesting stuff discussed at the edublogs session in london today.
The two things I found were especially useful was the opportunity to set up a blog (this one :-)) using wordpress. This allowed me to see what the possiblities were for authorship so that I can set up a range of “posters” [...]

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I have looked through the impressive set of style sheets available and have chosen to use a simple a style sheet as possible (Zen Minimalist). I may change my mind later especially as I have just noticed that it does not allow capital letters, shock horror !! A more important issue was that it [...]

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Well at least it is more original than “Hello World”

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