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How not to use a learning platform…

December 12, 2008 - Comment, Whole School Issues, learning platforms - By: Chris

I was a little taken aback this week after talking to my sister-in-law who is a primary school teacher in the north of England.
The LEA she works with has provided an LP which is great but she was saying…

Audacity – the update

December 10, 2008 - learning platforms, software - By: Chris

Well, top marks for a speedy answer from the previous post. Here’s what they said…
“We have some disabled (because buggy and limited) development code that permitted upload of already exported files to a…

Using Audacity with Sharepoint

December 9, 2008 - learning platforms - By: Chris

I’m shattered! 
We’re working with one of our partnerships schools on a project with some 11-year olds where they record a desert-island diary entry in Audacity and create an mp3 out of it.
We want to…

Student Teacher’s VLE project

December 2, 2008 - Professional Development, learning platforms - By: Chris

We’ve just finished supporting a student English teacher, Amy Knott, in a learning platform based project around the text her Y9 class are reading, Robert Swindells’ Stone Cold.
The main focus was producing a short

Mini Laptops and Learning Platforms

October 31, 2008 - Equipment, learning platforms - By: Chris

Pic: Advent Netbook (pingpong ball for scale)One of our main strategic goals this year at our CLC is embedding learning platforms in the curriculum. So far, so good. A few departments are really running with them as tools for managing resources and running activities in the…

What is a Learning Platform? The Return

October 27, 2008 - learning platforms - By: Chris

I hate to blow our own trumpet [cue:sound of trumpet being taken out of its case and given a good polish) but…
One of our first posts was about a short animation we…

Teachers’ TV as a development tool

October 13, 2008 - Professional Development, Site of the Week, Uncategorized, learning platforms - By: Chris

Pic: Teachers' TV studio 
image: http://flickr.com/photos/ush/528223663/
We love free stuff at Electric Chalk so Teachers’ TV occupies a wee niche in our hearts. For those of you in not in the UK or who haven’t come across it, Teachers’ TV…