Having just received the marks for Module 1: School-based Enquiry (Merit) and Module 3: Developing eLearning (Distinction) of the Masters in Education I am studying towards, I felt that it was time to post an update. Module 1: School-based Enquiry A long and thin module that began in September and finished in June, it afforded me the [...]
To help clarify my thoughts while writing my School-based Enquiry, I decided it would be helpful to discuss the use of Google Docs in the classroom with a fellow teacher. Oliver Quinlan has been using Google Docs in much the same way as I have and he kindly agreed to be interviewed over Skype. The [...]
This post is the second in a four part series, you can read part one here. Having set out a case for social networks in place of VLEs in part one, one of my other criticisms of learning platforms is that many of the tools they come pre-loaded with are simply not up to scratch [...]
This is the fourth and final instalment about my experiences of using Google docs in the classroom. You can read part 1 here, part 2 here and part 3 here. Part 4: What’s Next? (or chipping away at the Google docs iceberg) This final chapter is a little (cough) belated and some of the ideas and approaches to using [...]
Volume 1, Issue 1 of #edjournal is available to read online – now! Nick worked really hard to finish editing the articles and I have completed the design of web and PDF versions of the journal. I am in the process of adding the ability for readers to comment on the site. The PDF/EPUB and [...]
