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Matt Finch wins the Most Active Moodler prize for the first half of the academic year for his extensive use of the Moodle platform. A new online course in employment skills is being developed on Moodle with interactive resources to help teenagers. The course will be delivered through one-on-one teaching and online assessment on Moodle.

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Halloween Special: Ilt News

Matt Finch wins the Most Active Moodler prize for the first half of the academic year for his extensive use of the Moodle platform. A new online course in employment skills is being developed on Moodle with interactive resources to help teenagers. The course will be delivered through one-on-one teaching and online assessment on Moodle.

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ISSUE 4 : 21/10/08

ILT NEW S
ECIAL
N S P
SUCKING
UNIVERSITY

HALL O W E E MATT FINCH WINS


MOST ACTIVE MOODLER PRIZE
After weeks of Moodling we can now declare
Matt Finch Champion of the Moodling League
for the first half term of the academic year.
Matt wins a remote keyboard and mouse
for his programme area, allowing extra flexibility
in the class room and letting students contribute to
whiteboard sessions by passing the keyboard around.

THIS WEEK IN MOODLE


Moodle Tip of the Week
This week we are working with Paul Last week you heard how Rosemary Hiron was
White and Sue Teichmann to produce using RSS feeds to keep her Moodle up to date
a new on-line course, NCFE level 1 in with fresh content. Well, here is a step by step
BLOODFOR

Employment Skills. guide to adding RSS blocks to your Moodle.

This qualification will be delivered by a Turn editing on.


combination of one to one teaching and Scroll down to the bottom left of your moodle
page and click on add blocks
on-line assessment via Moodle.
From the drop down choose remote rss feeds
There are plenty of exciting, interactive A new block will appear for RSS feeds
resources that have been produced Click to configure this block
Choose manage all my feeds from the tab
with the aim of helping teenagers into Scroll down to the Add a news feed box and
APPLYING

employment and training, for example, type or paste in the address of the feed.
www.careersbox.co.uk which has Click Add to validate the feed.
hundreds of short video interviews Go back to your page and there it is.
with workers and employers in a range
of employment sectors around the
country. Interactive career planners like Kudos and
Fast Tomato are ideally accessed through
Moodle and the candidate sheets that
students need to complete as evidence
for the qualification can be downloaded
and completed before being uploaded
back on to Moodle for assessment.
Moodle reports provide evidence of
the student’s activity with logs of the
resources they have accessed and
their grades and quiz results are easily
accessible and downloadable as excel
files.
Sue is going to liaise with the NCFE
moderator to ensure that this on-line,
www.careersbox.co.uk flexibly delivered course meets the needs
The Fitness Instructor of the exam board.

ISSUE 4 : 22/10/08
RESOURCES ROUNDUP
MOMA What is a Print?
An interactive introduction to printing techniques, this animated
flash movie has demonstrations of a range of printing techniques
including lithography and screenprinting with a gallery of the work
of famous print artists. I’ve produced a Moodle quiz to go with it.
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/whatisaprint/print.html
BLOOD SUCKING

CASESTUDY: Michael Harper’s Whiteboard


Next time you are over at the shrubbery for thoughts and ideas. I have spoken
your morning coffee glance beyond the coffee with both Mike and his students and
and you will see an interactive whiteboard the enjoyment is certainly mutual.
being used to its full potential. Students really appreciate the
Mike Harper from the Food Service team interactivity, participation and fun
engages and enthuses his learners with this device brings to their learning.
his creative use of this versatile tool. The
interactive whiteboard becomes a game
by Imogen Woodford
board, a count down as well as a place to pool
FELICITATIONS
Felicitations from the Facilitators.
If you need to book time in a
learning centre, including the
Hive, remember that it has to
be booked via your department
administrator on Celcat. You
can also request a facilitator by
emailing a session plan with at
least two days notice to Kate
Hobbs.
Have a look at teachers.tv
Specially for Halloween, here is a clip of Michael NEXT WEEK
Rosen talking about the enduring appeal of the HALF TERM
horror genre. For A level Media, Film or English
!!!
students. www.teachers.tv/video/3424


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