Assessment assessment – part 2
The assessment starts off with a few brief positive points, in a factual tone, and then quickly launches into a description of the assessor’s problems. LEARNING FACILITATOR Comments Select and...
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Peer Reviewers “I’d be interested in how your very capable peer reviewers found reading your work.” Comment One – Linda Hartley Hi all In Andy’s feedback Gina suggests that this might be the start of...
View ArticleAssessment assessment – part 6
( This series is getting a bit lengthy, up to part 6 already, so for the readers’ convenience, here again are the links to the Action Enquiry Report and the Assessment cover sheet ) Quoting This is...
View ArticleCould be worse!
Les Perelman via MICHAEL WINERIP quoted on Weblogg-ed SAT graders are told to read an essay just once and spend two to three minutes per essay, and Dr. Perelman is now adept at rapid-fire SAT grading....
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No Smiling Day
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View ArticleSchool Blogging
Weblogs are starting to make an appearance in the classroom already, in a limited way. I’ve set up a travel log for one teacher which will be followed and commented on by class 4 children this...
View ArticleReal World Research
This is the book recommended by one Learning Facilitator for Year 3 of the Ultraversity Learning, Research and Technology degree. It’s called Real World Research by Colin Robson, and you can buy it...
View Articlehypertext as literacy
I’ve been enjoying Will’s Weblogg-ed a lot recently, and today he speculates about connectivist assessment products: The other interesting idea in the Open Source show was when Weinberger talked about...
View ArticleALERT e-portfolio problem
The following needs to be shouted from the rooftops in order to avoid losing students’ work and mistakenly marking incomplete assessment products, which by all accounts has already happend. “All...
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You and your action research project
You and Your Action Research Project by McNiff, Lomax and Whitehead is recommended by Eve in preference to Robson. available from Amazon both new and second hand ultraversity Thanks for subscribing to...
View ArticleBA (Hons) Busking
Year Three of Ultraversity‘s ground breaking online degree consists of an Action Research project devised by the student based on our own circumstances. Working Title: Busking for improvement Context:...
View ArticleRobots.txt, mediawiki and Google Sitemap
I used to have my ukcider mediawiki excluded from most search engines through a robots.txt file which looked like this: User-agent: * Disallow: /wiki/ but then I decided I’d like to have another go at...
View Articleto Wikiversity or not to Wikiversity? Vote now.
I noted with interest when the Wikiversity project started up last year some time, wondering how quickly it would develop, and if the emphasis entirely on content rather than process ( roughly an...
View ArticleEnterprise RSS?
I’ve clearly got a lot to learn about Enterprise 2.o. For example, what exactly is the point of standardising on one mandated brand of RSS reader software for every employee in an organisation? In my...
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School Of Everything
Last night at Channel 4 in Horseferry Road, London The School of Everything launched. I’d heard about school of everything from various places over the past year, and gathered the idea is to encourage...
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Image Editing Lesson 1 : Layers
Seashore image editing Video On request I’ve made some Image editing tutorial videos and this is the first in a series of at least five. Lesson one is an introduction to using Layers. Layers are...
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Image Editing lesson 2 : The Clone Tool
The second video tutorial in this series about image editing concerns the use of the Clone Tool. In the first lesson we looked at image editing with Layers, and again I’m using the Seashore free image...
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Image Editing 3 : Colour Select with Seashore for Mac
Image Editing Videos I’ve been asked if there are any more image editing tutorials after having published image editing lesson 1 layers and image editing lesson 2 the clone tool so here’s lesson 3...
View ArticleTalk About Local Unconference to take place in Cardiff
Are you a Local blogger? On April 2nd Cardiff is to host an Unconference event for Talk about Local. Including hyperlocal sites such as Splott Online. Thanks for subscribing to Andy Roberts...
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Some things I can’t do on the ipad 2 yet.
So this is an experimental blog post feeding the output from a mind map directly via email to the blog. The mind map software is ithoughtsHD as recommended by Ed Dale and MacSparky, and it’s an...
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