Learning is enhanced by making documents easily available to students. Having documents located in one central location is fantastic!
Tuesday 25 February 2014
Using Moodle as a content repository.
Moodle is a fantastic digital resource to facilitate opportunities of document retrieval ....
Learning is enhanced by making documents easily available to students. Having documents located in one central location is fantastic!
Learning is enhanced by making documents easily available to students. Having documents located in one central location is fantastic!
Using Whatsapp to communicate with students.
Students today embrace digital technology in many forms. You are very unlikely to find a student that does not use a smartphone of one description of another.
Social communication within groups, externally to their classes can be enhanced by tutors using social media to communicate with students directly.... one such method is to utilise Instant Messaging (IM).
Whatsapp is a popular IM tool and allows for two way asynchronous communication.
Why use this technology?
Because students like it!
Have a room change? send a group text to advise students.
Want the group to revise a topic ... send them the link or information they need to self-study.
Let the class know their aims and objectives for a particular session. No problem when the group is connected via IM.
Need to communicate directly with a students 1-to-1? this is also very easy with IM.
What is very useful is that you have a record of what has been said within the group or by particular students.
Social communication within groups, externally to their classes can be enhanced by tutors using social media to communicate with students directly.... one such method is to utilise Instant Messaging (IM).
Whatsapp is a popular IM tool and allows for two way asynchronous communication.
Why use this technology?
Because students like it!
Have a room change? send a group text to advise students.
Want the group to revise a topic ... send them the link or information they need to self-study.
Let the class know their aims and objectives for a particular session. No problem when the group is connected via IM.
Need to communicate directly with a students 1-to-1? this is also very easy with IM.
What is very useful is that you have a record of what has been said within the group or by particular students.
Monday 3 February 2014
Introduction to Web Accessibility
Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to ageing.
Web accessibility encompasses all disabilities that affect access to the Web, including visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities. The document "How People with Disabilities Use the Web" describes how different disabilities affect Web use and includes scenarios of people with disabilities using the Web.
Millions of people have disabilities that affect their use of the Web. Currently most Web sites and Web software have accessibility barriers that make it difficult or impossible for many people with disabilities to use the Web. As more accessible Web sites and software become available, people with disabilities are able to use and contribute to the Web more effectively.
Designing for Inclusion
Inclusive design, design for all, digital inclusion, universal usability, and similar efforts address a broad range of issues in making technology available to and usable by all people whatever their abilities, age, economic situation, education, geographic location, language, etc. Accessibility focuses on people with disabilities — people with auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual impairments. The documents below explore some of the overlaps between inclusive design and web accessibility, and help managers, designers, developers, policy makers, researchers, and others optimize their efforts in these overlapping areas.
What you need to know about putting together your Gas Portfolio - A Pete Podcast
What you need to know about putting together your Gas Portfolio.
You can download the Word Document here.
How is this podcast useful to you as a student? Many of you will enjoy listening to music on your personal digital music player. I though it would be an excellent idea to let you listen to useful information regarding the development of your City & Guilds 6014 Gas Portfolio. In the above podcast I explain what content is required in building your portfolio of evidence.
Now regardless of wether you are travelling on the bus, or exercising at the gym you will be able to study all the time! One major advantage of using audio is you can repeat playback as often as you like! Repeat, repeat, repeat and learn.
Good luck with your learning....
more podcasts to follow.
Pete
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