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Stable Door by DavidT2006 A couple of weeks ago I answered a few questions for a forthcoming piece in the Guardian on ePortfolios. Here in Bucks we haven't committed to an ePortfolio yet, for a whole number of reasons (chief of these being a lack of clarity and guidance on what 'counts' as an ePortfolio). I was reminded of this vagueness on starting to read the article in the printed paper and

So here I must apologise. I have been having all the fun and not sharing my learnings as I go. I will give myself a virtual slap on the back of the hand and start blogging again. Anyone who notices I slacken off again should email, twitter or skype me another virtual slap on the back of the hand, or try some positive motivational method to get me to share what I have been and am doing.

MoodleMoots:

I have had the extreme pleasure of attending MoodleMoots in: Brisbane Australia; Napier New Zealand; Rome Italy; Barcelona Spain. I presented at two of these moots and ran one full day workshop for  teachers new to using Moodle. My presentations were based on inspiring teachers to find creative and engaging ways to use some of the Moodle tools; I focused on glossaries and databases in Moodle and we tried some activities in the presentations that might help teachers to see the possibilities with these examples. Slideshare has a copy of my presentation (setting the scene) and a sprinkling of the examples and ideas are on the elearning school site. 

I took many photos at the MoodleMoots and around the areas I travelled, so you are welcome to peruse and see snippets of the moments shared caught in still forever. They are on flickr with appropriate tags - try moodlemoot tag first off or check groups, that way you see images uploaded by lots of different people. I am half way through uploading my images (as there are hundreds) but they will all be there within the week. 

More blogging to come!

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What seems like an age ago I was contacted by Becta to ask if I could recommend some schools who had progressed well with their Virtual Learning Environments Learning Platforms (I'll explain the amendment in a moment). There were many candidates to choose from, but some of the most interesting work was being done at Buckingham Primary School and Chalfonts Community College. Becta said that they

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Sometimes, the BBC provides an object lesson in the art of being open. The new Common Platform blog by Steve Bowbrick on open content, open culture and sharing at the Beeb is the sort of thing to get people like Theo Kuchel excited and revved up about the wealth of content which sits somewhere in West London and the potential for opening it up. At other times, there's a (hopefully unintentional)

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According to a post on the PC Pro News pages 12 "open-source companies" (I think it's the software they support that's open source, rather than the companies themselves, but hey) have made the list for the Software for Educational Institutions Framework, which means that they can supply schools with Open Source software without the schools having to feel like they'd bought it from a bloke down

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After a bit of a lie in following a long journey back from Torquay yesterday I'm going to Cookham this morning (famous for Stanley Spencer's paintings) to speak to a conference of governors from one of our secondary schools. The school in question has been unsure about choosing a VLE for a long, long time and has committed to using Moodle. So, what would I say to them?
Just in time Mark

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The penultimate keynote is by Jim Gamble from CEOP - the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. This is an overview of CEOP and some information about the myths around online child abuse. CEOP has to have a police officer as its head. The police are very good at making mistakes start from a position of ignorance:fear what you don't understand;keep what you fear at arm's length;Psions

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My chosen parallel session this afternoon is by John Stein, Prof of Physiology, Chair of the Dyslexia Research Trust.
"People who know nothing always have strong opinions".
What do we know about learning?
This feels like it's going to be one of those sessions you couldn't get anywhere else. Food for the brain (which sums up two of Professor Stein's areas of interest - oh, and he's Rick's brother

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Fiona Aubrey-Smith from Uniservity is presenting on how to extend learning opportunities in infant schools. She used to work in a two form entry infants school in an Armed Forces catchment area and now works for Uniservity. (I overheard a rumour at the Naace exhibition yesterday that Capita might be looking to take over Uniservity, I wonder if that will happen?).

Her first slide is Start Small