Author: John Walker
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Chrome Extension for Moodle Marking: Insert Text
I was looking to insert routing comments for marking in Moodle and found Insert Text, a Chrome Extension, which I think is going to work extremely well. It has a nice folder and storage system for organization. I used Notepad++ but it was too much copy and pasting and this allows me to mark in…
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YouTube for Schools
I signed our school up for “YouTube for Schools” although there is no way to implement it. I have a proxy server in my classroom so it is trivial and as I am updating over the Holiday break I will put it in. The Tech group is unable to grasp what this is good for…
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The Moodle 2.1 Administration Map
Moodle 2.1 is here and now… so is the Moodle 2.1 Administration Map! Such was the success of the original version we couldn’t go without updating the map to include the new features of 2.1, most notably the addition of Mobile devices. Click on the image below to download an A4 version of the map.…
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Reasons To Go Back To Playing Minecraft
Reprinted from MakeUseOf. See the full article here. In case you haven’t heard, Minecraft was just officially released. Yes, the game has been available to play for a couple of years, but it was in beta. Now the beta label is gone and the game is considered – well, complete – but if you’ve…
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Minecraft and The Classroom
From this article by Chris O’Brien, How Minecraft is Taking Over The World, comes an overview of Minecraft a link that is a starting point for the discussion about its use in education. This is going to be a game we are going to play in my classroom when I can research how to use…