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Comment on Moodle for DIDA by richard

richard — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:14:19 +0000

Unbelievable it took 5 years for me to get round to doing this. This post was spot on. Moodle is working well

Comment on Hosting Computer Control Units by richard

richard — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:41:32 +0000

http://www.mathsnet.net/logo/turtlelogo/index.html
http://www.embry.com/rLogo/
here are a couple of really basic examples

Comment on Riven and Myst by richard

richard — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:17:19 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out John. I did check out some of the videos as you suggested and I can see that Uru Live IS a polygon moving engine. I obviously got the wrong idea.

Update: Inspired by people posting snow pictures in the UK I tested a little Riven type point and click adventure down my street – not using Powerpoint but html (Dreamweaver actually) – just to give me an idea of how the kids might do it.
http://www.openk.net/images/rr_frontdoor.htm

Then I tried an alternative method on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardradio/3247536240/
look for the hotspot hyperlinks

Comment on Riven and Myst by John Johns

John Johns — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:55:58 +0000

I wanted to clarify for you:

The game that is going to be open sourced is “Myst Online”, which is a real-time 3D rendered world, rather than the powerpoint/hypercard style of the original Myst and Riven games. Myst Online was originally marketed as “Uru Live” in 2003; a quick search on YouTube for either Myst Online or Uru Live will turn up many videos created by fans of the game, and those should give you a better idea of the game’s interface.

Comment on Notes from Dida Assessment by Ian Cooper

Ian Cooper — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:54:30 +0000

Just a note to advise that the DiDA Assessment Manager is now available. Schools can sign up for half price between now and the next half term break. See this fabulous database presented in part at bertotools.com which will also give you an opportunity to request further information.

Comment on Nearly 100, LSD’s Father Ponders His ‘Problem Child’ by milesberry.net » Moodle at BETT and after

milesberry.net » Moodle at BETT and after — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:47:31 +0000

[...] coverage we were looking for, there was some great feedback in the blogosphere, from Ian Usher, ‘RichardRadio’, Sue Hutton, who’d travelled down from Birmingham to meet us, National Strategy guru Mark [...]

Comment on Toxic Childhood – Read it! by J Franklin

J Franklin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:25:33 +0000

I read this about a year or so ago. It goes well with remotely controlled about the effects of TV, and my all time favourite – four arguments for the elimination of TV (about 40 years old now).

I also liked How children learn which while aimed at young children I think is true for how people should dive in and muck around before (or instead of) formal methods and assessment.

But back to the theme of the post, children now have it bad. No adult interaction as the parents are at work, no decent food due to overworking parents or not enough money, television, media, consoles – alternatives to reality that are far too compelling/addictive.

Comment on Starting off on Dida by Marianne

Marianne — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:16:20 +0000

Dear Richard

Just found your site and was interested in reading your comments about teaching and in particular DiDA.

I know it is cheeky but do you have schemes of work that you would be prepared to send to me? For all or any of the units. I will be starting to teach these on 1 September. Unfortunately all the work that I had prepared including SoW I have left in my hotel room in Italy and I am really stuck.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Marianne

Comment on Asus EeePC : Test Drive by Ken McClure

Ken McClure — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:57:43 +0000

I’ve been talking to a few people here in Spain about the Asus eeePc. Apparently they’re being adopted not by schools but by travelling businessmen. The price makes them attractive, so does the battery life, size and the fact they are rugged.

Years ago I used to think that the future was in giving mobile devices (PDA-based) to kids to organise notes etc but this would be much better. The question I have though is how easy it would be to install a new Linux educational distribution onto them, for example based on EduBuntu. A nice little project would be for the school IT dept to personalise a distribution and make a HDD image for all the kids’ laptops (why not – same hardware). This could include not only the software for each subject, but also the shortcuts for the school email / client for their VPN access from home, the VLE shortcuts / links etc.

Now wouldn’t that make life easier for all of us?

Comment on 3 Hour Long Classes? by richard

richard — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:39:15 +0000

I’ve just done the marking for this booster session. Unfortunately, at least in terms of summative marks, there wasn’t much boosting going on. Only 8 out of 43 of students in my classes improved their grade (roughly 20%).

This is not to say that there wasn’t a lot of learning going on, Nor does it take away the fact that students will be better prepared to start the AIDA course in September.

We have another booster session next week and I would sugguest that we rethink the decision that was made to start a new separate mini project for the booster day. If we simply improved on the Mobile Phone Project – the work they have been doing all year. Almost by default everyones marks would improve. As long as they we’re really turned off by returning to work that they have not been successful with.

Also, might not more boosting have been done by holding a couple of after school sessions. All in all this might have been less taxing on teacher’s time in terms of organisation, writing the mini scheme of work, re-rooming and writing cover. In addition there would have been less negative impact on other students who missed their ICT that day.