Archive for May, 2010

May 24 2010

Bye Bye BECTA Baby Goodbye

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So today following the latest announcement from our new coalition government we saw the final nail in BECTA’s coffin. I believe its fate was sealed as soon as Cameron wandered into number 10 a few weeks ago, with him threatening to axe all quango’s even a year ago. As I watched the press conference live [...]

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May 04 2010

Using Web 2.0 Tools to create independent learners hits the headlines

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One of the action research projects I have been working on this year was supporting students to use a ‘toolkit’ of 30 or so web 2.0 tools to enable them to become more independent learners. I recently talked about this at the Plymouth E-Learning Conference see this post: http://bit.ly/cvGV6p This project has now hit the [...]

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