Archive for 2006

GCSE topics

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Last minute favorites for the non-calculator Module 5 paper

Digital speech recorders

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Cheaper digital speech recorders can’t produce CD quality but may have plenty of uses in the classroom – just put an external mic on!

Moodle at shefcol

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Moodle at Shefcol according to Julia DugglebyBlogging by meSeb Schmoller’s fortnightly mailing is now published by typepad. Seb is inviting guest contributions, and I was honoured to be asked to contribute. I wrote about using blogger as a way of getting colleagues interested in online support. My contribution meshed in with Julia’s about the next [...]

Lectures on demand

Friday, May 26th, 2006

“Some lecture classes have 250 students, so I question the effectiveness of a didactic lecture for an hour.”
Dr Bill Ashraf will be distributing lectures by podcast soon in place of live lectures in a theatre. In groups of 250 plus I can see his point: no one ever asks a question in a group of [...]

Aggregation

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

When is a crime rate valid?