Educational Web Resources:
Latest Internet Projects
Friday, 16 May 2008.
Moodle Development: since September 2007, the bulk of my time has gone into my VLE projects. I plan to spend the summer working on the Moodle Teacher Certificate.
I have a sandboxed demo course for educators who would like to experience a little of what Moodle has to offer. Each month, I plan to change topic, offering previous courses as downloadable backups. The current topic is: using Scratch to author interactive fiction interactivities.
From July 2008: a pair of sites - part of my A Level Applied ICT development work - the Computer Programming Class website uses postnuke as a content management system; Portfolios will contain example blogs, templates and other exercises related to the subject.
The next phase of development for educator.pro - a resource site for professional educators - is now underway. The content of the old teachers' forum is now integrated into a new Joomla-based portal site with a links directory and a few other interesting features.
The ICT specialist website is still taking shape. It may have taken me over four years to get to the point of developing it - but, as I said a long time ago. Given the choice between reading a bedtime story or debugging a script, it's the website development that's going to go on hold. The site so far contains some of the PowerPoint presentations, teaching notes and worksheets I would give to my Key Stage 3/Middle School-age and Key Stage 4/High School/IGCSE ICT students, along with some simple puzzles, quizzes and games.
Between June and August 2008, I'll be working on the next phase of development for www.mathgames.info, the Mathematical Games Creation Weblog and another collection of fun mathematical games. Around Autumn 2008, I'm plaaning to launch two new sites: Numeracy Games and Literacy Games, along with companion support sites for Numeracy Projects and Literacy Projects.
Virtual Learning Environments
From September 2007, my Moodle resources moved to V-L-E.com, along with resources hosted by my colleagues in Kuwait for Kuwait English School as well. My plan is to eventually widen the scope of the V-L-E site to host teachers at other international schools in the Middle East who need assistance in getting started with Moodle.
Going Mobile: a mobile Virtual Learning Environment! It may sound simple. But if you have ever tried to look at a Moodle site on a mobile phone (or an emulator), you will know why I'm putting together a simple prototype...
Other Site News: After a number of server moves, I ended up with a couple of cheap reseller accounts to act as emergency backup hosting in order to minimise downtime, along with a VPS for hosting my main projects. Development work is slowly, but surely taking place across a number of fronts.
Other projects for Autumn 2008 include expanding the Global Communities project.
From December 2007 the Reserved Word educational entrerprise project became entirely independent of this site. The innovative extra-curricular work I began in 2002 on Internet entrepreneurship for high-school students will move to the l-earn.com website to be launched in Autumn 2008.
A new look for the Interactivities Forum - during Summer 2008 there will be further refurbishment for the web-based forum at www.interactivities.net and a relaunch of the weblog at www.interactivity.org. I shall tidy up some of the loose ends at the support site and give all three sites a common look and feel. In the winter, I'll then be in a position to develop a new Interactivities project.
Interactive Educational Multimedia:
Mathematical Interactivities - A collection of about 60 educational games and puzzles covering a wide variety of mathematical topics.
The Interactivities Forum's Resource Site
Award-winning Interactive Stuff:
Tessellations and Islamic Patterns - a TwinSite 2000 collaboration
Making Measurements - mathematical interactivities inspired by a visit to the Science Museum in London
Telecommunications Interactivities - another Science Museum STEM Project site.
Popular Web Pages:
Algebra Flash! practise solving linear, simultaneous and quadratic equations.
Random Educational Quote Generator
Random Shakespearian Insult Generator
The Frog Puzzle a mathematical investigation based on a traditional puzzle.
Advent Calendar and Candle written in JavaScript.
International Education Articles:
Global Learn Day should hopefully take place around the time of International Education Week in Mid November 2008. When I find out more, I'll post some information here.
My presentations for Global Learn Day 2 and Global Learn Day 3. They date back to 1998 and1999, but they help to explain how my interest in interactive multimedia in the classroom has developed.
At some point, I will have to add re-worked versions of my old IteachNet articles and my 1996-7 guide to becoming an international educator.
Other Projects
I've started work on a blogging resources website. Mainly aimed at getting people started from a range of viewpoints.
Spiritual Things
I've been helping a friend sort out a site for his Gospel Magic e-book - well worth a visit. And another gospel magician - the Magician's Apprentice now has a website to showcase his talents.