Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Activities

We discussed the term VLE, which stands for "Virtual Learning Environment". It is a workspace containing a repository plus tools for the various task you may want to carry out in Blended Learning (or in web-enhanced or pure online learning for that matter).
The main part of the day was spent on getting to know Edmodo, which is one of the tools that are available for VLE. Another would be Moodle. However, it is not free and more complicated in use.
Ania gave a talk on how she gave her course an upgrade with a video on the idea of lumen as a measure for light output.

Technologies

We learnt how to do the following things on Edmodo.

• posts
• replies
• polls
• quizzes
• assignments
• folders
• tracking

By the way, Russell recommended using Firefox for Edmodo. And again, the iPad needs an app for Edmodo. The app has a slightly different lay-out from the website but has worked well so far.