Three of sixteen of BECTA's "ICT in Practice Awards" go to Moodlers

Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on January 13, 2006

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British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) is the principal government agency responsible for IT and ICT in compulsory education in the UK. Every year at the annual British Educational Technology Tradeshow (BETT) they give awards for best practice is a whole range of categories within their remit. This year, three of the sixteen awards went to Moodle users in part for their work with Moodle.

The Moodlers are: Miles Berry(free account required) of St Ives School (Video and blurb), Haslemere, Syd Rimmer of Barking College (Video and blurb) and Ian Green of Sandwell College (Video and blurb).

Miles is a highly effective teacher and thinker, blending technical knowledge, enthusiasm and pedagogical theory. He has overseen huge changes in the ICT provision at St Ives School in the last five years, taking it forward to be a community that is confident in the use of technology. Eager to try new ways of working, almost everything that he has done has been achieved with Open Source free software.

In his lessons, he uses many types of technology to help children learn. His use of maths and art software has helped pupils to better understand various concepts like tessellations and symmetry and has also produced stunning visual work.

Miles's greatest innovation at St Ives has been the introduction of an open source Virtual Learning Environment, to take the best of the classroom into the pupils' home. Children have embraced it as a way of getting immediate feedback on homework tasks, accessing resources while out of school, working collaboratively with classmates and teachers, using the discussion boards and other sites available through the VLE, and also reviewing their lessons, through recordings of sessions that are streamed on the site.

The VLE is having a big impact on the independence of learners and the ease with which teachers can track pupils' progress. He is keen to continue developing the use of the resource, hoping to further explore its effect on learning at St Ives.

Is Moodle where the bright-young-things in ICT best practice in education are?

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		Three of sixteen of BECTA's "ICT in Practice Awards" go to Moodlers Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on January 13, 2006 Miles Berry Originally uploaded by Stuart Yeates. British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) is the principal government agency responsible for IT and ICT in compulsory education in the UK. Every year at the annual British Educational Technology Tradeshow (BETT) they give awards for best practice is a whole range of categories within their remit. This year, three of the sixteen awards went to Moodle users in part for their work with Moodle. The Moodlers are: Miles Berry(free account required) of St Ives School (Video and blurb), Haslemere, Syd Rimmer of Barking College (Video and blurb) and Ian Green of Sandwell College (Video and blurb). Miles is a highly effective teacher and thinker, blending technical knowledge, enthusiasm and pedagogical theory. He has overseen huge changes in the ICT provision at St Ives School in the last five years, taking it forward to be a community that is confident in the use of technology. Eager to try new ways of working, almost everything that he has done has been achieved with Open Source free software. In his lessons, he uses many types of technology to help children learn. His use of maths and art software has helped pupils to better understand various concepts like tessellations and symmetry and has also produced stunning visual work. Miles's greatest innovation at St Ives has been the introduction of an open source Virtual Learning Environment, to take the best of the classroom into the pupils' home. Children have embraced it as a way of getting immediate feedback on homework tasks, accessing resources while out of school, working collaboratively with classmates and teachers, using the discussion boards and other sites available through the VLE, and also reviewing their lessons, through recordings of sessions that are streamed on the site. The VLE is having a big impact on the independence of learners and the ease with which teachers can track pupils' progress. He is keen to continue developing the use of the resource, hoping to further explore its effect on learning at St Ives. Is Moodle where the bright-young-things in ICT best practice in education are? Awards \| BECTA \| BETT \| Miles Berry \| Moodle Stuart's blog Login or register to post comments 3479 reads
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