Category Archives: Fairies Wheel

Scratch

Like many ICT teachers I immediately fell in love with Scratch, and have been using it with all of my classes. Sratch is a programming language for kids a bit like MicroWorlds but better. I love Scratch for a number of reasons:

it is open source and free
programming is fun with its graphical building blocks
sprites […]

More on Personal Learning Environments

In my previous post Constructing a Personal Learning Environment with WordPressMU, I didn’t spend time explaining why we’re doing this and why you may want to do the same.
What is a PLE?
A PLE is a fancy name for a set of complimentary webservices which facilitate online learning. This is in direct contrast with the […]

Constructing a Personal Learning Environment with WordPressMU

During the last two years we have been using WordPress as a Personal Learning Environment. In 2006 used multiple single installs while in 2007 we moved to WordPressMU. WordPress allows us to host the software on our own Intranet so that we don’t have to worry about privacy and security, but of course we miss […]