We’re getting asked for eportfolios by early DiDA adopters. For those unfamiliar with the term, an eportfolio is an online repository of a student’s work. Eportfolios are the new new thing in elearning. There’s an eportfolio conference right here in Cambridge at the end of this month and I suppose I really ought to go,…

I asked Mark Leighton, author of Online Assessment in ICT for feedback on our new ‘avatar’ template. He said: I like the colours and overall style, and I like the clock feature – it is somehow less imposing than a line symbol. Yes I think this is well adapted to KS3, although we must be…

Ian Sands from St. Edmunds School in Portsmouth is both a customer for our Applied ICT GCSE online course and long-standing friend of Chalkface. Recently he asked us for a complete list of all sites linked to from within the course. There are hundreds, and it’s a list we actively maintain so it changes over…

Over at Wikitextbook, Steve is introducing compulsory registration. The idea is to encourage students to fully participate in the wiki as a group project, by assessing their individual contributions. An interesting aspect is that wiki users tend to spontaneously adopt different roles – creator, editor, provocateur and so forth – and by checking the history…

My thanks to Andrew Field and his Year 7 ICT class at Neale-Wade for some fascinating classroom observation yesterday. Some issues that came out of the visit, in no particular order: Why are school ICT networks so hard for children to use? At every school I visit, I see some children unable to use some…