Archive for October, 2004
- Science for Monks :: The “Science for Monks”:http://www.scienceformonks.org/ Web site is about science and Maths training for Bhuddist monks. The five teachers involved found teaching the workshops a challenge. Stamatis Vokos has “described a session”:http://www.scienceformonks.org/blackboard.htm in some detail. A secondary agenda is about keeping the Tibetan language current by developing a scientific vocabulary. This unusual Web page came from one [...] :: Sunday, October 31st, 2004 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Sans Institute :: “The SANS Institute”:http://sans.org/ has a good Web site where you can download articles about a wide range of topics – look for the Reading Room link from the front page. There is even a 13 page tutorial on using an Apple Mac laptop running Mac OS X as a forensic analysis station – the Mac [...] :: Friday, October 29th, 2004 :: Posted in Forensic | Comments Off
- 40 questions… :: “Download a 6 page worksheet”:http://bodmas.org/files/TestOnePractice.pdf Following the TROL example, I am adding some PDFs of worksheets here. The first is 40 short questions for revision for students taking an Access course – this first test is non-calculator. Topics covered include * Whole numbers, fractions and decimals * Percentage and simple percentage problems * Basic Unit conversion * Ratios (including foreign [...] :: Thursday, October 28th, 2004 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Teacher Resources On Line (TROL) :: “Teacher Resources On Line”:http://www.ex.ac.uk/trol/trol/index.htm has a lot of downloadable PDF files with quizzes, problems and mini-investigations. Could be useful. The “arithmetic practice”:http://www.ex.ac.uk/trol/trol/trola.pdf PDF file has 12 pages of puzzles around tables and simple arithmetic operations but presented in a puzzly way with number squares and other visual shapes. Could be handy for use with Access [...] :: Saturday, October 23rd, 2004 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Maths in vocational context :: A big thankyou to the University of Hull “Study Advice Services”:http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/ crew for making their worksheets and leaflets available online without password protection. I’ll be using the excellent “Mathematics Practice for Nursing and Midwifery”:http://www.studyadvice.hull.ac.uk/documents/NursingV1A4_000.pdf (a PDF file) available to my access students over the half term as revision and a bit of a challenge for the [...] :: Tuesday, October 19th, 2004 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Decode this… :: guvf zrffntr unf orra rapbqrq hfvat gur fvzcyr vqrn bs cynpvat gur yrggref bs gur nycunorg ebhaq n qehz naq “ebgngvat rnpu yrggre 13 cynprf”:http://geekgirl.dk/stuff/rot13.html, fb n orpbzrf z. v’yy or hfvat vg gbzbeebj jvgu fghqragf nf n fvzcyr rkrepvfr. gur fghqragf jvyy unir gb * jbex va cnvef * hfr n gnoyr bs crepragntr serdhrapvrf [...] :: Sunday, October 17th, 2004 :: Posted in Forensic, ILT | Comments Off
- Why keep it simple? :: * I suggest you use a very simple page design and navigation for course sites * In my opinion, that means… ** a home page that acts as a course diary ** a contact form ** a page with downloadable files such as the scheme of work * the course diary should have carefully chosen links added each week at [...] :: Sunday, October 17th, 2004 :: Posted in ILT | Comments Off
- The Hacker Crackdown :: Bruce Sterling’s 1992 book “The Hacker Crackdown”:http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html is still available free on the Web. Sterling had the uncommonly neat idea of reserving the digital rights to his book and putting out a free copy. As Bruce says… “The critics were very kind to The Hacker Crackdown, and commercially the book has done well. On the other [...] :: Sunday, October 17th, 2004 :: Posted in Forensic | Comments Off
- Moodle 1.35 uses a lot of php memory :: * Moodle 1.35 asks for more than 8 Mb of RAM from the php process when installing all modules * The workround is to delete modules and then continue to install * Set up the admin account and added a thumbnail (at last) which displayed properly * Got Internal Server Error on index.php * So back to Moodle 1.41 [...] :: Sunday, October 17th, 2004 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Black square problem :: * Moodle 1.4.1 has apparently a “problem with saving a blank config.php file”:http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=13210#63582 and not displaying profile images on some combinations of Apache, PHP and MySQL (including the bodmas server apparently) * Trying a download of Moodle 1.3.5 – older release * C’est la Vie * Enough of v 1.4.1 is working to evaluate the pedagogy and see [...] :: Saturday, October 16th, 2004 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Moodle is installed :: * Seems to be working OK * 14 Mb of the 25 Mb of script files are actually language packs. Missed most of them out. * Only problem so far is that I can’t get the thumbnails to display properly in the user profile – probably an image processing module missing on the bodmas server * Once files [...] :: Saturday, October 16th, 2004 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Moodle upload :: * 25Mb of scripts to upload * College connection is a bit lumpy * WS-FTP LE complains now and again so have to upload folder by folder * lang and mods are big folders :: Saturday, October 16th, 2004 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Some ideas :: The ILT category has just a few ideas that have worked for me. The emphasis is on * things that require *little preparation* other than the teaching plan * *30 minutes a week* rule * ideas that *increase interaction* between students in the classroom * ideas that *keep students in touch* with teachers, peer group or the material in [...] :: Friday, October 15th, 2004 :: Posted in ILT | Comments Off
- Using a guestbook to post links for students :: You can use a simple guestbook script (such as “Big Sam”:http://bigsam.gezzed.net/) to post links and a brief description of what was covered each week for students, especially evening students who come to College once a week and who will inevitably need to miss lessons now and again. The best strategy is to use a script [...] :: Friday, October 15th, 2004 :: Posted in ILT | Comments Off
- Blog templates changed :: * hacked “WordPress”:http://wordpress.org/ templates to match the very plain style used in the rest of the site * *not* xhtml compliant and currently no DTD specified * removed the comments link * removed all the trackback gubbins :: Friday, October 15th, 2004 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Installing Moodle :: * Moved bodmas.org to server space that should allow “Moodle”:http://moodle.org install * 24 Mb of php files in the Moodle folder so will upload from fast connection at college * Control panel not usable thru’ firewall so will have to configure from home :: Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- A lot of gateway timeouts :: * More than I have had recently * Control panel won’t get thru’ firewall – funny ports * Time delay on scripts :: Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- First it wasn’t and now it is :: * Got internal server errors on first uploading this * Now working * What gives? :: Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Hello world! :: Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! :: Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off