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Science for Monks :: The Science for Monks 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 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 [...] ::
Sans Institute :: The SANS Institute 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 [...] ::
40 questions… :: Download a 6 page worksheet 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 currency) Basic probability Students will get [...] ::
Teacher Resources On Line (TROL) :: Teacher Resources On Line has a lot of downloadable PDF files with quizzes, problems and mini-investigations. Could be useful. The arithmetic practice 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 [...] ::
Maths in vocational context :: A big thankyou to the University of Hull Study Advice Services crew for making their worksheets and leaflets available online without password protection. I’ll be using the excellent Mathematics Practice for Nursing and Midwifery (a PDF file) available to my access students over the half term as revision and a bit of a challenge for the [...] ::
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, 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 bs gur yrggref [...] ::
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 the top of [...] ::
The Hacker Crackdown :: Bruce Sterling’s 1992 book The Hacker Crackdown 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 [...] ::
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 (which is on the main [...] ::
Black square problem :: Moodle 1.4.1 has apparently a problem with saving a blank config.php file 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 how usable the teacher [...] ::
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 uploaded, and the database [...] ::
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 ::
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 the periods between class [...] ::
Using a guestbook to post links for students :: You can use a simple guestbook script (such as Big Sam) 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 [...] ::
Blog templates changed :: hacked WordPress 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 ::
Installing Moodle :: Moved bodmas.org to server space that should allow Moodle 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 ::
A lot of gateway timeouts :: More than I have had recently Control panel won’t get thru’ firewall – funny ports Time delay on scripts ::
First it wasn’t and now it is :: Got internal server errors on first uploading this Now working What gives? ::
Hello world! :: Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! ::
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