A simple experiment in my classroom confirmed what I believed for a while – the eyeline is the buyline in the classroom as well as the supermarket. A box of tissues normally lasts about a week, but moved away from the front of the classroom, one box lasted three weeks. Whether there were more sniffs [...]
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Feeding Back on Student Feedback
October 13th, 2009 by admin
I am about to carry out a school-wide feedback experiment, but first a little background reflecting! It is perhaps as common in Teaching as it is in other professions, but we tend to let negativity cancel out a disproportionate amount of praise. A successful parent’s evening can be brought down by one comment, and have [...]
Tags: Experiment, feedback, google form, response, students
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Girls participate five times more online than offline: An Investigation
September 1st, 2009 by admin
The results of a small-scale study I have been conducting recently have indicated that, yes, girls contribute up to five times more than in offline discussions. Using the celebrated Edmodo social platform for education, I ran an experiment which involved perception of participation, online and offline discussions, and transcribed the results.
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Back to Black(boards): How less on the board is sometimes more
August 7th, 2009 by admin
I am a keen cook but hopeless with it. Just last week I failed to put yeast into a bread recipe. As a result, I have plenty of recipe books, which are able to open to favoured recipes by way of crumbs, spills and other detritus creating a visual bookmark. I believe that learners can [...]
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A comparison of offline and online discussions among children, in relation to the factors that contribute to dominance in these areas
March 18th, 2009 by admin
An investigation into what factors which contribute to dominance in physical and online discussions, and are there areas which allow these factors to cross over?
Tags: communicate, discussion, dominance, E844, edmodo, investigation, offline, online, OU, research, reticence
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