Martin is a ninja! And I don't get Kolb – here's why

[imogenbertin]

Actually, I’m going to winge about BBForum. Each post I have to spend about 5-10 minutes sorting out line break issues. Often I can’t because it won’t let me edit them. Bullet points don’t work. Grrrr! Pain in the ass… Can’t post pictures…

[philtubman]

=I did this with a course last year where we did the first semester teaching “building block” skills from Blackboard, then the second with students creating WordPress portfolios and recording a variety of other activities. To be honest I’d just leave out the VLE entirely if I could another time because most VLEs are just extra technology stress for learners and their interfaces are so poor compared to the social networks that learners judge them by.

LTI Bb and WordPress together for a seamless transition from one to the other… no double logon…

http://www.imsglobal.org/toolsinteroperability2.cfm

[GraphDesProject]

Imogen and Phil,

I quite like the idea of a VLE. We use Moodle with our f2f learners but it is totally one way – from us to them; they cannot upload anything to it so it’s just a “headquarters” for info and resources. They do all their input in WordPress (mainly) blogs or even is sketchbooks by hand. They strat to use Moodle and WordPress as soon as they get on the course (in fact, some of them start beforehand as we advise interviewess to set up a WP if they haven’t already got one and to rehearse what can be done with it).

However, with my online learners, who are all asynchronous, I as yet have no equivalent of a VLE. They don’t need it for course material and resources as that is all in a PDF. But they could do with a place for extra ad hoc info/news and indeed a place to meet up and discuss FAQ type issues. I’ve tried MyStudy Cloud which seemed great but – as you know – I have had endless troubles using it, so it doesn’t seem as user-friendly as it ought to be.

So I wouldn’t leave out a VLE; just keep it simple and useful. And yes, para breaks have driven me mad!!!

Sancha

[philtubman]

@Sancha – have you thought of doing something in a G+ community rather than a VLE? I have recently started to think that this provides lots of ‘social’ VLE activities (and a synchronous ‘hangout’ if required…)

(it will aggregate you WP blogs and provide a space for structured social interaction – look at the ocTEL one if you haven’t already…)

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