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many of the social media channels are blocked by academic institutions. some VLE have their own chat plugins built in, for example moodle has the chat plugin which is very similar to twitter. i have used it in the past. like all technologies this depends on the type of students that you have as some can be reluctant in posting in the chat ar…[Read more]

Hi

interesting concept. i have been trialing this out for the last couple of years, mixed results. i guess most of this depends on the type of students that we have. i am now looking at ways of taking this to the next level. one idea i have in mind is to have directed study tasks [additions to main course material] which can be applied back into…[Read more]

hi

very interesting may consider using some of these in my practice in the next academic year and see the difference it makes

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