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Geoff Riley FRSA – Eton 2nd December 2010
Geoff Riley, Tutor2u
Creativity favours the connected mind
Ideas flow from Slow Hunches & Space to Mingle
Eight Years developing Tutor2u
Geoff Riley, Tutor2u
Tutor2u
• Materials are bought by 3,500 schools and colleges in UK and in over 85 other countries
• 110,000 blog page impressions per day• Global Alexa traffic rank of 24,847 (4,200 in the UK)• 75,000 unique web users each day• 4,500 fans on Facebook since launch in Oct 2010• Moodle VLE for over 130 Economics Departments• No standard platform – we use different software to
meet different needs – as do many teachers!
Publishers and IT people don’t get it!
• They don’t properly understand school budgets• They under-utilise social media and don’t harness
the creativity and energy within teacher communities
• Few teachers want to be locked into expensive proprietary software
• Fewer still have the time to master industry standard kit even though their IT department might prefer it!
• Most teachers choose a mix of apps for their work and this combination evolves over time
A Daily Teaching Toolbox
DropBox Snagit Wordle Expression Engine RSS Feeds
Creativity: The Power of Free
Moodle 2.0• Open source learning environment• Global community of >1 million passionate teachers
Google Docs• Brilliant (free) flexible tool for collaborative work• Peer assessment and editing
Twitter• Rich and dynamic flow of ideas, links, information• Growing subject communities for help and support
Creativity in the Open Source Crowd
Taking bigger risks
Using Google Docs for Collaborative Work
Google Docs
• Real time collaboration – using some Google Wave technology!
• Use chat to discuss work through messaging• Many options for peer and teacher review of work• Collaborative work can be easily exported into other
formats e.g. Pdf files and into student / group blogs• Great opportunities for
– Creative writing– Pooling data and ideas– Revision work ahead of exam papers– Collaborative work with teaching colleagues within and between
schools
Social Constructionism – Lots of Options!
Student Blogs and Journals
Collaborative Documents
Practicals and Simulations
Student Generated Glossaries
Forums and Discussions
Self-Mark Quiz Activities
Student Presentations /
Debates
Problem Based Learning
Conditional activities