What can a VLE offer my School?
Posted by Andrew Ferrier on Dec 3rd, 2007
Enclosed is an article from the NAACE web site describing the impact of the Fronter VLE upon Ranville Infant School. It highlights the background, key features and the impact upin the teaching and learning program.
It also provides useful advice in helping schools ‘get started’
- NAACE , VLE , LGFL , Learning Platform
December 11th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
As a teacher in an infant school I found this article inspiring. I must admit to having avoided the issue of VLEs and this has given me the spur to begin the planning and research to implement this initiative. What was refreshing was to hear the opinions and ideas from other infant schools as so often we are merginalised. Have any other Bromley schools made the move to VLEs successfully for their infants?
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:26 am
We have used this article as reading for some of our teachers we consult with.
We are currently recommending Moodle as the way forward and teachers that started over the past few years using expensive commercial offerings are finding Moodle to offer more options and easier for all staff to use.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Thanks for your reply Mark. I am interested in your comments about Moodle. How does Moodle synchronise with MIS packages such as SIMS and CMIS? Is there a script that handles this or does it only use CSV files for data transfers?
April 18th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Andrew,
Have a look at this thread on the Moodle forum http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=15012 - the IMS route is the way that both SUN and a school called Parrs Wood are using as it prevents having a direct connection to the SIMS database - frowned upon I believe. Also CLEO and Lancaster University have done some work and just waiting for the go ahead.
Hope this proves useful!