Terry’s Blog

Heard on Radio 4 (UK) this morning: Motorists who have 4 points on their licenses for being caught by speed cameras are 50% more likely to have been involved in an accident than motorists with no points for speeding. The ‘clear message’ of this according to a road safety organisation is it is irrefutable evidence [...]

The OU Open Content initiative could be one of the most exciting things to happen in education for a very long time. The full description of the project is at http://oci.open.ac.uk/info.html. Of particular interest is Appendix K: Learning Support Tools for the Supported Open Content Environment.
The supported open content environment will be Moodle. It will be [...]

Andy Rush has a useful tutorial on how to videocast with YouTube and Wordpress. In his presentation he shows how:
[youtube=http;//www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAIXMDFFxNw]
will embed the videocast into the Wordpress blog post. This doesn’t work on Elgg but I would like to know what the code would be to achieve this, if there is any.
YouTube also gives code to [...]

Pedagogy, the art or science of teaching, initially referred to the teaching of the young (Greek - child leading). This led more recently to the coinage Andragogy to signify the teaching of adults (Greek - adult leading). Apparently  education is derived from the Latin educare meaning “to raise”, “to bring up”, “to train”.  Closer perhaps to the greek derived [...]