Durham University PV21 project
October 24th, 2009 | written by Simon
The UK SUPERGEN programme for advanced thin film PV materials and device concepts The PV21 Renewal project is focusing attention on thin film photovoltaics (PV) which is the fastest growing PV production technology and one which has the opportunity for disruptive R&D over the period of the Renewal programme. For this project I was aked [...]
Category : Blog &Education &Joomla &Public Sector &e-Learning
Hugh Baird 360 degree feedback
October 24th, 2009 | written by Simon
Hugh Baird college are the latest organisation to take part in the Moodle-based 360 degree feedback assessment that I have developed on behalf of Oakridge Training and Consulting.
Category : 360 degree feedback &Blog &Education &Moodle &Public Sector &Web development &e-Learning
360 degree feedback tool
August 9th, 2009 | written by Simon
I have just begun a major development project on behalf of Oakridge Online for one of their largest pharmaceutical clients.
Category : Blog &Featured Work &Moodle &Projects &Recent work &Web development &e-Learning &php
playpics
July 7th, 2009 | written by Simon
playpics is a new subscription website for teachers. This new educational resource offers a large library of original images designed specially to support the primary school curriculum. The basis of this project involves a lot of image manipulation and database development while the later phases are to feature more web 2.0 online community functionality. As [...]
Category : Blog &Featured Work &MySQL &Projects &Recent work &Social networking &Web development &e-Learning &php
The evolution of content
May 19th, 2009 | written by Simon
A work collegue brought this to my attention. I thought it was so moving that just had to share it.
Category : Blog &Opinion &e-Learning
Blended learning
February 25th, 2009 | written by Simon
The Oakridge Centre in Cheshire has embraced Moodle for their Online Learning Management System. I was comissioned to intall and configure the site for them and continue to administer it and provide e-learning and technical support. ‘Blended learning is the combination of multiple approaches to learning. For example:- self-paced, collaborative or inquiry-based study. Blended learning [...]
Category : Blog &Moodle &e-Learning
Languages and Language Settings in Moodle
February 12th, 2009 | written by Simon
Knowing different languages is always an added advantage. If our website is able to communicate with people of different languages, globally the popularity of the website would go up. With Moodle, we have the option of making our site more interactive as it offers support for different languages. In this article by William Rice, we [...]
Category : Blog &Books &Moodle &Tutorials &e-Learning
UK online centres
November 13th, 2008 | written by Simon
UK online centres is part of UFI Limited, the company behind Learn Direct in the UK. UK online centres is a government-funded initiative whose role it is to support local libraries, community centres and learning centres who provide free access to computer and internet to the most digitally excluded members of our society. For two [...]
Category : Joomla &Projects &Public Sector &Recent work &e-Learning
Loquela Communication Design
November 13th, 2008 | written by Simon
http://loquela.co.uk Loquela Communication Design is my corporate brand and Loquela Limited is the company under which all my web development and consultancy is conducted. The Loquela Communication Design website is more of a corporate brochure site designed to attract businesses and educational organisations to my range of products and services.
Category : Projects &Web design &Web development &e-Learning
St Andrews Primary School, Manchester
October 16th, 2008 | written by Simon
http://st-andrewsprimary.co.uk St Andrews Primary School in Manchester is the latest to adopt my special school website management system that I produce under the banner of Educational Web Design. The theme for this site was a real challenge in CSSÂ layout and design. I have managed to create a seamless expanding blackboard effect that works equally [...]
Category : Projects &e-Learning
