Active Learning Partnerships

We are looking for novel ways of using the learning log concept.  A straight diary format has had limited appeal with some of the youngsters involved.  How can we improve the experience for the next cohort of youngsters involved with ALPs?

We started our thinking skills programme today.  It was a great success and we were all ready to get ’stuck in’ to some blogging for the second half of the lesson, only to be thwarted by our pedestrian internet connection.  The pages were literally taking more than five minutes to load, quite unbearable!  However, on a [...]

I was asked this question by Don today.  I think it is important that we are as explicit as we can be regarding what we are trying to achieve with the young people on the ALPs programme.
 
As a group, measures of our success will be:
After year one each youngster will have:
completed level 1 of the [...]

Today at the ALPS induction meeting for students and staff, we ran a short training session to get staff started on using the WordPress system that’s behind this ALPS site.
We covered the essentials, such as writing Posts and Pages, adding Blogroll links, and how to add images, audio and video.
The idea is that staff will [...]