{"id":996,"date":"2006-02-09T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2006\/02\/09\/web-log-teaching-materials-are-now-available\/"},"modified":"2006-02-09T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T17:26:00","slug":"web-log-teaching-materials-are-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/web-log-teaching-materials-are-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Web log teaching materials are now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/support-material-for-blog-unit.html\">reported <\/a>that we were working on support materials for the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/files\/nu\/DN81_11.pdf\">Web Log unit<\/a> [PDF]. We took the unusual step of producing the teaching material as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiki\">wiki<\/a>. The material is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Weblogs:An_Introduction\">now available <\/a>via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikibooks.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikibooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wikis appear to be well suited to this purpose. This technology offers the prospect of mass participation in curriculum development &#8211; rather than the traditional top-down approach to the production of teaching and learning material. So it will be interesting to see how this material evolves.<\/p>\n<p>A NAB pack is in production and will be available in a couple of months. More information from <a href=\"mailto:\">Angela<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I reported that we were working on support materials for the new Web Log unit [PDF]. We took the unusual step of producing the teaching material as a wiki. The material is now available via Wikibooks. Wikis appear to be well suited to this purpose. This technology offers the prospect of mass participation in curriculum development &#8211; rather than the traditional top-down approach to the production of teaching and learning material. So it will be interesting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}