Excellent viral encouraging US Citizens to vote in the mid-terms.

I'm disembedding this video beause it plays on start-up and is starting to annoy me now .... we all get the gist though.

This viral is brilliant. Both engaging and interactive it encourages US citizens to vote in the mid terms. Brilliant!

Best of the Student Blogs

These are some of the entries from our student blogs this week, in no particular order:

Charlotte Robinson:

Hannah Selby on the same topic

Lauren Hughes

Angus Shepherd

Paul Chandler

Kim Pyatt

Liz Tarrant

Jess Brooks

Gemma Dickens with one of a number of Tippexx references.

Ollie Gratter

Some of these are level 1, some Level 2 and some Level 3. Allcontributions have been spot on so far so if you want to read some more of our students' blogs follow these links:

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

And enjoy.

Grover from Sesame Street spoofs the Old Spice guy

You know your ad has impact when Sesame Street spoofs it:

A new academic year, some new faces, and some older ones too ...

This must be the first proper blog entry I have written in quite some time. Other than linking relevant articles and videos, I have not had a minute to sit down and write something "proper".

so the new academic year is off to a good start. Level 1s appear mature and keen and have hit the ground running with a couple of projects that will keep them busy for this Semester. Level 2s are starting to get into the swing of things and we have two new additions to the fold. level 3s are full of spirit and should hopefully hit the industry full-pelt come June.

One key new initiative that took some time to perfect is the composition of Level blogs. Let me explain, Each level (or year group) has their own blog that I manage. At first it took some thinking to work out how best to display all the students's entries without there being a heap load of admin work for me to do. Working within the confines of Blogger I feel this is now running smoothly. Each student has their own blog (it doesn't matter who the Blog provider is, but the group blog is on Blogger), and their blog is added to the "Blogs I follow" window on the group blog. This appears as the main window, each blog is identified by a hyper-linked student name, a thumbnail and the first 2 lines of their latest entry. They are ranked synchronically so the most recently updated one shows at the top of the list. The reader can then link to an individual log and read the full article. This is easy to manage and assess as there is a date and time stamp for all entries so I can see who's done what and when.

No worries so far because overall entries have been interesting and engaging. Tippexx seems to be the hottest trending topic, particularly amongst Level 3, but they are all a good start.

Look for yourselves:

Level 1:

http://trendsandvisualthinkingabm.blogspot.com/

Level 2:

http://abm-level-2.blogspot.com/

Level 3:

http://abm-level-3.blogspot.com/

I'll try and link the most interesting ones each week.

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