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A Beacon award for mobile learning!
We have had a couple of loyal, enthusiastic user-groups who have been involved with mobile learning from our earliest public trials back in 2003 right through to today.
One of them, Pembrokeshire College on the beautiful west coast of Wales, has just won a Beacon Award for their use of mobile learning.
Congratulations to Geoff Elliot and the team!
One of them, Pembrokeshire College on the beautiful west coast of Wales, has just won a Beacon Award for their use of mobile learning.
Congratulations to Geoff Elliot and the team!
They have been doing amazing work, and deserve all the credit coming your way. (Geoff is the guy hiding at the back of the photo taken from the college news page)
For those not yet in the know, Beacon Awards recognise imaginative and innovatory teaching and learning practice. In the case of Pembrokeshire they won the FENC award with recognises the leading work they are doing allowing learners to build their own learning via collaboration and sharing.
The FENC ethos is: "Take, Shape and Share" - and Geoff's team have made that work via mobile learning.
This news is so hot off the press, that at the time of writing, the AoC Beacon site doesn't even have this years winners listed yet!
For those not yet in the know, Beacon Awards recognise imaginative and innovatory teaching and learning practice. In the case of Pembrokeshire they won the FENC award with recognises the leading work they are doing allowing learners to build their own learning via collaboration and sharing.
The FENC ethos is: "Take, Shape and Share" - and Geoff's team have made that work via mobile learning.
This news is so hot off the press, that at the time of writing, the AoC Beacon site doesn't even have this years winners listed yet!
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