All of the How To pages in this site should now give you enough information and guidance to create some resources, assess students work, create and administer exams and generally track the progress of your learners. The following sections will show you some best practice for additional guidance purposes.
Work collaboratively with peers (friends and colleagues) using collaborative tools. Do research and reference sources. Take into account safety, copyright and local rules. Make clear your individual contribution to processing the information and presenting it.
It is up to the Centre to decide how it gathers and provides learner evidence. This description assumes that this will be using the TLM Learning Site. This has the advantage of being highly integrated with the online Markbook.
Learner submits evidence through their account. There is a video explaining this here [1].
W3Schools provides a good tutorial [2]. What follows is an overview of a few of the tags that are used most often. You can learn these tags as part of your e-Portfolio:
PargraphsThe Ingot site creates paragraphs automatically, but usually when you write HTML you have to say where paragraphs start and end using the <p> tags. Like this:
<p>This is a paragraph. A paragraph is made of many sentences.</p>Headings
In HTML headings are marked with the tags <h1>, <h2>, ... down to <h6>. The top-level heading is <h1>. For example:
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Section 1HelloSection 1.1Section 1.1.1 |
<h1>Section 1</h1>
Hello <h2>Section 1.1</h2> <h3>Section 1.1.1</h3> |
Images
You insert images with the <img> tag, like this:
<img src="https://theingots.org/community/sites/default/files/uploads/u12/myPicture.png" alt="descriptive-text" />The "src" attribute ("source") contains the Internet address where the image is located. Usually, that will be a file you have uploaded. Please see How do I insert an image on a page? [3]
The "alt" attribute is what will be displayed if the address specified in src cannot be found. It is also used by screen readers for people who have poor eyesight.
Links
You make links using the href tag like this:
Please visit <a href=”https://theingots.org”>The INGOT</a> website.The "href" attribute ("hypertext-reference") contains the Internet address you want to link to. You can link to another web page or to a file you uploaded. See How do I let people download a file? [4].
Lists
There are two kinds of lists in HTML, "ordered" lists (numbered) and unordered lists (bullet points)
Ordered lists are for listing a sequence of items with a specific order. For example, the steps in a recipe for boiled eggs.
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<ol> <li>Put eggs in a pot with water.</li> <li>Boil for 5-10min.</li> <li>Remove from heat.<li> <li>Remove the egg shell.</li> <li>Enjoy.</li> </ol> |
Unordered lists are for listing items that have no particular order. For example, the primary colours:
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<ul> <li>Red</li> <li>Green</li> <li>Blue</li> </ul> |
Coursework is not grades so you have to simply meet the criteria. However, this gives you scope to really show what you can do without worrying that you might do something wrong and fail to get the best grades. Your assessor should guide you to make sure you can produce the evidence required in the coursework but then take some risks and see how far you can get beyond that.
The following links will show you work that covers this range of quality for Level 2.
They should act as guidance to give you some sort of market, but should not be viewed as definitive.
The following link [6] is to blogs that have been used in part for evidence for coursework.
The following links will show you a range of ePortfolios for different purposes.
We are currently running a CDP site [7] to allow colleagues to discuss and share ideas about resources and best practice. If you would like a login to the site, please contact paul dot taylor at theingots dot org for a login.
Links
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jDi_Rrdu2s&list=UU0Qc5AI6ck1e8gSAMZPAGlg&index=26&feature=plcp
[2] http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/
[3] https://theingots.org/community/howto#howto-image
[4] https://theingots.org/community/howto#howto-file
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvqxjZr79eE
[6] https://theingots.org/community/hall_of_fame
[7] http://portfolio.tlm-test-server.co.uk/