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Welcome to the learning event generator (LEG)

this is the place where the "legwork" goes on to build the lists and ideas that drive the various event generators if you are new to the LEG click here to see the latest version.

Just Launched.. the homework self-medicator - Teacher to busy to set homework? no worries send them here and they can generate their own learning challenge

For Summer 2009 a few of you have suggested that we should target the As pot - how about a list of "a thousand ways to show what you know" before 2009 slides into 2010 . Several teachers have been using the As list as a reference when they do their weekly planning - so let's help them and each other by growing the list.

Someone noted recently that "when you see activities like the LEG - you sense that the arbitrary curriculum divisions that stop many students seeing the "interconnectedness of knowledge" will soon shudder and start to fall." Hurrah to that! Maybe the age of the truly cross-curricular international learning opportunity is about to dawn. 800 visitors in our first week tells us that it's worth pushing on - well done to everyone. Now we just need to make sure that we broaden the opportunity to contribute and get submissions from around the globe .

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Many thanks to Richard Clarke who has adapted the LEG to run as an Excel Spreadsheet you can download and edit your own lists here..

Many thanks to all we now have close to 150 options in the main Do & As pots so we can now make a generator that will have 22,500 options - hopefully that will get that sorted and linked in by the 20th November . The plan is soon to make an online generator that you can load yourself with ideas from the lists as well as elsewhere. Also beginning to realise that it's the small and subtle generators that people are making that have as much or even more to offer than one massive million options at a click dream! My thoughts at the moment is ...lets have both. For the As pot why not have a collection of "homages" ...Tom & Jerry...

The idea for the LEG came out of desire to nudge learners (and teachers) and also to give them permission to move beyond the "comfort zone" of talk-look-listen-write and allow them instead to move across a whole chessboard of modalities and activities. The classic generator runs on the command do....something...as ...something and these two lists are available and editable by you on this wiki. Soon we will add lists for specific subjects and activities. The embryonic

Event Generator Green

for example runs on the commands Do.......While.

I thought the best way forward for the learning event generator would be to set up this simple wiki and invite all those interested in developing the generator to join in. Here we can add our ideas to a growing (and increasingly hyperlinked) set of lists. I also want to close the loop by feeding back examples of work the LEG has provoked - if you have a piece of work that you would like featured upload it to this page. Some teachers might even want to set work and let students choose a format for the output from the As po

t list.

What's more you can take away the ideas that chime with you and paste them into our own custom generator(soon I'll set up a download page - until then email me for your copy). Get started now by browsing and adding to the Do List - the imperative that is at the heart of the active learning approaches that the LEG champions. After that you might want to pop by and see what you think of the

As List

- again leave some ideas if you can. If you are a guest visitor please leave a name or a nickname along with a comment so we know who to thank as the list grows.

When you have finished browsing and hopefully adding to the various lists click

here

to go back to the online Learning Event Generator Factory.

Many thanks all

Finally I want to try and keep track of contributiors as the project grows so please edit yourself in here if you are missing (or remove yourself if you seek anonymity! or email me below and I'll do either for you. Thanks again to

Angela Davitt, Eliza Mountford, Steve Duffy, Virginia Schonwald, Eveleyn Wassel, Reshan Richards, Rick Tanski, Valerie Becker, Mary Hamilton, David Solon, Bradley Bergey,Melinda Shaum, Richard Millwood, Gill Kelly, Andrés A. Richner-Maldonado, Samantha Thom, Dave Garland Ewan M, Charlene Chausis, Jonathan Furness, Michael Purdy and Merlin John who have given lots of good ideas to get us this far. If we can get 1000 options in either box by Christmas 08 the LEG will generate a million different learning events - here's hoping. Coming soon infant and junior graphical generators with extra guidance

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