My big(gest) lessons and reminders of 2011: The importance of doing what you love doing in your career. I never have or will regret joining Moodle HQ but I never have or will regret leaving Moodle HQ this year either. Thank you Martin & Moodle HQ. I love Moodle and its community but I am …
Category Archive: 1. Moodle
Resources and writings about Moodle
Jul 21
Great Moot but …
Quick slideshow… This is what I tweeted at the end of 2011 Australian Moodle Moot 2011: To sum up #mootau11: We flew First Class! Thank you @ns_allanc [Allan Christie] and @netspot crew. It was truly wonderful. Great ideas, great people, great venue, great organisation, great community vibe. It was a three day Moodle love-in. Highlights …
Jul 09
Leaving Moodle HQ
I didn’t think I would be writing this roughly a year and a half after joining HQ but here it is. On Friday, 22nd July, a few days after returning from the Australian MoodleMoot in Sydney with the team (and Mary Cooch, hooray) I will resign from a paid position at Moodle HQ and become …
Jun 02
Born today – Moodle Docs 2.0
Early this year, Martin (Dougiamas) gave me a ‘brief’ for a new version of Moodle Docs, a ‘Moodlepedia’ created by and for members of Moodle community. Main two points of the brief: create a clear, navigable structure for a ‘Moodle manual’ of a kind, draft an overview of: what is there, what needs updating to …
Mar 08
The only, the biggest and the friendliest Moot
Moodle Moots are particularly named gatherings of Moodle users, developers, enthusiasts (from) around the world. They are famous in Moodle community and beyond for their community spirit of learning with and from each other (and let’s not forget their social side either). They are special and I am really looking forward particularly to a few …
Mar 04
Ed-tech Ferrari in first gear – why change?
This is a reply to a healthy ‘ring’ of posts by Mark Drechsler (Learning technologies – should the tail wag the dog? – an excellent string of replies growing there!), David Jones (The dissonance between the constructivist paradigm and the implementation of institutional e-learning) and Mark Smithers (e-learning at Universities: A Quality Assurance Free Zone?). I …
Jan 31
Nobody asks
Last week, I was invited to a high school as an ‘expert’ on using Moodle in the classroom. I had a series of 45-minute sessions to, as my brief read, ‘inspire’ each group of teachers (average size of about 15-20) over two days of PD to use their nice local Moodle & Mahara setup in …
Dec 17
Christmas present for Moodlers
I have been waiting for a few months to write this … school is out, just announced on moodle.org ! The Mount Orange School Demo that is. What started as an in-house bashing pinata for testing Moodle 2.0 at HQ in ways likely to be used by educators is now (officially) ready for play. And …
Nov 30
Moodle 2 intro clips
In my role as Educational Researcher at Moodle HQ, I get to play around with things a bit. Over the last week or so, I got to create a series of short clips to introduce some of the main new and redesigned features of the recently released Moodle 2.0. Here they come … in a …
Nov 16
Moodle Community hubs – what, how, why
Very early this morning (3am! :-O) I had the pleasure of co-presenting a session at the Global Education Conference (wonderful event, more Moodle sessions there too!) with Tabitha and John Roder, talking about Moodle community and ways in which Community hubs, new feature in Moodle 2.0, will support and encourage Communities of Practice across the …
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