Today is a special day for Moodle – it is 8 years old (well, 11 actually from the very first trial)! A lot has been written about Moodle, less about its founder and lead developer Martin Dougiamas or ‘Moodler‘ as he likes to nick himself. I work with the guy and I thought I’d share …
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May 13
Invited
Our first demo course for the new Moodle Educational Demo Site has wrapped up nicely. Thanks to 40 participants from around the world, we generated some useful sample data and activities for people to see, dip in, even download and play with (now available at ‘standard’ Moodle Demo site ). Most importantly, we hope that …
May 04
What makes a great Moodle course? Part 1 – What is a course?
What is a course? Introduction Reading Wikipedia like Britannica sucks. Reading Wikipedia like Wikipedia is mind-opening. Cory Doctorow (http://www.edge.org/discourse/digital_maoism.html) What is mind opening about reading Wikipedia? Click ‘Discussion’ on a popular or contentious Wikipedia entry and you’ll see. The history, variety of views, contributions, changes, updates, the links, the enormity of effort across even one …
Apr 22
Serious fun in Water!
The world of water: http://www.flickr.com/photos/snapr/484776493/ “Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” (Chinese proverb) At the start of this week, we opened Water! – a demo Moodle course designed to show not what Moodle can do but primarily what people can do with Moodle (while of …
Mar 31
A Prezi
Nothing terribly brainy from me today… I gave up on Prezi twice before but last couple of evenings I finally got my head around it. It takes a little getting used to conceptually (endless depth and width of canvas) but it is a fun tool with some pretty cool final output. Here is little presentation …
Mar 19
Community Cookbook
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deqalb/1497728891/ It’s finally here … but with a great twist! I have been meaning to write a cookbook of recipes for using Moodle in education for nearly two years now (just ask Julian “Moodleman” Ridden!) Last year, I suspended writing one with Packt Publishing about halfway through (personal reasons) but I remain eternally grateful …
Mar 10
Tools, drools and fools
Enjoyed the 2 minutes of one of the greatest scenes (and cuts) in film history? The classic of “technology as an extension of human power”… I have long been interested in the debate about Learning Management Systems (LMS, often called VLE in the UK) and have read several papers and many (ranty) anti-LMS and pro-LMS …
Feb 17
Making Moodle boring
Since starting to work at Moodle HQ as Education Researcher, a number of people, including my family, have been curious about what is it like at Moodle HQ, what do I do in my role and so on. Well, here are the pictures, the rest are words… In short, I borrow Martin’s words from the …
Feb 13
Forum – the heart of Moodle (iMoot reflection #1)
Huh, the iMoot is over! Judging by the feedback through various channels, the inaugural world online Moot was a resounding success. Congratulations and sincere thanks again to the iMoot crew, particularly to Leonie Beetham, Shane Elliot & Julian Ridden. It was great to listen to so many passionate and clever moodlers, it was also great …
Jan 31
Calling all moodlers
iMoot, the world’s first online MoodleMoot (‘moot’ is a word of ancient origin used to popularly name gatherings of Moodle users and developers around the world) is kicking off this coming week, Thursday 4 February to Sunday, 7 February 2010. Quick numbers: 31 timezones, 210 countries, 40 presenters in 3 streams … all unlimited for …
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