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Friday September 3rd 2010
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Video: Embedding Video in Moodle

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Here’s a quick overview of the process of embedding video into Moodle webpages.  Enjoy!

Direct link: http://goo.gl/JWCh

LSU Eunice builds their own Moodle Mobile App for #iOS

There’s a new trend for Moodling higher education institutions: enable mobile access to your Moodle either through a unique mobile URL or native app.  LSU Eunice is one of the most recent to do so (we covered CSUMB earlier) providing students with to access their Moodle site using a unique URL: http://mycourses.lsue.edu.  According to the site,

myMobile extends campus services to students anywhere they might be.  As part of the suite of mobile services provided at LSU Eunice, access to myCourses provides students with on-the-go access to online coursework.

http://www.lsue.edu/site.php?pageID=281

Looks good.

Check out a few of the screenshots:

4 Intro Moodle Videos from @ciscoinstitute

Here’s a collection of short videos highlighting a few easy Moodle tricks, including the file upload process from @ciscoinstitute.   You can also check out their Moodle at http://ciscoinstitute.net/.

Direct video links:

Bonjour, ciao, & hallo Moodlers! Now you can read Moodlenews in other languages

Moodlenews is now using the Google Translate widget, read it any any number of supported languages.

Just use the drop down to choose.

Want to add the functionality to your Moodle?  Just install the code [http://translate.google.co.uk/translate_tools?hl=en] in a sticky HTML block et voila!

Here’s a video the explains the process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1inZK3kXiE

Video: Goomoodleikiog 4 Students by @leighmurrell & @HeidiBeez

I’m a fan of the original Goomoodleikiog video by Leigh Murrell (@leighmurrell) and Heidi Beezley (@heidibeez), but this follow up video explaining the technologies to students is just too good not to share.

Here’s a link to their website: http://goomoodleikiog.com

And to the video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE0dzbVMaQ

O-M-G.

News Flash: mTouch+ (#iPad app) is coming VERY SOON

mTouch+ ( mTouch for iPad ) In Review

We have uploaded mTouch+ , mTouch for iPad, for review on the AppStore.
mTouch+ will be available for download within couple of days.

Stay tuned…

From http://www.pragmasql.com/133/section.aspx/124

Should be a great alternative to mPage and mBook.  I’m excited to see it.

Opinion – #Facebook, Teachbook and Teacher Collaboration

You might have heard of Teachbook.  It’s the website getting sued by social networking behemoth, Facebook for infringing on the use of the “[insert random word here]book” brand that Facebook has ever so diligently built (note sarcasm).  Considering that Facebook’s name itself is lifted from a product that was once in print, I’m not a fan of the litigation.  Not to mention that they’ve taken it all a step further and are moving to protect use of the word “face” as well.

Dear Mark Zuckerburg,

Stop it.

Anyways, what most people don’t know about Teachbook is that the collaboration it promotes occurs at least in part on a Moodle site.  (Where’s your Moodle, Facebook?)  On the Teachbook Moodle, while there are only 8 courses, you can see the level of collaboration within those courses by the number of co-facilitators/teachers enrolled.

According to the site:

When you join Teachbook, you can:
+Manage your professional profile and all information in your account by choosing to share with administrators, colleagues, parents or public
+Create and search lesson plans, instructional videos, and other teaching resources
+Manage your classroom communications with secure parent-teacher communication tools, such as a gradebook, events calendar, classroom newsletter, and homework space
+Communicate and connect with colleagues though discussion, chat, blogs, and more
+Gain new teaching knowledge and insights from like-minded professionals in groups
+Create and manage online courses and instructional modules
+Enable teachers to manage their student grades by recording, calculating, and sharing them in a secure online gradebook.

Teachbook is taking the social aspects of the web and going one further by providing both the training and the tools necessary to master the use of online course management systems.  I think it could be a hit service and community.  Even if it has to change it’s name.

Note, at the publishing of this post there existed a redirect issue on the Teachbook Moodle site (always returning you to the home page).  A support ticket was submitted to Teachbook staff to alert them of the issue.

Poll: @catspyjamasnz asks ‘How many Moodle Tools do you use in your average course?’

Just helping to spread the word of this poll by Joyce Seitzinger (aka @catspyjamasnz)

Moodle 2.0 update: August RC1 Release Date Missed

According to the Moodle docs, a 1st Release Candidate was scheduled to be available by the end of August, but with that date missed and a flurry of QA activity still underway it’s possible that Moodle 2.0 will still get an official September release.

For more information visit: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_2.0_release_notes

Here’s to hoping.  Stay tuned for QA testing information to find out how you can help out.

Moodle by another name

Last week we asked the twitterverse what other names they had adopted for their Moodle (it’s a great name/acronym, but lots of schools call it by something entirely different).  The most popular?  iLearn.  Here’s a sampling (including the landing pages) of the various euphemisms for Moodle sites around the world:

Does your Moodle go by another name?  Are their benefits or downsides in branding it uniquely?  Let us know in the comments.

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