‘News’ Archives
Congratulations to Marie Sciangula for winning the Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion book giveaway! #MDL2CC
Quick note to congratulate Marie Sciangula for winning the Moodle 2.0 Course Conversion book giveaway sponsored by Packt Publishing. Over 70 readers participated in the giveaway through tweeting and commenting. Thanks for reading!
Apply by 2/3 for an Official Blogger Pass to the Ireland/UK Moot #Mootieuk12
If you're a blogger who's planning on attending the Ireland/UK Moodle Moot this coming April you have until Friday, February 3rd to apply to land an Official Blogger Pass for the event (which means you get in for free): http://moodlemoot.ie/calling-bloggers/. Registration for the event is now open and the prizes and giveaways are stacking up [...]
Moodle in over 100 languages!
Helen Foster (@Moodlehelen) announced this recently and it's great news for the worlds most widely used (and translated) LMS. With the addition of a few new language packs Moodle now supports over 100 languages! If you're interested in creating a new language pack checkout the Translation documentation [...]
Blast off with the new Rocket Theme by @Moodleman for Moodle 2.1/2.2
5...4...3...2...1... The Rocket theme by Julian Ridden (@Moodleman) is a customizable theme to make your site less Moodley (and it succeeds). The theme has customizable logo, header images and category images and just simply looks great. It just may be the least Moodley looking theme of all Moodle themes! Check it out in some screen [...]
Free Course on the MOOCH: Mobile Learning and Teaching with Moodle 2
Here's a free course available via the MOOCH (hub.moodle.org), "Mobile Learning and Teaching with Moodle 2. The course was shared by Nadav Kavalerchik and is available to download or view. You can check out the MOOCH entry here or the course here. The course focuses on opportunities to learn about mobile computing in classrooms (with [...]
CLAMP Releases 2.2.1+LAE 2.0
Moodle 2.2 is one step closer to acceptance by the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) with the release of Moodle 2.2.1+LAE (Liberal Arts Edition) v2.0 beta 1. While not a stable release this is a milestone for Moodle's acceptance by the group considering their reservations aired in a Moodle 2 Status Report nearly 1 year ago (Feb [...]
Shameless Plug: Vote for me as People’s Choice for 2011
I've written a few posts at OpenSource.com/Education and this year I qualified to be in the running for the 2011 People's Choice Award, specifically for my contribution of an article/interview with Wayne Mackintosh about OER University. Moodle is one of many interests (though I often have trouble finding enough time to write about other [...]
The Ireland & UK Moodle Moot Registration is now open! #mootieuk12
Not only is registration for the Ireland/UK Moodle Moot, but they also have a limited number of Blogger passes available. Blogger passes, when awarded, provide the blogger free registration, parking, lunch and more...just for publicizing and covering the event. Go for free! If you're a blogger and could make the trip check [...]
CLAMP releases Moodle 1.9.16+LAE v1.6
The newest version of the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) flavor of Moodle (Liberal Arts Edition) has now been released. CLAMP is a collaboration of 26 liberal arts colleges across the US which produces a ready to use Moodle distribution with several key additions and improvements which we've highlighted previously. A few of [...]
241 OER Courses with Assessments in Moodle: How Saylor.org has created one of the largest Free and Open Course Initiatives on the web
Among free education advocates Saylor.org is leader offering absolutely free educational resources online. The Saylor goal/vision is to create "a zero-cost alternative to those who lack the resources to attend traditional brick-and-mortar institutions" and to provide those mainstream learning providers a free complement of resources online. [...]
