‘This just in!’ Archives
Moodle Moot Hamburg, Germany: September 8th
Moodle Moot Hamburg was just announced on http://moodlemoot.moodle.de. Though a reportedly smaller Moot, the event is scheduled for September 8th, 2010 at Helmut Schmidt University and is sponsored by Moodle partner, eLeDia. For more information visit the German Moot site: http://moodlemoot.moodle.de/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=523 UPDATE [...]
Notes from Martin’s Keynote #mootusin10 from @theohiobloke
Here are some quick notes taken by John Mansel-Pleydell (@theohiobloke) while he attended the keynote presenation by Martin Dougiamas at the Midwest Moot this morning. Stay up to date with Goshen at #mootusin10. Moodle MOOT keynote #mootusin10 is the twitter hash tag. People use Moodle in ways he did not plan. 50k registered and verified [...]
Martin Dougiamas Live from the Midwest Moot (9am EST Today) #mootusin10
Today, Tuesday the 27th of July, Wimba is sponsoring a live webcast of Martin Dougiamas' keynote address, "Moodle 2.0", which kicks off the 2010 Midwest Moodle Moot in Goshen. Information: http://www.goshen.edu/moodle/wimbawebcast.html. Visit the link prior to the session to run Wimba's setup wizard. If anyone at the Midwest Moot [...]
NEWS FLASH: Wimba will Stream from the Midwest Moot Keynote from Goshen (7/27)
Thanks to Floyd Saner, Midwest Moodle Moot in Goshen coordinator for alerting us of this late breaking news. On Tuesday the 27th of July (next Tuesday), synchronous educational service provider, Wimba, will host a live webcast of Martin Dougiamas' keynote address, Moodle 2.0, at the 2010 Midwest Moodle Moot. Date/time: Tuesday, July 27, 9:00a [...]
NEWS FLASH: Final Release of 2.0 pushed to September
Final Release date: September, 2010 (if testing goes well) Previously the push to release Moodle 2.0 was focused on readying the code for use by schools starting this September, unfortunately, with at least one more QA testing cycle in store for Moodle 2.0 the release has been pushed back to September, 2010 (at the earliest). For more [...]
Winner of the New School Learning Theme 2.0 contest announced
Last Friday the winner of the Moodle 2.0 theme design competition was announced, the winner out of 12 great submissions is Caroline Kennedy who created the theme "Splash". For more information: http://newschoollearning.com/news/theme_contest_winner/. Congratulations to Caroline who won a 16GB iPad. And a hearty thank you to New School [...]
What the #Blackboard Acquisition means for Moodle
Wimba and Elluminate, both synchronous learning tools, have been purchased by the leading proprietary learning management company, Blackboard and have been re-branded already as Blackboard Collaborate. The news comes as a surprise to many (considering the similar market of both companies). Implications for Moodle users are not yet known, but [...]
Moodle 2.0 Preview Release 4 and Introducing the “MOOCH” (course hub)
Moodle 2 PR4 is now out (http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_2.0_Preview_4_release_notes) which is fabulous news for the community (development is a solid 50% through the proposed 8 preview releases and on track for 7/20 release (only three weeks away!). Fixes/improvements/development on PR4 includes New enrollments plugin [...]
FLASH – Moodle2Mobile Project: a new collaboration with familiar faces @ckiyan
This just hit the wire at Moodle.org (http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152927): The members of the Moodbile and Moodle4iPhone have agreed to collaborate and build the new project "moodle2mobile" (M2M) The aim of this project is to create a open source add on for Moodle that allows to access the services of Moodle from Mobile devices [...]
1.9.9 Officially Released
Details at: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_1.9.9_release_notes Download it by visiting http://download.moodle.org/
