‘This just in!’ Archives
Tomorrow (8/31) Free Moodle for Teachers Orientation/Workshop via @WizIQ
Tomorrow at 4pm EST Nellie Deutsch is hosting a Moodle for Teachers session via WizIQ for new Moodlers or those interested in honing their current skills. According to the event page, M4T-O workshop is intended to provide people who have never used Moodle with the knowledge and skills to navigate a Moodle course and access resources and [...]
Back to School 2011!
Last year I ran a series of "Back to school" related posts and I'm going to do my best to continue the tradition with "Back to School 2011". This link will bring all of the best back to school posts from 2011 all under one page for easy viewing and navigating http://www.moodlenews.com/tag/back-to-school-2011/. What to look forward to this [...]
Great New Theme for 2.0: Aardvark Postit by Mary Evans
Here's a cool new theme based on the Aarvark 2.1 theme released earlier this summer by Shaun Daubney. The slight variation is called "Postit" and was developed and released by Mary Evans, moderator of the Moodle Themes forum on Moodle.org. According to Mary, This is a re-make of the original Aardvark 2.1 theme which Shaun created, and I have [...]
ELIS 1.9.2 Released!
ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence Suite), the wrapper that includes and is based upon Moodle has been upgraded several times this year (rapidly over the last three months) and the newest version, 1.9.2 based on Moodle 1.9.12 is now available for Remote-Learner customers. ELIS made headlines earlier this year when it was open sourced by [...]
FreeEmbedChat – you’ve never seen a free PHP chat like this for your Moodle site before!
Julie slaps Frankie with a large trout. Remember that line "...slaps... with a large trout"? The early 1990s were the good old days of the Internet age where text ruled the roost. Internet connections were mainly dial-up lines. Chat clients like mIRC and ICQ were all the rage. I should know. I once wasted the equivalent of one whole week's [...]
Moodle Flavours–a site admin setting replication tool–now available in the Plugin Repository
Moodle Flavours, which was one of the Google Summer of Code projects for 2011 by David Monllaó has just been released. This is a pretty cool tool for managing multiple Moodle sites and sharing the settings between them through an import/export process. According to the documentation page, With this plugin Moodle Administrators will be able [...]
Today: Past, Present and Future: The Evolution of Enterprise Moodle in Higher Education
Campus Technology is sponsoring a special webinar today, "Past, Present and Future: The Evolution of Enterprise Moodle in Higher Education". It's sponsored in part by Dell and Moodlerooms. The presentation features Clark Shah-Nelson (@clarkshahnelson), coordinator of online education at SUNY Delhi and Blake Haggerty (@bthaggerty), assistant [...]
“How learning is changing to a more social dynamic” by @wastretchbeyond
WebAnywhere recently published an interesting white paper on the changing landscape of online learning/elearning and how it's being impacted by the innovations large and small providing new ways to connect and learn online. From Google+ to Facebook for learning to Moodle and other free services the landscape is changing more towards [...]
#MMVC11 Starts today! Tune in for Moodle sessions all day today through Sunday
The MoodleMoot Virtual Conference organized by the Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (http://www.integrating-technology.org/) is starting today and runs through Sunday with at least 5 sessions a day. Sessions cover anything from running international graduate programs via Moodle to Moodle migration considerations and course [...]
Gone Moodle: Lehigh University and Bloomsbury Colleges
As usual here are some institutions that have "gone Moodle" lately, either by adoption, switching hosting or just making headlines with their Moodliness. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA : To augment its us of Moodle Lehigh is adopting Mahara as their school's eportfolio system as well, "We found that we had a real gap on our [...]
