‘Events’ Archives
“Moodle Top 10″ Webinar coming up on Nov 2nd at 2pm EST
Join Campus Technology and Moodlerooms for a look at the why's and how's of using an open source enterprise learning management system in higher education. Two current Moodle/campus Directors of IT will be on hand to talk about their experiences. According to the landing page, Moodle has become a mainstream alternative to the legacy LMS of [...]
@Netspot’s innovation fund now accepting applications
A few months ago Netspot (Official Moodle Partner in Australia) announced the availability of $200,000 AUD to support elearning/Moodle in tertiary institutions in the country (check out the original Moodlenews post). As long as certain eligibility criteria are met, applicants are eligible for grants of 10,000 to 50,000 AUD. According to the [...]
Built in Moodle webinar/course with @iste
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is provides training, events and conferences for educators across the country. In early October they are providing a Moodle training session led by Kathleen McClaskey, President of Edtech-Associates (edtech-associates.com). The Moodle focused session is on October 5th, at 4pm EST. [...]
MoodlePosium 2011 Registration is now open
The MoodlePosium is an all-Moodle event at the Canberra Institute of Technology taking place on Thursday and Friday October 27th and 28th. The event is hosting several high-profile keynoting Moodlers, including Martin Dougiamas, Julian Ridden, Stephan Schmidt and Joyce Seitzinger. It sounds like an awesome event if you're in the area [...]
@eschoolnews presents a free webinar: “Best Practices for Hosting, Support and Use of Moodle in K-12 Schools” on October 5th
Eschoolnews (@eschoolnews), an online paper for the education industry is hosting a free webinar about Moodle on October 5th, 2011 at 2pm EST (the event is co-sponsored by Moodlerooms). The webinar will focus on hosting and support case scenarios and best practices. According to the event announcement, The Moodle learning management system [...]
@Packtpub launches sixth annual Open Source Awards
Ever think that Moodle deserves some recognition for being such a helpful, awesome open source project? This is your chance to vote for Moodle and hope that they'll win a share of the prize money from Packt Publishing! Voting begins 9/19. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The 2011 Open Source Awards was launched on the 1st week of August by Packt, [...]
Back to School: Find a Moot (and attend)
It’s Back to School 2011! We’ll be running back to school focused posts throughout the week of September 2nd, highlighting some good tips and suggestions for making the most out of your Moodle usage in 2011-2012. There are Moodle-related events around the country and world on a regular basis. Moodle meetups are generally called [...]
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 [...]
Introduction to Teaching with Moodle (4 week online course in October for as low as $55)
@ONEforTraining is a professional development arm of the California Community Colleges and offers low-cost teacher training via the web. This upcoming course has been offered before by @One and covers the basics of using Moodle in the classroom. For as low as $55 dollars for the 4 week session it's a great deal (non CA institutions are only [...]
