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

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

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.

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.

Angel Learning Management System was acquired by Blackboard in May 2009 for approximately 95 million USD [link].

http://www.conversionthingy.net

ConversionThingy 2 is a program that reads ANGEL 7.3 and 7.4 course archives and converts their course content into native objects in Moodle 1.98 backup files. The conversion brings in as much as it can reasonably translate from the one LMS to the other: most of the items ordinarily located under the ANGEL Lessons tab get shifted, including folders, pages, url links, files, discussion forums, dropboxes, assessments, and WIKIs. Also included in the conversion are gradebook categories and assignments (along with their content linkages and weights), grade scales (mapping number/letter grades), chat rooms, team ids (and descriptions), and question banks…

Converted materials turn up…as native Moodle objects that can be further manipulated, configured, and edited as though they had been created in Moodle [link]

According to Dr. Peter Friesen who submitted the resource,

After countless cups of coffee and many many late nights, I’m pleased to let you know that “ConversionThingy 2″ – a tool for migrating ANGEL 7.3 and 7.4 files to Moodle – is now available. Documentation, license info, and the program itself are all to be found at http://www.conversionthingy.net.

In the world of course conversion this seems to be a great step in providing easy transition from one LMS to another.  If you’re a current Angel user looking to migrate, give it a test and let us know how it fares.

http://www.moodlenews.com/feasibility-study/

The survey will be turned off at the end of the day today and analysis will start shortly thereafter.

Thanks to all of our participants!

Titles include:

• Art history
• Moodling: Using Online Courseware for Ubiquitous Learning
• Sloodle Demo course
• Creative Writing Online
• Writing a Children’s Book
• Knowledge of College
• Elementary School Orchestra
• and More!

Download them all to restore to your Moodle at http://courses.moodleshare.com.

James Chan, a developer at Mass Media alerted us recently that mBook 1.1 has been released into the app store [http://mbooks.hk], which doubles as a support and development site].  mBook provides a fully immersive Moodle experience for the iPad [iTunes store link].  According to the store page, the app provides a fresh approach to displaying Moodle on an iPad and supports the most Moodle activities and resources compared to any app for iOS in the iTunes app store.

mBook supports multiple languages (currently 5), has been tested with all of the standard Moodle activities (omitting flash based resources such as found in some SCORM packages presumably) and certainly looks promising.  From the Apple landing page:

mBook supports at Course level course listing, course teachers and course costs, enrollment key to courses, topic descriptions, ”visible” sections and modules viewed by student users, ”invisible” sections and resources viewed by teachers, editing course and personal events in calendar, Topic and Weekly course formats.

Blocks features: ”Calendar” and “Upcoming events”,  ”Section” block, ”Inbox” block is a new block to collect all News from the user’s enrolled courses, ”Activities” block at course level.

Users will find it convenient to access the above resources from this “Activities” tab on the course tab bar.

mBook has our own interface for most Moodle resources, which include: internal web pages, internal text pages, labels, directory display, playing back of MP3 (8 to 320 Kbps) audio files, playig back of .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats videos, external web pages, and all forums and site news.

mBook also opens documents in the following formats:
- .jpg, .png, .gif (images);
- .doc (Microsoft Word);
- .htm and .html (web pages);
- .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat);
- .ppt (Microsoft PowerPoint);
- .xls (Microsoft Excel).

mBook does require a server side installation of some files, for more information visit http://mbooks.hk for all details or  to download the web service Moodle files.

Check out the screenshots for a better look:

While you won’t be able to login or use the site, you can check out the app at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ilearn-for-csumb/id386364172?mt=8#.  An archive of CSUMB’s Moodle is available at http://archive.ilearn.csumb.edu/

Home page view:

Course view: