‘News’ Archives
Meet Moonbeam the Moose and get ready for the Ohio Moot #MootOHUS11
The Ohio Moodle Moot will take place this August 11th, 2011 in Mansfield, OH. The event will be only $75 to attend. For more information visit http://www.ohiomoot.org. The Moot's mascot was recently unveiled at Moodle.org in the forum, meet Moonbeam the Moose: According to the site, Moodle is fast becoming the educator's choice for [...]
A new Country Moodle Song…
We all heard (and loved) the techno-pop Moodle song by Dawn of Thunder. Well now there's a new country Moodle song on the interwebs for you to enjoy (no matter your musical taste it sounds like Moodle-pop music is hitting all genres). This song is by Kent Brooks (@kentbrooks) and was shared by Tim Hunt on Moodle.org. It chronicles the switch [...]
A gem of a tool for English teachers: Marginalia forum web annotation tool for Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.0
Marginalia Add web annotation to your Moodle forums! This is a great pedagogical tool, from 2008, for those of you teaching English. You can use the Marginalia Moodle plugin to type corrections to your students' forum posts. Here's a Youtube video showing you the plugin in action. No audio, so don't bother turning on the volume knob on [...]
The MoodleMoot Oklahoma starts today! #MootOK11
If you're keen to follow Twitter (#MootOK11) or to make a drive to Oklahoma City today you can catch the MoodleMoot Oklahoma which goes until tomorrow the 9th of June. Hosted by the Metro Technology Center in Oklahoma City the even spans three days (pre conference was yesterday 6/7) and includes a host of presentations and sessions by Mary [...]
Take a peek at Joule’s Social layer by Western Nevada College
Starting from myMoodle, students at Western Nevada College who want to connect socially now have a new online tool part of Joule 2 from Moodlerooms: Joule Social. Looks like a Facebook activity and Twitter post stream mashup with easy access to courses, blogs, instant chat and other important resources and documents. The video was created by [...]
Moodle Monday: Big Blue Button by @timdalton
Following on from the post on Moodlenews announcing the activity module for Big Blue Button we have had it installed and in testing for a little while now. Big Blue Button is a fantastic piece of open source software for delivering remote classroom/training type sessions. Having spent a fair amount of time using GoToMeeting I can say with some [...]
Ross MacKenzie: Moving the Open University to Moodle 2.0
MootUK11's video archive from this year is a great collection of resources and videos that highlight some of the most cutting edge Moodle use/practices from around the UK (and world). Today I got to watch Ross MacKenzie's presentation in which he highlights Open University's move to Moodle 2.0. Ross highlights a lot of great information about [...]
Recording Webcam Video as feedback in the Moodle Assignment activity
Ever wanted to give a video feedback on a student's Moodle assignment? Well now you can do that directly inside Moodle itself. I used Kevin Brake's excellent Video Recorder to embed a video recording inside a Moodle 1.9 Assignment grade feedback. Here's a Youtube video of the process and below you'll find a link to my blog with a lengthier [...]
1000th post at Moodlenews (thanks for reading)
This is actually the 1006th post at Moodlenews and I wanted to quickly thank all the readers for sticking with us and providing all of the great feedback, comments and questions. Keep them coming and I'll try to reciprocate. 1000 posts is a lot but I have to admit the last 18 months at Moodlenews have flown by and I've been blessed to be able [...]
Folderview course format will not be in 2.1 release
Unfortunately we got a quick update on the status of Folderview, the new course format from Moodlerooms and it will most likely not be ready for inclusion in the 2.1 release coming at the end of the month. Folderview is a contribution from some folks with a really strong interest in improving and maintaining Moodle, so I was reviewing it in an [...]
