‘News’ Archives
New Updates for Moodle’s Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate Live/Wimba) integrations
David Nagel, published at The Journal and Campus Technology reported yesterday that Blackboard had just updated the Moodle to Blackboard Collaborate integration (for both products: Elluminate Live and Wimba). This integration allows for scheduled and open synchronous course activities and online meeting places through both [...]
CLAMP Moodle 1.9.11+LAE1.2 has been released
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project has released its newest version of its Liberal Arts Edition (LAE) of Moodle addons as a package for anyone to download. This distribution of Moodle includes several non-core features which help to simplify grading and adds a host of useful tools. In this release you can look forward to two new [...]
Meet Steve the Moodle Doodle: Star of the Moodle Awareness Campaign by @ulethbridge
This is a special "Gone Moodle" which highlight's one University's transition to Moodle including fanfare and cartoons. Meet Steve, the Moodle Doodle who helped make it happen below. To raise awareness of their transition from Blackboard to Moodle 2.0 recently the University of Lethbridge (@ulethbridge) employed a cartoon character (dubbed [...]
#iMoot Recap: Statistics and future plans (find out how many attendees there were)
The iMoot Wrap-up "So long and thanks for all the fish" was a well attended end of conference event which touched on all of the positives and negatives experienced by iMooters this year. Julian Ridden (@moodleman) gave special thanks to his staff of tireless session moderators and programmers who really created one of the best virtual [...]
#iMoot Recap: Best Practices in Course Design @michelledmoore
Michelle Moore (@michelledmoore), Chief Evangelist for Moodle at Remote-Learner.net had one of the best presentations that I saw at the iMoot last week. Her presentation focused on the best practices of Moodle course design and usage including the list of tips and tricks you'll see below. If you ever get a chance to attend one of her [...]
#imoot recap: Course Creator Challenge Entries
One of the coolest things about the iMoot this year was that there was an interactive synchronous challenge given to all interested iMoot attendees. The Course Creator Challenge was for attendees only, but was nearly like a poster session as you might see at a regular face-to-face educational technology conference. Attendees were able to [...]
The Midwest Moodle Moot is Open for Registration #mootusin11
The Midwest Moodle Moot in Goshen is now open for registration and the keynote speaker for the event has been announced. The Midwest Moot takes place at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana--in close proximity to Amish country. Registration for the event is only $135 until June 17th (thereafter the early bird price will no longer apply and be [...]
#iMoot recap: Miles Berry’s “Open Source beyond the Software” @mberry
This week I'll be further digesting the sessions I attended at the 2nd annual iMoot and posting my thoughts here. One of my favorite sessions was by Miles Berry (@mberry) of Roehampton University. Miles' presentation explored the non-computing applications of open source as they have manifested in curriculum building (collaborative), open [...]
Moodle Developer Meeting: 9am EST May 24th
If you're a Moodle developer interested on the newest project and initiatives coming down the pike, the next Moodle Developer Meeting is May 24th at 9am EST (13:00 UTC: find your timezone). This meeting will focus on three main initiatives at Moodle HQ for developers: Moodle 2.1 release Moodle Docs update Plugins (M&P [...]
A few post-iMoot thoughts
Last weekend I was one of 100s of participants of the 2nd annual iMoot (online Moodle conference) event which was hosted and organized by Pukunui Technologies. Most notably the behind the scenes was managed by a tireless Julian Ridden (@Moodleman) and his staff of session moderators and helpers who got each presentation off without (mostly) a [...]
