‘News’ Archives
Enter to Win a Ticket to the 2011 iMoot! #imoot
Sponsored in part by Wiris.com, here's your chance to win registration to the 2011 iMoot. Simply sign up between now and Thursday morning (4/28/2011 by 11am EST) and you'll be entered to win free registration courtesy of Moodlenews. Please signup once and only once, the winner will be chosen at random and announced Thursday. Registration [...]
Win a pass to iMoot sponsored by @wirismath #imoot
My sponsors over at Wiris have been kind enough to keep the Moodlenews.com train chugging along (covering our hosting costs, the Moodle Mug budget, our contributions to Moodle.org and some take-away when required...blogging gives me an appetite). Enter to Win here! They were also kind enough to let us revise the advertising space on the site to [...]
iMoot Speaker Spotlight: @Josephthibault (that’s me!)
iMoot 2011 is just a week away and it's shaping up to be a really great event. I am extremely excited (and nervous) as this year I will be giving 2 sessions. Last year I presented my experiences using a completely standard Moodle installation and Paypal for a small-scale training and certification program (the business is still going [...]
Gone Moodle: Elon University, University of Portsmouth and Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
As usual, here are a few educational organizations and institutions who've either made the switch to Moodle or are considering it: Elon University, Elon, NC, USA : Elon students and faculty are considering a move to Moodle from Blackboard over the summer of 2012 once the current LMS contract has expired. The move is driving by cost savings [...]
The 2011 iMoot Schedule has been released
Check out all the sessions and plan your iMoot viewing down to the minute with the easy to read program/schedule at http://2011.imoot.org. All of the confirmed sessions are listed with easy to read time zone comparisons. Use this roadmap to plan your best possible 2011 iMoot. Have you registered yet?
Interested in what’s happening at #MootUK11? Follow @KristianStill
Kristian Still (@KristianStill) is on the ground and reporting from the UK Moot this year and has five recaps of the sessions he's attended already posted at his blog: http://www.kristianstill.co.uk/. For realtime updates from other participants you should watch the #MootUK11 Twitter [...]
Midwest Moot 2011 Dates Announced!
The 3rd Annual Midwest Moodle Moot dates have been announced. For the past 2 years the Midwest Moot has been help in Goshen, Indiana at Goshen College (www.Goshen.edu). This year the event will take place July 20-22. Visit the site for more information and updates, the call for presenters/proposals is already [...]
Moodle Monday: Tagging by @timdalton
After looking at the user profile in a previous week this post moves on to look at profile tags. When editing their profile a user can add tags of their interests. Simply type them in, if it already exists you get added to that tag, if not Moodle creates a new tag for you. When viewing a user profile you can see what interests they have [...]
iMoot Speaker Spotlight: Lindy Klein and “Crafting Adaptive Courses” #imoot
Here's a sneak peek at one of the presentations for the upcoming iMoot which starts next week. Lindy Klein is a "social media and open learning consultant" and is presenting "Learning Journeys - Crafting Adaptive Courses". According to the iMoot site, Lindy's presentation will focus on Moodle 2.0's new features such as conditional activities [...]
Gone Moodle: Michigan State, Keuka College and University of Maryland
Here are a few articles where Moodle made the news as either a LMS being considered, piloted or used in higher ed recently: Michigan State University, Michigan, USA : MSU is has piloted Moodle in several courses in consideration of moving from its current LMS, Angel. The flagship university has piloted Moodle 2.0 (you can see the site [...]
