‘News’ Archives
#Moodle4iPhone running on HTC G1 #android and Nokia n-97 #symbian
Carlos Kiyan shot us a quick email to let us know that the Moodle4iPhone web app has been at least briefly tested by the team on both Android 1.5/cupcake (on the Google/HTC G1) and the Nokia N97 Symbian. On the Symbian (More pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/carlos.kiyan/Moodle4iPhoneNokiaN97Symbian#): Here's a quick video of the app [...]
MoodleMayhem’s 1st Podcast released (@mguhlin)
Recently the first podcast over at Moodle Mayhem (http://bit.ly/moodlemayhem) was released (it runs about 19 minutes). This first session features Moodle Mayhem mastermind, Miguel Guhlin being interviewed by Diana Benner at the Texas Distance Learning Association's 2010 conference. Miguel highlights his hopes for the collaborative community [...]
@ULCC migrates 15,000 students onto Moodle
For immediate release: Exeter University moves from WebCT to ULCC’s Hosted Moodle Service University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) has won a tender to provide and support a hosted Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), using the Open Source Moodle software for the University of Exeter. ULCC has already begun work to ensure a smooth [...]
Using Moodle for Student Elections
There's a neat article published over at the Almagest (the Louisiana State University at Shreveport student paper) which gives a precursor to their upcoming student government elections. As a Moodle using school, all students already have accounts on their Learning Management System, which has opened the doors for a unique possibility [...]
What is MoodleTouch for the #iPhone?
I had a chance to get the low-down from Ali Özgür (http://www.pragmasql.com) about his new MoodleTouch app which will be fully released in the next two weeks. The app is the first native app for the iPhone, meaning that anyone can download the app (which will be a paid app) and use it to access ANY (yes, ANY) existing Moodle installation as [...]
Moodle Growth Worldwide (image)
Just a cool little gif that shows Moodle growth (officially reported only) since 2003: Click here for the full screen: http://moodle.org/sites/moodle-growth.gif; thanks to ikawhero for posting it.
mTouch (MoodleTouch) for #iPhone: Another Mobile App
"MTouch is the first and only native iPhone application for Moodle" according to their website: http://moodletouch.com. This adds a little more competition to the quickly developing field of Mobile Moodle apps and plug-ins. Information is forthcoming as soon as we can get it. In the meantime checkout MoodleTouch.com and let us know what [...]
@lasic @johart Offer a FREE webinar: “Teaching With Moodle” 3/25 at 7pm EST
Tomaz Lasic sent out a notification on 3/24 with information about a free webinar he's co-hosting with Jo Hart (http://johart1.edublogs.org). Additional information is posted to Jo's blog: http://johart1.edublogs.org/2010/03/20/serendipity-webinar-convert-resources-for-e-learning/. From that post: Our next Webinar is an Edublogs “Tools and [...]
Offline Moodle: an answer to limited web access?
There's a new post over at the iLite blog: http://ilite.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/moodle-off-line-application/. It poses the question: what would offline Moodle access look like and is it possible? From the post: To my mind the offline client should be a stand-alone application that is installed on the Users PC. The application should permit [...]
Useful blogs and sites compiled by @lasic
Tomaz Lasic just released a new course for Moodlers at Moodle.org called "Teaching and Learning: for Educators by Educators", but more on that later. It's quite literally full of great resources, not the least of which is a collection of bloggers, social networks and other links where you can find oodles of more information about Moodles (nice [...]
