‘Opinion’ Archives
Opinion – #Facebook, Teachbook and Teacher Collaboration
You might have heard of Teachbook. It's the website getting sued by social networking behemoth, Facebook for infringing on the use of the "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 [...]
The 11+ Moodle Twitterers you should be following
Please note that this list is subjective, it's not meant to be comprehensive or complete and there are a good many Twitterers all contributing to Moodle news not on this list (just watch the post titles). With the entire Moodle Twitter community things would be much more boring around here. Follow the whole list at this [...]
How Moodle’s social networking features became a “virtual hangout” for students by @cytochromec
The following is a guest post by Colin Matheson (@cytochromec) who blogs at http://cytochromec.net/blog/ and is an Educational Technology Coach and Webmaster for Carmel Unified School District in California. We asked Colin to extrapolate on his earlier comment which discussed using Moodle's collaborative and social networking features to [...]
Happy Friday: my top 5 favorite Moodle sites
I've seen a lot of Moodles. I can't resist a new Moodle link, to see the theme, the apparent activity on the front page and the various courses that are available (even though they might be closed). Checking out a new Moodle always gives me new ideas for posts, and how to design my own Moodle sites or courses. Overtime I've visited a few [...]
Opinion – Can Moodle replace social networks in educational settings?
There are a few interesting articles recently, one from Tampa Bay's local news channel 10 and the other from the Mundelein Review in Illinois: the local school districts are banning or discouraging communication between students and teachers via social networks and instead are leaning on Moodle and school website portals to provide all modes of [...]
Opinion – Just Thinking… (what if Moodle bought #Blackboard?)
This is a guest post that originally was posted as a comment to MoodleNews' coverage of the Motley Fool article concerning Blackboard and it's acquisitions history/future (http://www.moodlenews.com/2010/blackboard-and-moodle-acquisition/). The following is cross-posted at http://pmasson.wordpress.com and is written by Patrick Masson. [...]
Opinion – #Blackboard’s Moodle acquisition hopes?
have to wonder if the company isn't getting ready for some grand, expensive gesture. Main rival Moodle would be too expensive and might raise eyebrows in the government's antitrust offices, but privately held Desire2Learn or Pearson division eCollege could be tasty tack-on targets. That's all grand but Blackboard's stock fell because of a [...]
Opinion – Where are the good open courses? #OER #OCW
The most popular post recently has been the notification that with user submitted sites we've "identified" over 930 courses created in Moodle that are available for download. They include content Spanish, German, Catalan and other languages, cover a host of subjects from primary to post-secondary school and are made available by a diverse mix of [...]
Opinion – Free Hosting and it’s place in the Moodle community
I've talked quite a bit about free hosting options for Moodle since starting Moodlenews and it's because I believe these sites to be an important and positive aspect of the Moodle community at large. I do respect and acknowledge the stance that Moodle HQ takes with these companies and that they represent a possible (probable?) Service or Trade [...]
Poll Results: Is Moodle Web 2.0?
We ran a quick, unscientific poll yesterday to try to figure what the consensus was on the Web 2.0-y-ness of Moodle. When asked "Is Moodle Web 2.0?" of those that responded: 51% yes 49% no Looks like it's statistically even. It's not necessarily important though (as was stated in the comments); making Moodle have the traits of Web 2.0 [...]
