‘Opinion’ Archives
Opinion: Combining “Home Page” and “Front Page Settings” page
When setting up a new Moodle site one of my first considerations is if I'm going to employ the myMoodle page to simplify navigation for all users. What I've found though is that there are several screens and menus required in order to setup myMoodle and the landing page for non-logged in users (I know I'm simplifying the overall configuration [...]
Public Service Annoucement: Stop the Scroll of Death!
A quick public service announcement on a very important subject. Prevent the scroll of death and stop symptoms like: inefficient screen navigation scroll of death finger wheel cramping next step confusion resource hide-and-seek syndrome and more. Call now (Jenny is standing by). Yet another great Moodle contribution from [...]
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 [...]
Using Feedback as the lesson by @kristianstill
This post was written/contributed by Kristian Still and is cross-posted at his blog. You can read more of his educational thoughts and find helpful links for teaching at his blog: http://www.kristianstill.co.uk/wordpress. Before I get to the ‘Using Feedback as the Lesson’ post, there are a couple of pedagogical reflections / questions I [...]
Quick thank you to @red20twenty (Moodle Theme Developer Extraordinaire)
I manage a professional certification site (Medinails.com) for nail technicians across the US and needed a quick theme project to make our Wordpress main informational site look more like the Moodle site (where the courses and assessments are delivered. Mike Walters (@red20twenty | http://www.redtwenty.net/) had been tweeting some of his past [...]
Gone Moodle 2.0: Latrobe University
In light of the recent CLAMP report suggesting that the CLAMP member institutions stick with 1.9 for the 2012 Academic year it's important to note that there are a few universities making the leap to Moodle 2.0 around the world. One notable organization is the University of La Trobe in Victoria, Australia whose transition to Moodle 2.0 is [...]
#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: 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 [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
