‘Resources’ Archives
Moodle Slideshow marries a Moodle plugin to an iOS App for on-the-go Slideshow creation
Here's a pretty cool mobile integration for Moodle: Install the Slideshow app by Netcourse.org: http://moodlemodules.netcourse.org/ Next download the handy Moodle Slideshow app for iOS and then login (as a student or teacher). Create slideshows from camera images and recorded audio straight from your iPhone. Check out the video to [...]
Learn about Moodle 2 and Joule 2 with 17 videos from @Moodlerooms
As you may know, Joule is Moodle+ as a hosted service from Moodle Partner, Moodlerooms. Joule has some cool functionality like synchronous (built-in, optional webinars), easy theme customization, some easy design tools and shortcuts and loads more. If you're interested in getting a sense of how Moodle 2 vs Joule 2 shakes out these [...]
Convert Blackboard Learn courses to Moodle with Reteach.org
This is a new tool shared with us in the comments recently: it's a piece of code that you can use to automatically convert course exports from Blackboard Learn to Moodle 1.9 backup files. We haven't had a chance to try it yet but the original contributor did mention that it worked great: http://reteach.org. Reteach was created by Adam [...]
Top 30 reasons to move to Moodle 2 by @ghenrick
Gavin Henrick has pulled together 3 (three) top 10 lists for why to move from Moodle 1.9 to 2.0. The three presentations are available at his blog and the each already has a voice over presentation video available on Youtube. Each presentation highlights another set of new/changed Moodle features and discusses (quickly) how they impact the [...]
Doc of the day: Key Terms
This is a great resource to share with teachers or students if ever you want to get everyone on the same page with Moodle-terminology. From Blocks to Resources to Activities, each is discussed here and helpfully explained in plain terms. For more great guides like this and more visit http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Moodle_key_terms
See the Official Moodle Mobile app (My Moodle) in action with this video by @mylearningspace
Here's a ~10 minute video that highlights all the cool stuff you can do with the official Mobile Moodle app, My Moodle which was released a short while ago. The video was created/shared by MyLearningSpace (@mylearningspace) of Australia. The video highlights the login process, navigating the profile/courses and also using the built-in [...]
joule Synchronous is Adobe Connect
Moodlerooms recently launched a new feature for its joule customers, joule Synchronous. What is joule Synchronous? Simply put it's joule's integration with Adobe Connect, one of the leading premium synchronous education tools for Moodle and other LMSs. I had the pleasure of working on/with Adobe Connect during the 2011 iMoot and it's a [...]
October 26th: The Moodle Lesson, Explained (Free Webinar by @lmikowychok)
Next week on October 26th at 3:30 PM EST Laura Mikowychok of the Chester County Intermediate Unit (CCIU) in eastern Pennsylvania will be hosting a free webinar to discuss and explain the Moodle Lesson activity. For many, the Moodle Lesson has always been a daunting, complicated activity, what with that record-length settings page, and all of [...]
Huge Professional Development Opportunities in Moodle on the CEET ning #edtechbc
The Community of Expertise in Educational Technology (CEET) social network site is a wealth of information for teachers and Moodlers worldwide. Members share tons of great information, engage in discussions and even do some live events each month. A list of the upcoming "Moodle Meets", which are short (5 day) professional development jaunts [...]
Free Course by @SukhwantLota: Pushing Moodle content to Twitter
Here's a slick little course that highlights how you can push RSS information from your Moodle course (forum postings) to a Twitter account. The course was created/shared by Sukhwant Lota (@SukhwantLota) at Leeds City College and highlights the few steps to making it happen. It's a pretty cool little tool if you're interested in letting [...]
