Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Find Moodle on #Facebook
There's a Moodle Facebook page with some nice discussions going on, "like" it at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Moodle/41808104107. A few great fan photos as well, like this one:
Opinion – What if Moodle were more like Facebook? @zaidlearn
Zaid Ali Alsagoff (@Zaidlearn) wrote a very provocative post recently about what he's hoping Moodle can become (http://goo.gl/9XEZ). The post was spurred by a Twitter-based conversation about #Moodlewish; an open solicitation for new Moodle features, functions and changes. Zaid goes on to discuss the ability and process of posting links to [...]
Login to #iMoot2010 with #Facebook Connect
Julien Ridden, one of the organizers of the upcoming iMoot announced today that the site has integrated the Facebook Connect authentication plug-in recently posted to Moodle.org and mentioned on MoodleMonthly. iMoot is the first ever web-based Moodle Moot. It starts February 4th and runs through the 7th. The cost is only 41 USD to attend [...]
Moodle Bar
Lewis Carr, Moodle developer has contributed a great many projects to Moodle.org (including fixing many bugs and a developing a new My Moodle page). Lewis's blog is full of useful developer notes and downloads that could be implemented to Moodle sites and his list of development projects for 2010 includes an iPhone theme and the Moodle [...]
