Posts Tagged ‘gavin henrick’
MoodleMoot returns to Ireland: The Ireland/UK MoodleMoot April 2-4, 2012 in Dublin #mootieuk12
After a several year hiatus the Ireland/UK Moodlemoot returns and will be held in Dublin on April 2-4, 2012. The call for presentations is open; deadline to submit is Feb 3rd, 2012. The Moot is focusing several strands for Moodlers including Implementing & Developing Moodle, Teaching & Learning with Moodle, Academic takeup of [...]
2011 Edublog Awards voting is open, Vote here for Moodle and your fave bloggers
Voting for the 2011 Edublog Awards is now open. You can vote for your favorite Moodle blogger (Moodlenews nominated Gavin Henrick, Some Random Thoughts). You can also vote for Moodle as the best "free web tool". Tons of other nominees are available in an array of categories. If you're looking for some new blogs and sites to follow for [...]
Nominations open for the 2011 Edublogs Awards #eddies11: I nominate @ghenrick
Nominations are open for the 2011 Edublogs and I'd like to nominate Gavin Henrick's "Some Random Thoughts" blog as best "Best ed tech / resource sharing blog" (formerly the "resource sharing" category). Gavin's posted some wonderfully instructive and informative posts about Moodle lately and his blog is a great resource for finding a 1st level [...]
Read this now: @Ghenrick’s Moodle 2 Theme White Paper
Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick) has a great white paper out about themes in Moodle 2.0. He highlights and points out all of the things you should consider when thinking of upgrading from 1.9 or simply making the jump to the new Moodle platform. As you may know, themes are a lot different in Moodle 2, providing dockable navigation and full [...]
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 [...]
Moodle Tunes Round up (your mixtape for Moodling)
If you haven't noticed Moodle is making a push into songs and lyrics lately. There are at least 4 Moodle-tribute songs available in lyric or music video form. Check them all out and sing along. Or at least hum that tune while creating courses, activities or server administrating. (That's what I'll be doing all day. Robbie Williams is [...]
Congratulations to @iAlja “Best in Show” at the #imoot Course Creation Challenge
Via Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick) and the iMoot site: Best in Show “I can change the world” – Alja Isakovic Runners up “Surviving the Great iMoot Climate Change” – Drew Mortensen “Global Warming and Climate Change” – Sigi Jakob-Kühn The public favourite matched our own: iMoot Peoples Choice “I can change the world” [...]
#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 Speaker Spotlight: The Course Creation CHALLENGE Panel
For Participants/Attendees only (but there's still time to sign up to win free registration, do it now!) on Saturday during the iMoot there is a panel which will "wrestle with the question 'What makes a great Moodle course?'" But this isn't a regular discussion, this is the midway point of a competition to create the best possible Moodle course [...]
Moodle 2.0 Video Playlist by @ghenrick
Here's great resource pulled together and shared by Gavin Henrick (@ghenrick) who's also been systematically documenting and reviewing the modules and features of Moodle 2.0 at his blog: http://moodle.drupalgardens.com/. A great resource that's highlighting some of the new and improved features of Moodle (and additional newly released modules [...]
