Posts Tagged ‘google’
Using Google Apps in Moodle by @wastretchbeyond
Here's a great promo video/commercial boasting the integration of Google Apps to Moodle by Webanywhere (@wastretchbeyond). The video gives an example students working through a group assignment within Moodle using Google Docs, chat, Gmail and all of the baked in collaborative features that Gapps has to offer. Are you using Google [...]
Moodle user Authentication via Google (super simple registration) by @mouneyrac
Here's a cool resource by Jerome Mouneyrac (@mouneyrac) at Moodle, IT and me blog which provides the tools necessary for bringing Google Authentication to your Moodle site (just like Facebook Connect for Moodle). The Oauth2 Plugin for Moodle is Jerome's first authentication plugin for Moodle 2.0 and you can see it working at a sample site to [...]
“How learning is changing to a more social dynamic” by @wastretchbeyond
WebAnywhere recently published an interesting white paper on the changing landscape of online learning/elearning and how it's being impacted by the innovations large and small providing new ways to connect and learn online. From Google+ to Facebook for learning to Moodle and other free services the landscape is changing more towards [...]
Moodle Participates in the Google Summer of Code #GSOC for 5th year
The Google Summer of Code is an international event which teams mentor developers with aspiring student developers to work on various projects across the web. This is the 5th year of Moodle's involvement in the program according to the announcement . The opportunity gives interested students a chance to dive into Moodle code and potentially make [...]
Moodle using schools highlighted on the 6 o’clock news
The growth and celebrity of Moodle continues with some local news coverage by WSLS in Roanoke, Virgina. While the report starts with two incorrect facts (Moodle is not part of Google--but can be connected to some Google applications; Moodle has far more than 9 million users world wide--closer to 40 million ) it goes a long way into showing the [...]
Goomoodleikiog Prezi (the classic mash-up of Moodle and web2.0) @HeidiBeez @leighmurrell
Goomoodleikiog is a presentation (originally a Youtube) that shows the power of mashing-up Moodle, Google Apps, Wikis and Blogs in the classroom. The creators, Leigh Murrell and Heidi Beezley, have created a companion site and just presented at ISTE in Denver on their "invention". The Prezi is very well done (but the video is a classic (in [...]
Moodle catches a Wave #moodlewish
There's an interesting discussion at Moodle.org concerning the implementation of Google Wave into Moodle. Matt Bury, creator of the New Media Player plugin, envisions an implementation that would enable group Waves, Wave management, grade book entries, Wave initialization and much more. Read the whole description of what seems to be an [...]
Moodle.org bows out of Google Summer of Code #GSOC
Moodle.org community manager, Helen Foster announced today that Moodle will not be participating in the Google Summer of Code this year, this year we've decided not to submit an application for Moodle to be a mentoring organisation in order that we can focus on the Moodle 2.0 release. There's still lots to be done if we're to meet the release [...]
