Posts Tagged ‘imoot’
iMoot 2012 gets a date! (April 21-24)
This is a tentative date (yet to be confirmed by the official iMoot site) but it was posted recently to the Moodle announcements by Helen Foster (@Moodlehelen). Looks like the iMoot will be held online from the 21st through 24th of April 2012. Watch this site for more information: http://2012.imoot.org/ And if you're interested in many more [...]
#imoot2012 is coming!
No event information is yet published, but the website has a new landing page: http://2012.imoot.org/ I'm getting excited.
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 [...]
Back to School: Find a Moot (and attend)
It’s Back to School 2011! We’ll be running back to school focused posts throughout the week of September 2nd, highlighting some good tips and suggestions for making the most out of your Moodle usage in 2011-2012. There are Moodle-related events around the country and world on a regular basis. Moodle meetups are generally called [...]
Check out the #imoot course creation challenge courses on the Mooch!
The courses from the Course Creation Challenge held during the iMoot this past spring are now available on the Mooch to check out. No need to have attended iMoot 2011, you can now enter the courses and even download a copy to use on your own. From the winner by Alja Isakovic to my personal favorite by Kristian Still, explore each [...]
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: Best Practices in Course Design @michelledmoore
Michelle Moore (@michelledmoore), Chief Evangelist for Moodle at Remote-Learner.net had one of the best presentations that I saw at the iMoot last week. Her presentation focused on the best practices of Moodle course design and usage including the list of tips and tricks you'll see below. If you ever get a chance to attend one of her [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
Slides from my #iMoot “Many Faces of Moodle” presentation
Here are two resources from my presentation from this year's iMoot: The first is a comparison chart for course formats (each of the 8 included in my presentation). I hope to add additional formats to the chart in the near future and as new formats are introduced: http://www.moodlenews.com/collections/course-formats/ Next, if you're [...]
