Posts Tagged ‘mary cooch’
@Moodlefairy shows off the Subpage module: another way to prevent Scroll of Death
The Sub-page module gives Moodle course design additional flexibility in creating nested activities and organizing resources on their own page. If you've ever used Blackboard for course creation you'll be very familiar with the concept. Sub-page is developed/maintained by the Open University for Moodle 2.1+ but has not been officially [...]
On the 9th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…
Tutorials for watching! 8 Site for Storytell-ing 7 mobile Moodl-ing 6 Course-for-matting 5 a course about Jiiing 4 pretty themes 3 plugins 2 Cheery images and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! If it's one thing the Moodle community is good at it's creating video tutorials and screencasts to highlight Moodle's [...]
How to use the Meta Course function in Moodle 2.x
Meta courses are great ways to automatically give students the resources they need on a Moodle site without having to enroll them into two areas. On several projects I've used Meta courses to speed up access to students and to create a 1 stop shop for supporting students that was easily update-able and centrally managed. In Moodle 1.9 Meta [...]
Cloning activities in Moodle 2.0 by @Moodlefairy
Here's a great short video that highlights one of the newest features in Moodle 2 (to be released with Moodle 2.1 this week). Enjoy the video by Mary Cooch and read more about the 2.1 release here: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.1_release_notes Direct video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV4_Z-hNMoc
Regular Registration for the Australia Moot closes 6/17 #MootAU11
Just a quick reminder for anyone headed down under for the 2011 Australia Moot: regular registrations end on June 17th (there after the late registration price will be enforced). This year's Moot features some high-profile speakers (including Martin Dougiamas and Mary Cooch) in addition to a few Australian academics. The opening speaker is Ian [...]
#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 [...]
Using Moodle in foreign language courses – a video by @moodlefairy
Here's a video from Mary Cooch (@Moodlefairy; produced in 2008) which still applies today. Learn how you might structure a foreign language course in Moodle using the directory, images, Glossary/Database, embedding video and mp3s. Adding mp3s seems like a very easy and useful way to embed foreign language audio into a course for students to [...]
It’s Moodle March for @PacktPub (20% off all Moodle books!)
Packt Publishing is having a huge discount this Month (March) on all Moodle books. You can get them all at 20% off or 4 books for just $60! It's quite a deal if you're in the market for some Moodle texts. From their press release, Packt has this week announced a series of discounts and promotions to herald the forthcoming publication of [...]
#MootUK11 Presentation Lineup Announced!
The folks over at MoodleMoot UK 2011 have announced their accepted presentation lineup for the upcoming event and there are some really great presenters and presentation titles/themes included¹: Alex Buechner, Synergy Learning: Course, Chat and Match – Creating a Moodle Course as a Game Anthony Forth, The Open University: Mobile, Moodle [...]
