Posts Tagged ‘online’
How to be invisible on the Online Users block. A Moodle 1.9.x and 2.x solution.
Learning Outcome: at the end of this post, you will know how to allow your Moodle 1.9 and 2.0 users to hide themselves on the Online Users block. Now I don't know about you, but I like, no, LOVE, the Online Users block by Andy J. Davis. It lends an air of Web 2.0 for Moodle. The feeling of a learning community that the block helps to foster is [...]
12 Moodle tools to interact with your students online by @WizIQ
Full disclosure, WizIQ (@wiziq)is a sponsor of Moodlenews (see the ad space to the right) providing financial support for our operating/hosting costs. Here's an easy to digest list of good tools for Moodle that you might consider using. Many are not standard activities/modules but each is available below as a list from the [...]
The 2nd Annual Global Education Conference Starts today! #GlobalEd11
At 11am EST Alan November (one of many great speakers) kicks off the 2nd Annual Global Education Conference, while it's not necessarily Moodle-focused or -related, it does offer a host of professional development, discussions and top-notch presenters and keynote from around the world. GEC is hosted entirely on Elluminate/Wimba (now Blackboard [...]
Free Web-based Moodle Moot Starting 8/17 #MMVC11
There's another web-based Moodle Moot starting soon, this one is free to attend and will be held entirely via WizIQ. There are around 30 sessions spread over 5 days featuring product demos, tips, tricks and demonstrations, and all sorts of other great training sessions on anything from Moodle Quiz to migrating from another LMS to Moodle to using [...]
@njit_moodle’s Moodle overview Video
On the great page of resources that NJIT (New Jersey's Science and Technology University) has pulled together, there's a handy Youtube video that they use to introduce and explore the notion of an online course. The full page of resources: http://moodle.njit.edu/ The following is an embed of the video "A Tour of Moodle" , which is [...]
Benefits of K-12 Online Learning using Moodle
Here's a presentation less about the in's and out's of Moodle but the reasons for adopting and the benefits of implementing LMSs such as Moodle. It was created and shared by Mark Schmoll on his blog. It's a simple, straight forward presentation which then gives a brief overview of a standard Moodle install. View the video at this link: [...]
Miguel’s Moodle Habitudes
Miguel Guhlin is the Director of Instructional Technology Services at San Antonio ISD in Texas (since 2002). He's well known in the Moodle community, specifically through his blog which offers first hand experiences and tips about using and managing Moodle in a large district. While starting his education as a elementary teacher, Miguel now [...]
iMoot coming to a computer near you
Julien Ridden (aka Moodleman) and others are pulling together the first ever, completely virtual Moodle Moot. "iMoot 2010", as it's called, will take place online January 7th through the 10th and will feature presentations from around the globe. Presenters will engage participants online using webinar based software (to be determined), [...]
