Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
Free Course by @SukhwantLota: Pushing Moodle content to Twitter
Here's a slick little course that highlights how you can push RSS information from your Moodle course (forum postings) to a Twitter account. The course was created/shared by Sukhwant Lota (@SukhwantLota) at Leeds City College and highlights the few steps to making it happen. It's a pretty cool little tool if you're interested in letting [...]
Moodle all atwitter (a Twitter-like Theme for Moodle by @Moodledan)
Here's a great new theme for Moodle 1.9 which we previewed a few months ago. The theme was developed by Dan Humpherson (@moodledan). The theme features a familiar layout borrowed from Twitter but also boasts a cool, consistently available navigation style bar at the top of the page (for courses, profile and messages), a two column (both to the [...]
10 Things you can do with a Moodle webpage
Here are a couple of ideas for what you can do with Moodle's webpage, which are generally blank canvases in your classroom that might be under utilized. By knowing how to toggle the plain text view in any html editor you too can embed some of these great little tools. Here's a quick list, with a link to my test course where you can see these [...]
This Moodle’s looking a little Twittery (a new theme by @moodledan)
@Moodledan aka Dan Humpherson has created a very striking theme based on the Twitter CSS and layout for Moodle which you can see in action at his site http://dan.ms/moodle/. The theme is not yet available in the Moodle theme database, but it's a great example of how even Moodle 1.9 can be skinned to work and feel like other sites across the [...]
The 11+ Moodle Twitterers you should be following
Please note that this list is subjective, it's not meant to be comprehensive or complete and there are a good many Twitterers all contributing to Moodle news not on this list (just watch the post titles). With the entire Moodle Twitter community things would be much more boring around here. Follow the whole list at this [...]
Moodlenews gets it’s 1,000th follower, @trkeekr!
It's been a long, hard road...Actually, that's not true. It's been a short, amazingly fantastic and fun-filled journey (which only started in December '09). I'm proud to say that Moodlenews attracted it's 1,000th twitter follower today. Thanks for joining our community, Rolf (@trkeekr)!
Moodle Monday: Moodle and Twitter
This week I've been looking at some of the options for getting Twitter feeds to display in a Moodle course. I've written up two possibilities here- using the RSS feed or a widget. The Twitter Widget This can be used to display your own twitter feed either in a block on your course or as embedded HTML in a web page or label. It looks a [...]
What’s in your HTML Block? new video from @moodlerooms
The HTML block in Moodle is a blank slate for pulling in content dynamically to your course. There's a great new video from Moodlerooms that highlights the flexibility of the HTML block and how to embed dynamic content such as Twitter searches right into your course. What's in your HTML block? More videos and information at [...]
Free, Open Twitter course made in Moodle from @JISC_RSC_SE
The Regional Support Centre (South East) in the UK has opened their "Twitter - Making the Most of Tweets" course and it's available for download: http://moodle-rsc.ukc.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=76&username=guest Use that link to access the course, see what it's about, help it improve and even download it for you own Moodle. It covers [...]
#mootuk10 Recap by @fstoner “Marvellous Moot”
This release comes to MoodleMonthly from Frank Steiner (@fstoner). A special thanks to Frank for providing this excellent recap. A download of the release is available at http://moodlemootuk2010.org.uk/files/2010/04/MoodleMootUK2010_Summary.pdf --FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-- MoodleMoot UK 2010 – Marvellous Moot MoodleMoot UK 2010 (#mootuk10) [...]
