Thursday, April 23, 2009

Moodling in a Business School in Slovenia

Dear Moodlers,

Today I would like to present you a paper that describes the continuous adoption of the Moodle system at the faculty of management Koper, Slovenia. The authors of the paper present their experience in using Moodle to support e-learning, teacher and tutor training, project management and the building of a community of Slovenian Moodle users (Moodlers). In this paper the authors focused on presenting the pedagogical approach to using Moodler for e-learning.

Join the paper and do not forget to leave your comments!
Also, join our Moodlers group of Scribd where you can upload and download several documents conserning Moodle. If you would like to join this group, click on the following link (or copy and paste it into your web browser).

http://www.scribd.com/group/74132-moodlers

Moodling in a Business School in Slovenia Moodling in a Business School in Slovenia Viktorija Sulcic

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Free Intro to Teaching with Moodle Class

My fellow Moodlers take advantage of a free intro to teaching with Moodle Class. Mrs. Allisun O'Connell offers a free introduction class to teach with Moodle.

"I have another live Edufire class on Introduction to Teaching with Moodle scheduled for May 3, 10:30am-Noon PST. Sign up with Edufire and register here:
http://edufire.com/classes/2056-introduction-to-teaching-with-moodle

I am looking forward to participate in this FREE class!

Monday, April 20, 2009

Buddy2 - Resource Central

Hello my fellow Moodlers,

Today I am going to present you one of the most awesome Moodler Resouces... Of course my blog is the best but still exist some other good resources.

I am presenting you the Buddy Project.

The Buddy2 have several handouts that apply to Moodle 1.8. The best thing is that these resources are freely available to the general public to download or use to support individual learning of Moodle course development skills and features!

Is not awesome? Yes it is!

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Open Invitation (Moodlers Power)

Do you want to network with Moodlers?

The Moodlers Online Community connects moodlers from around the world!
Ning is an online service to create, customize, and share a social network.
LinkedIn is an interconnected network of experienced professionals from around the world.Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents.

Lets connect, interact and share the Knowledge!!!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Moodle Free E-Book

For an open source software we need a free e-book!

Using Moodle - Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System by Jason Cole and Helen Foster is published by O'Reilly as part of the Community Press series.

The first edition of the book, written by Jason Cole and released in July 2005, is based on Moodle 1.4. The second edition, released in November 2007, has been updated to cover all the features in Moodle 1.8, such as the new roles and permissions system, blogs, messaging and the database module.

Book download

The second edition of Using Moodle is now available for download as a zipped PDF file:

Thanks to members of the worldwide Moodle user community for their discussion and documentation contributions, many of which have been included in the book.

Resource: (http://docs.moodle.org/)

Moodle Resources

Videos
This tutorial guides you through the basic steps of creating an online tutorial in Moodle LMS. To view the full length tutorial go to http://www.moodletutorials.org
Use 'unseen'resources to make your course homepage look more like a regular website
In this tutorial, we learn how to set a category theme which will apply to all sub-categories and courses in Moodle 1.9. To view the full size video, go to www.moodletutorials.org Introducción a la plataforma Moodle, ésta es una Bienvenida a la plataforma Moodle del la Universidad Mayor de San Simón

Free Moodle Workshop

Join a free Moodle workshop on Wikieducator.

Please watch a live online recording of a session given on WiZiQ by Dr. Anne Thorpe on Moodle and how it can be used for teachers interested in integrating technology into their classes.

Moodle Books

Are you looking for a book about Moodle?
If yes, the only thing that you have to do is to visit Moodle Books database, which contains a variety of books and manuals, for both teachers and administrators, written by members of the Moodle community.

It should be noted that when you buy a book from the Moodle Books database, you're helping support Moodle development, as a percentage of all sales goes to the Moodle Trust

Moodle Tutorial On Setting up Parent Accounts

This is a tutorial for administrators running moodle who wish to set up an account for parents so that they can view their child's progress.

Really nice approach and easy to follow!



Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Moodle Reaches 30 Million Users


According to the statistics on Moodle.org, Moodle now has more than 30 million users!

Moodle continues to grow very quickly and is one of the most widely used online learning management systems in the world.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Moodlemoot 2009 Oklahoma







MoodleMoot Oklahoma is now calling for presenters!

We will have a pre-moot training day on June 10, 2009, and the moot itself will be June 11 and 12, 2009.

June 10

Pre-Moot
The Pre-Moot training day will provide instruction and hands-on activities to participants who need to know basic Moodle knowledge. Topics covered will include how to set up a course, create quizzes and assignments, and using the discussion forum and glossary. If you are a new or inexperienced Moodle user it is recommended that you attend Pre-Moot.

More details will be posted when available.

June 11 & 12

Moodle Moot
We are interested in offering five tracks during the moot - curriculum, hands-on, technical, business, and Moodle 2.0.

The
curriculum track will focus on using Moodle for curriculum development and delivery and cool & unique ways to use Moodle in the classroom. If you are using Moodle in some exciting ways, we'd love to have you present.

The
hands-on track will focus on teaching others how to set up courses and use various components of Moodle. Computer labs will be provided and limited to 10-15 users each, with help (hopefully) to keep everyone on track with what you're doing. This track was the most popular last year and we could use all the help you can give us.

The
technical track will focus on technical and administrative aspects of Moodle. How are you securing Moodle? What have you done with Moodle code that lets you do just what your organization needs? We'll have our fair share of geeks and moodle administrators that will be on the edge of their seats listening to what you have to say.

The
business track will focus on using Moodle for corporate training needs. Academia isn't the only place for Moodle. We think this would be a wonderful opportunity to share how Moodle is being used in other environments from small business to large organizations or government. Come teach us some of what you know.

The
Moodle 2.0 track will focus on showcasing the features and capabilities introduced in Moodle 2.0. If you have inside information about the improvements in Moodle 2.0 we'd love to have you come tell us about them.

If you're interested in presenting, please click the link below. The deadline for proposals is April 18, 2009. A conference schedule will be posted after the presentation proposals have been reviewed.

If need further information please click the following link
http://moodle.metrotech.org/

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Moodle and Chrome

Several Moodlers have installed Google Chrome. Several of us realized that the response time seems better when viewing Moodle courses. However the GUI editor is not working! You can only see a raw HTML.

As the most of you understand the default editor in Moodle is not supported by Chrome. The good part is that you can apply a patch to use TinyMCE as the editor or to wait for Moodle 2.0 which will use TinyMCE by default.

If you want to know how to apply the TinyMCE patch click the following link:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=107550

However, you will need to have some technical knowledge.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Higher Education Moodle Case Studies

Higher Education Moodle Case Studies.

I would like to share with you higher education moodle case studies from around the world. All case studies below are unedited and the content is solely that of the authors. Also the case studies were brought to you from Moodlerooms Resource Center


SUNY Delhi College of Technology
Clark Shah-Nelson
Coordinator of Online Technology
View the presentation


Athabasca University
Brian Stewart
CIO
View the presentation


Goshen College
Floyd E. Saner
Director of Instructional Technology
View the presentation


Pitt Community College
Jonathan Sweetin & Tina Farmer
View the presentation

If you have a case study you would like to share, please contact Moodlerooms and they will make it available for all to see.