Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Mahara is integrated with our Moodle system, and provides the tools to set up your own personal learning and development environment; used mainly in our Work Based Learning Projects for Foundation Degree students. Mahara , our fully featured open source electronic portfolio. Finally Open Simulator , a web 3.0D

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 17, 2015

It all seemed to start off with a request to convert some course options for one of the professional programmes to being fully online, in fact students could in theory even take just the online course as part of professional development anyway, and it was that possibility that raised a whole raft of other considerations.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

My first impression is that this really is a better method when it comes to giving complex explanations; ideas can be developed in real time, and lends themselves a more personalised response. sides of A4, I think more than I would usually do on average, or without doubt at or above the upper limit of my handwritten or typed feedback.

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Apart from my work here at Bromley Colleg with Moodle and all that that involves, some time ago, I think it must be about 7 or 8 years now, I discovered 3DML and started to do some developing with buidling 3D worlds or Spots as they were called back then. Anyway I built a Spot, and trialed it with my students with really encouraging results.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2010

A problem developed recently following some postings from a particular student. For one, given the removal of the Journal facility in Moodle it is good to still have an easy means by which students can record their progress, thoughts and findings etc. Second, publishing to anyone on this site is literally that.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 26, 2012

So then, according to the outcome of that work here is what the best teachers do: They are relational: They develop student-to-student, student-to-educator, and student-to-parent relationships. They are hopeful: They inspire students with energy and enthusiasm for the future.

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

One of the courses that see particularly heavy use of the vle here at Bromley is my BTEC National Software Development. Keen as I always am to make use of our vle for course delivery, I am also very keen to find evidence on its effectiveness with regard to student outcomes.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 10, 2008

For my own part I will see my current role as administrator and course creator being disseminated, so leaving me with the time and space to develop a training programme for content production and strategies more consistent with using Moodle as a VLE.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

My own initial reaction was yes, but the list begins to grow, and I thought why not produce a set of small eLearning modules, for instance:- An appreciation of what we understand by the term eLearning Developing - adopting a delivery and assessment framework Considerations for eLearning content design Integrating Moodle web 2.0

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Moodle Journal

MAY 30, 2006

As part of my lecturing I teach Java to BTEC level 3 students and once we have arrived at the point where they can competently produce small GUI applications, I introduce them to Robocode, developed by Mathew Nelson, a software engineer at IBM.

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Moodle Journal

APRIL 29, 2008

More specifically, it extends the functionality of the IMS Repository system originally developed by Alton College, UK. I received an email recently describing a new content repository from the Worcester College of technology, its called MrCute and is intended to be an optional add-on to the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2011

I for one have signed up to the service and will be staying in touch with developments and interested to see the uptake and use for this new and welcome initiative. One thing is for sure though, and that is competition is always good, at least that’s my view, so let’s sit back and see what happens in the coming months.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 3, 2012

If you read this blog regularly then you will no doubt have come across my posting some time ago, where I reported developing a new lesson plan where grouped content could be copy-n-pasted straight into a block. I also picked up concern over spaces and underscores, and need to look into that.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 15, 2012

If you have been around the Mood le vle or for that matter any vle for a while, then you will have I am sure over the years developed and or deployed in support of eLearning various scorm packages.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2005

Anyway that was Wednesday, today, Friday, went to arrange training times with Staff Development for both morning and evening sessions, only to find that enquiries have already begun, the newsletter is being read!!!

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 7, 2006

After a questionnaire was pass among the e-Learning contacts with regard to how they would like to develop in their various skill options, Moodle I am pleased see won the day, and so I am scheduled for an afternoon of training this Thursday.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 2, 2006

There was an excellent keynote presentation by Andrew Williams, Director of ILT Support and Development at Kingston College and Regional Coordinator for the Blackboard User Group. The other Friday 26/05, I went along the RSC VLE AGM entitled, ‘Playing Institutional Snakes and Ladders’.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Just the other day I found that I am to be teaching on the OO Development and OO Applications courses (that’s all about objects to us programming nerds). Things Moodle-wise here at Bromley are looking OK for the start of the coming academic year. The new vle is up and running and the old version for 0506 is now only available to staff.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 15, 2008

The reason for my inclusion of this event in a blog on Moodle, is that if like myself you have come to feel that to become a vle, certainly in my own understanding of the term, requires more than just the copious posting of course notes onto the system, but the development of materials more consistent with an eLearning delivery platform than a class (..)

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eBook VLE Music Moodle 100

Moodle Journal

AUGUST 10, 2006

In developing an on-line presence, I have some confidence the social networking aspects will act as a mechanism promoting the emergence of groups to eventually coalesce into virtual communities; eventually, though according to Rena Palloff they can happen almost instantaneously. I naturally intend being part of all this as you can see here.

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Social Networks MySpace VLE Social Network 100

Moodle Journal

JANUARY 6, 2006

went smoothly and I completed necessary changes to the course notes, so they will be OK to go for the next staff development. The upgrade to Moodle 1.5.2 Started work on the “Creating a Quiz in Moodle” course and it's about 50+% complete so hopefully I can start to offer that by the end of Jan.

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Moodle Journal

DECEMBER 10, 2005

The toolbox is a collection of hardware and software tools that are grouped under the headings of: Assessment, Content Creation, Communications, Learning Management Tools, Mobile Learning, Multi Media, Networking, Repurposing,Repository, Videoconferencing, VLE Application, Web, Whiteboards and looks like becoming a one-stop-shop for e-Learning and (..)

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Moodle Journal

DECEMBER 29, 2005

I have a suspicion that in the long term it may be a more effective time/benefit approach than continuing the development of my PHP/MySQL application, what with ePortfolio space and tracking soon to appear over the horizon, or so I am reliably informed!! Well I have completed the update of course training notes for the new 1.5

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Track MySQL Moodle Version 100

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2005

So if you are running a VLE how do these compare, please let us all know by replying if you have time.

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Change VLE Moodle Newsletter 100

Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

After meeting with curriculum development, we agreed on a portrait layout, with all relevant student information grouped into rows, that can be copied and pasted in one go from Word to Moodle. At the moment lesson plans are written in Word, with content spread around a complex landscape table structure.

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

Published in April 2005, the report is based around survey results that have been returned from FE and HE institutes in the UK on the current and future developments in E-learning and support processes.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 15, 2006

While you may be thinking that this blog is likely to go quite given it’s the end of the academic year, I will now have the task of helping to write the actual bid and on a completely separate tack, preparing for a new venture as we develop our plans in forming a partnership with a commercial company in the deployment of the Moodle VLE beyond our more (..)

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VLE Moodle Write Blog Network 100

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 22, 2005

With the assignment submitted on-line, I have been able to provide some initial grading impressions and timely hint-n-tip type individual feedback, a welcome improvement all round on the old weekly review slot, which I can now use for teaching, WOW!

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 9, 2006

On a more positive note, I was about to say constructive, I am continuing with the development of a sequence to support my students as they come to terms with Object Orientation in Java, I’ll certainly get back on that one.

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Moodle Journal

DECEMBER 22, 2005

version that will be available from the start of spring term and developing new courses, one for quizzes, hopefully I am going to be able to get both Moodle and Hotpotatoes into the same session and the other in creating lessons in Moodle. Over the holiday period I am going to be updating my course notes for our new Moodle 1.5

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 2, 2005

I have been thinking about ongoing support for Moodle and have approached our Open Access support team, who are keen to be involved by the way, to provide a regular drop-in workshop for anyone wishing to develop their ideas following initial training, thereby providing a more personalised service, all very encouraging.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 30, 2005

Often freely available, Java Applets seem in the main to have been developed for science and mathematical type applications, have a look at this collection , though there are many others out there such as this representation of various sort algorithms , it's always good to find something that you hadn’t realised you’d lost.

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Simulations Learning Objects Learning Objectives Web 100

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 5, 2005

After my last post on the CMS / VLE debate, I have started to get some feedback on new learning materials at long last, this week my level 3 Software Development students currently working through Software Design methods where surprised by the arrival of an assessment (formative) on Tuesday afternoon, the colour did appear to drain from a couple of (..)

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VLE Learning Objects Movie Examples 100

Moodle Journal

JUNE 22, 2015

If it turns on depth, then I perceive further accessibility issues developing as the click-depth to our new toolkit resource bank is also 4. Not an easy question, or one that I suspect has a single answer, but from my web design knowledge I am aware of the issues surrounding click-depth, and in this case it was 4.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 31, 2011

I will start with an apology for the broken links on the blog, the server that I am using here at the College has recently been moved and has since developed a problem with the fan, which eventually failed.

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Wimba Case Study SharePoint Moodle 124

Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

During the conversation, especially as the subject of games and games d evelopment was very on the table, I mention ed that we had introduced Greenfoot, this is a great little and drag and drop development type of environment for teaching games written in Java, ideal for our level 3 student, so if you have yet to see the application then I recommend (..)

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2011

From this last statement, you can correctly conclude that a certain amount of discussion took place on the very subject of learning objects themselves, principally some definitions and advantages they represent for both students and staff / developers alike.

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