Moodle Journal

JUNE 28, 2011

Our network support team are managing connection issues right now and this week we are going to be looking at how we will be deploying these resources beyond the initial project once it completes.

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iPad Camera Movie Performance Support 145

Moodle Journal

JUNE 8, 2015

And if you are of the view that students are always going to be students, then please take a look at the qualities for Generation X and Millennials hiring managers feel they are most likely to posses; this must surely also say something not insignificant about our cohorts (slide 113).

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Internet Report Slides Trends 100

Moodle Journal

MARCH 7, 2013

First off was this ‘ Your must-have classroom toolkit’ from TES, where they have from contributions from over 130,000 teachers assembled a really impressive list of class management and planning resources, and by the way these are all free. So simply follow the links to. Next there was ‘ The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You’.

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Resources Toolkit Moodle Poll 113

Moodle Journal

JANUARY 22, 2011

At my own college where I manage the eLearning projects, things most certainly starting to look promising. I have one project approved already for the Mahara ePortfolio. Then came a request for two collaborative projects with a college in Holland.

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VLE Moodle Server Virtual World 140

Moodle Journal

JULY 27, 2011

In one particular year, I certainly managed to get pretty much wholesale agreement with using the social network for both easy contact and handing out achievement comments’ and graphical badges and general course information.

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Social Networks Facebook Education VLE 145

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

So I was encouraged to discover a net article recently entitled ‘ Technology makes a difference in student achievement’ from sourcenewspapers.com, where a teacher describes how she managed to improve here class outcomes from 81 percent with 100 percent, and attributes this to the use of iPads, an interesting though somewhat specialist approach however (..)

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iPad eLearning Specialist Classes 100

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2010

From the available options you should be able to find one that allows you to manage blog posts. The answer really is not to simply rely upon site defaults, but to make use of the various options available in Administration > Security > Site policies. Blogs are a really useful resource, its really a matter of fine tuning.

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Blogging VLE Moodle RSS 113

Moodle Journal

JULY 30, 2012

Just as our term here finished I received a invitation from Amrit Ahluwalia the Managing Editor of online newspaper for continuing education and lifelong learning Evolllution.com asking if I would be prepared to write a short article based around the question ‘What impact do you think mobile apps are going to have on adults in higher education?’

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Wimba Moodle Quiz Journal 113

Moodle Journal

MARCH 2, 2010

An Introduction to Moodle System settings Labels and headings Editing facilities Managing files and folders Linking to resources Assignments Moodle web 2.0 In case anyone is interested in the content of the courses on offer I have listed the indexes below.

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VLE Moodle Quiz RSS 100

Moodle Journal

MAY 20, 2014

By 2015, more than 50% of organisations that manage innovation processes will gamify those processes (Gartner). A few thought provoking facts are included that I thought worth posting here:- By 2014, more than 70% of Global 2000 organisations will have at least one ‘gamified’ application (Gartner).

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WizIQ Second Life Gartner Virtual World 100

Moodle Journal

MARCH 6, 2010

In all this my task is going to be to manage the various projects up to the point of their go-live date and then to collect feedback at completion. As you can see from the flyer, projects will fall into three categories of short, medium and long, each attracting a payment in the form of paid hours, that’s the sweetener.

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Project VLE PDF Learning 113

Moodle Journal

JULY 12, 2011

I think I could a make tentative assumption from this that for many staff the idea of training during term time is still difficult to manage. Overall the whole morning ran very smoothly and candidates have been generous and encouraging with feedback.

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Moodle VLE News Training 113

Moodle Journal

MARCH 22, 2012

From what I managed to appreciate about app so far it wouldappear that social Media enthusiasts see it as a medium of choice forlife-streaming, but for myself brilliant for student field trips.

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Moodle Wimba Quiz Adobe 113

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Apart from all the very predictable events and chores of a post enrolment week, I have managed to get a good amount of time both in college and out for the production of new phase 3 vle training notes.

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VLE Wimba Case Study Training 113

Moodle Journal

APRIL 29, 2008

IMS (Instructional Management Standards) Global Learning Consortium is an international body which aims to set standards for interoperability between learning systems. The specific standards involved in this case are the IMS Content Packaging Standards.

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Moodle IM IMS Virtual Learning Environment 100

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2011

I look after a Moodle installation here at the college and its hosted internally, a good option really as you get to have control over many issues such as upgrades and local management of the system, so I am not to sure how these would translate for cloud based solutions, but lets see. Will OpenClass compete with Moodle, who can tell.

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Social Networks LMS Wiki Moodle 100

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 18, 2009

The other day I had an email from our network manager with a link to a BBC news item promoting the use of social networking in colleges using Facebook ; strange that I often go to some lengths in separating social from computer networking during conversations, still.

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Social Networks Facebook VLE Social Network 100

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2009

If you look at the Microsoft site for this then OneNote is described as an ‘ easy-to-use note-taking and information-management program where you can capture ideas and information in electronic form. The other day I discovered OneNote , which comes with Microsoft Office 2007.

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OneNote PENS Microsoft Write Blog 100

Moodle Journal

MARCH 3, 2007

For all those who did manage to stay the course, I presented feedback assessment for collaboration, and there is without doubt overwhelming support from them as well as a sense of achievement. However for students who’s engagement / attendance proved patchy before the project, the new approach seemed to be of little positive influence.

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VLE Project Moodle Assessment 100

Moodle Journal

JULY 24, 2007

So how do I intend to breakdown the content into printed and video formats?

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Video Moodle Video Format Calendar 100

Moodle Journal

MAY 5, 2005

I am also having some success in the area of six form colleges, with invites to visit IT managers and members of senior management teams on the subject.

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VLE Moodle Internationalization Teams 100

Moodle Journal

AUGUST 15, 2006

The suggestion is that our pop cultures game playing has contributed to our ability in managing rising complexity and cognitive demands. In fact my interest in games has taken an upward leap after discovering the Sleeper Curve in Steven Johnson’s book ‘Everything bad is good for you’ ( I can recommend it).

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Cognitive Microsoft Games Version 100

Moodle Journal

JULY 12, 2006

If you do manage to view the webcast I would be interested in any feedback to this blog, for now I have a few finishing touches to the presentations to get on with, so I’ll sign off. The network team have been working hard getting my request for streaming to work and this afternoon I saw it in action.

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Streaming Webcast Network Collaboration 100

Moodle Journal

JUNE 17, 2006

If all goes well, the project will be extending my initial trial in deploying Moodle beyond its course management role and into the realms of virtual learning, so do watch this space I spent last weekend putting together an overview for a JISC bid, that if successful will lead to the funding of a collaborative inter-college project.

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Integrate Moodle Portal News 100

Moodle Journal

JULY 15, 2006

The web-cast also worked and our network manager informs me that we had 10 IP addresses connected, though one of those was him, so I guess that leaves 9. Well the JISC bid event with our partner colleges went really well, and now I am looking forward to seeing the whole project hopefully come to life in the New Year.

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VLE Moodle Write Blog Network 100

Moodle Journal

JANUARY 8, 2006

I have had to set up groups to keep it manageable with chat actually about work even at weekends! Just before our return to college I set myself up, for the first time, on MSN Messenger and emailed my group. Guess what, most are in; as are some members from other courses who found out about it.

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Moodle Teach Quality Project 100

Moodle Journal

JULY 6, 2006

Among the new features are a file manager, rich text editor and tab dialog boxes for sequence components, all good user friendly stuff. As LAMS is now integrated with Moodle, I have given it a trial to good effect with one of my own courses, and enthusiastic about running some more at the college in the coming year.

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Moodle Streaming Version Conference 100

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 27, 2005

For that materials need to be more engaging than those static handouts, and so I am preparing some questionnaires on the new material for students to complete, and its the outcome of this that will ultimately separate the VLE from a Course Management System; my distinction, and I guess cred.

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Big Question VLE Moodle Classes 100

Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 7, 2005

Normally a three hour course it was compressed into just over two hours on request from the customer, everything went well with all the delegates acquiring the techniques for file upload, folder management, linking and zipping content. As usual I have left access open for them until half term so they can practice.

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Moodle Open Custom Course 100

Moodle Journal

JANUARY 29, 2006

The implications and impact of the VLE have begun to filter out far beyond just teaching staff, with our Quality Manager now chairing a new steering group, which is good, should be interesting, goes without saying. In the last couple of weeks I conducted an audit of user activity.

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Stock VLE Moodle Exercise 100

Moodle Journal

DECEMBER 17, 2005

Why, because used in this way we have a course management system, not a vle. Course notes on the web are just course notes from the print room and without repurposing for e-Learning this was no surprise, basically an exercise to confirm what I felt I already knew.

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VLE Moodle Tutorial Exercise 100

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2005

And apart from the obvious use, I realised that its going make an interesting chronicle of how my activities change with the rollout.

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VLE Change Moodle Newsletter 100

Moodle Journal

DECEMBER 10, 2005

I recently came across the RSC e-Toolbox.

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VLE Network Mobile Learning Web 100

Moodle Journal

AUGUST 31, 2011

My ambition here ultimately is to deploy our Moodle system more as a Virtual Learning Environment and not just a Course Management System, so you may like to stay in touch to see how we get on.

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Wimba Case Study SharePoint Moodle 124

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2011

In fact I think it was the features of this last stage i.e. the launching and tracking of the object by Moodles Learning Management System that impressed the assembled group as much as the transformation of the material itself. After the initial production work we exported the material in scorm format and upload onto the vle.

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VLE Wimba Learning Objects Moodle 113

Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

And as the digital rights management (DRM) restrictions on e-books makes lending someone your copy difficult if not impossible, students are likely steering away from e-books because they simply don’t work for them — practically or economically.

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eBook VLE Statistics Sales 113

Moodle Journal

DECEMBER 17, 2012

From my own reading of the infographic, I must confess it does generate some questions, not least that while I agree eGooks are cheaper, a physical book can be re-sold, whereas the DRM (Digital Rights Management) on eBooks will almost certainly prevent this. What do you think, please feel free to comment.

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Survey eBook Moodle Tutorial 140