Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Topic Hubs are sites that aggregates content from a variety of sources, organizes that content around keywords in the topic domain, and supports both manual and social curation of that content. It uses the Browse My Stuff technology to create this topic hub. There are a variety of ways you can Participate in the eLearning Learning community.

Blogging 100

Blogging eLearning Site Community 100

Moodle Journal

JULY 11, 2010

The evaluation will be placed into our Moodle vle along with any supporting reference materials such as screen shots, how-to guides, videos etc. Well in the first instance everyone completing a project will complete an evaluation document, there is an example of the template here so just click on the link.

Case Study 140

Case Study Study Project VLE 140

Moodle Journal

JUNE 17, 2015

We soon realised however that an online course should have online payment, online enrolment and of course following that, seamless access to the actual Moodle course itself, all through a new web page on our college website.

Blended Learning 100

Blended Learning Blended Wimba Corporate eLearning 100

Moodle Journal

JUNE 28, 2012

Where relevant, inspectors should take into account: how the different needs of groups of learners are met the effectiveness of learning outside learning sessions through technology, reviews and tutorials care and support in their broadest forms, both in and between learning sessions.

Conference 124

Conference Case Study Virtual Learning Environment VLE 124

Moodle Journal

JULY 30, 2012

x does not support the iframe tag, something that I will have to update my notes on this one. There however one small glitch in the way YouTube appear to be presenting link options, as one of my selected videos no longer had the Old Embedded code available associated with it. The issue arises because Moodle 1.9.x

Wimba 113

Wimba Moodle Quiz Journal 113

Moodle Journal

MAY 26, 2012

Lets face it, getting a vle to work for you is not simply about knowing your way around the menu options, its equally about deployment in support of a blended teaching delivery, at least that’s the way that I am seeing it. As for the first part of the session that has caused me some extra thought.

Conference 113

Conference VLE Wimba Moodle 113

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

One of my objectives for 09/10 is to begin moving away from the usual assessment method involving fairly prescriptive coursework toward a more open ended and self directed type of assignment; this will of course require a change of approach in more than one area, not least the requirement of tutorial type support on my part.

Moodle 100

Moodle Tutorial Forum Exercise 100

Moodle Journal

JANUARY 11, 2010

In essence similar to Twitter, but with some functionality to support classroom activities. So how about a microblogging system that has been designed specifically for teachers and students? If you have not seen it yet, then take a look at Edmodo.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Network Calendar Twitter 100

Moodle Journal

MARCH 22, 2012

This littletool is seems to be be designed around need to support mobile blogging inthat includes the features of postingusing an email, with attachments of photos, MP3s, documents, and video (bothlinks and files. I have almostcompletely recasted his code, and borrowed some ideas concerning the interfacefrom Enrique Casto.My

Moodle 113

Moodle Wimba Quiz Adobe 113

Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

I came across the “Study of Environments to Support e-learning in UK Further and Higher Education” report produced by Education for Change Ltd produced by The Research Partnership for JISC recently. Please feel free to feedback on your own comments

Analysis 100

Analysis Survey Report Study 100

Moodle Journal

MARCH 3, 2012

x, we are now beginning to consider the way forward for migration to Moodle 2, not least because it seems support for Moodle 1.x In common with a lot of colleges, universities and institutes running Moodle 1.x, x will cease this coming summer. To this end I was more then enthusiastic to get myself along the an RSC event in London ‘Moodle-2.0

Moodle 133

Moodle VLE Upgrade Big Question 133

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.

VLE 100

VLE Project Moodle Assessment 100

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.

Moodle 100

Moodle Open Services Ideas 100

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.

VLE 100

VLE Wimba SCORM Simulations 100

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2005

Macromedia Flash arrived for the VLE Content Development team, and the Support Workshop requested a support course in Moodle so they can carryout demonstrations for users!! Everything seems to be falling into place.

Moodle 100

Moodle Macromedia VLE Newsletter 100

Moodle Journal

MARCH 8, 2007

Starting Monday 12th March ULCC are running London's first Online Conference looking at Web2 Technologies supporting 'personalisation' called LEON (London e-Learning Online Network).

Project 100

Project Second Life Asynchronous Lecture 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.

Change 100

Change VLE Moodle Newsletter 100

Moodle Journal

JULY 12, 2006

Tomorrow we shall be presenting our proposal details to partner colleges for the JISC bid along the lines of ‘ access to online content, and tools to support collaborative working and personalised learning experiences’. The network team have been working hard getting my request for streaming to work and this afternoon I saw it in action.

Streaming 100

Streaming Webcast Network Collaboration 100

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’.

VLE 100

VLE Case Study Blackboard ILT 100

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2006

This year has been really different though rather than explain courses in detail with references to handouts, assignments and grading, I talked almost exclusively about the part Moodle would play as a delivery platform in support of the collaborative leaning framework and assessment strategies that proved successful in last year’s trial.

MySpace 100

MySpace Social Networks Social Network Moodle 100

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

I then asked them to reply to at least 2 postings, but not if they were already friends; I encourage this in support of the need to establish a virtual presence, after all given the diminishing requirement of funding bodies, students are only actually at College 2.5 Postings could include links, particularly if they had Myspace, some did.

MySpace 100

MySpace Moodle Forum Exercise 100

Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 8, 2005

So the next move is to run 30 minute support drop-in workshop slots each week, where at least candidates get to work together for a while. Please stay tuned on this one.

Moodle 100

Moodle Study Problem Ideas 100

Moodle Journal

MARCH 21, 2006

There is a copy of the working environment here , where you can see the project was built around Learning Objects, Forums, Chats and Wiki’s in support of a problem based collaborative learning exercise.

VLE 100

VLE Moodle Skype Learning Objects 100

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.

Moodle 100

Moodle Journal Classes Project 100

Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 18, 2005

Our ILT support Danny dream't up the idea of creating a Moodle area for staff as a means of getting more people invloved, featuring: college and Moodle newsletter, photos, Social events like theatre trips and items for sale, it seems to be growing, could be good.

Moodle 100

Moodle VLE Business Photo 100

Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 4, 2005

Their mission is to " support and promote continuing improvement in the quality of data curation and of associated digital preservation ". Recently I came across the DCC,(Digital Curation Centre), The DCC provide HE & FE with future-proof best practice on digital content preservation: harmonised with available content storage.

VLE 100

VLE Simulations Moodle Director 100

Moodle Journal

MARCH 4, 2013

New - Added support for New Layout in themes! To use keyboard shortcuts in your Moodle themes, press Ctrl+Shift+K to see your list of Admin keyboard shortcuts. Watch out this space, Moodle UI is gonna get richer in interaction!! New - Added Moodle Bar for easy navigation.

Moodle 140

Moodle Design Tutorial Press 140

Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

I did have an unexpected and interesting call from JISC Collections today, if you have not heard if this branch of JISC, then do take a look at their website, but basically they were established by the UK Higher and Further Education funding councils, to support the procurement of digital content for education and research in the UK.

Moodle 133

Moodle Social Networks VLE Harassment Training 133

Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2011

I see these new materials, as putting into place the final part of a resource package for implementing an e-Learning strategy that draw upon those other tools available in the vle in support of collaborative learning.

VLE 113

VLE Wimba Learning Objects Moodle 113

Moodle Journal

MAY 10, 2014

Without going into too much detail surrounding the site as there is a lot of advice and case study material, the actual toolkit itself covers the following headings Realism (as opposed to pure fantasy) Complexity and Inclusiveness Learning Focused Flow Time Constraints and Flexibility Requirements Support General Curriculum Generic / Employability (..)

Games 124

Games VLE Case Study Synchronous 124

Moodle Journal

JANUARY 6, 2012

ePolicy time With the training now in place to support staff in moving components of programmes away from the traditional class approach and toward an eLearning mode as part of our standard course delivery.

VLE 100

VLE Code of Conduct SharePoint Server 100

Moodle Journal

APRIL 15, 2008

support a transparent Single Sign On, all well worth a look. An advantage to this approach is that students can display their artifacts in views depending on the intended audience; seems good in itself. In relation to Moodle, its appears that 1.9 and Mahara v0.9 Please feel free to reply to this blog of you have any thoughts.

Open Source 100

Open Source Moodle Social Networks Open 100

Moodle Journal

AUGUST 12, 2007

I must say that I was more than pleased with this outcome, as it does at least on the surface appear to support the case for a more socially oriented model of learning. One more small and possibly insignificant point is that group ‘A’ would seem to have double the amount of late assignment submissions.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Social Network Network Social 100