Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Interesting to see the inclusion of a wide range of Google education services including email, blogs and docs. Similar to our own deployment they are Moodle based, with implementations of Mahara and Turnitin , along with hosting and custom upgrades from ULCC.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 22, 2012

For my own part in the day I brought along the work that I had been conducting on eLearning, much publicised on this blog, but I did take the opportunity to promote Wimba Create, which I think went down very positively. If you have used the tool, please feel free to comment A blogging tool new to me anyway was Posterous.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 28, 2011

If you have been reading this blog and any others of a similar nature, then I guess it will go without saying that in answer to the post title, you most certainly are serious about eLearning.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

If you have been following this blog then you will know that the strategy focuses upon three principle ingredients of delivery framework, content and assessment. Following my rounds of staff meetings before the end of summer term last, I have this week started to get the training for elearning underway.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

and this is a discussion that has been going on for some time now and one that I came across originally back in 2007 in a blog posting from Donald Taylor. That's all now now, but do please stay in touch with this blog and of course feel free to comment. Is it time to drop the e from the term eLearning?

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Moodle Journal

JULY 17, 2016

Rather than repeat the details here, you can get a full blog from this link. My project Only Rocket Science was designed for my Level 4 and 5 students, and used the affordances of a virtual world to deliver a situated learning experience. That’s all for now, please feel free to comment

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Moodle Journal

DECEMBER 1, 2010

While posting this blog, I have actually moved on and am now waiting in Moodle chat for any students who may drop by requiring assistance with coursework. College closed early yesterday just after lunch and is closed completely today. I have just finished marking some HE test papers and uploaded the results into our Moodle vle.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 28, 2011

A little bit of cross posting between my blogs here but if you have use for a diagramming tool and not come across Creately yet, then I think it is well worth paying a visit to the site. There are a number of pricing models available, including a free version that has plenty of features.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 17, 2011

If you have been following this blog recently then you will no doubt have come across my Moodle trading level document that I posted on. A few years ago now, and it is a post somewhere on the blog, we managed to get DSpace up and running.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 28, 2011

I will be sure to blog on any decisions that come from that, so please stay in touch, and do post any experiences and use that you may have put the iPad to. Regards Barry

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 8, 2016

If you would like more details on the project and how it is going, then please follow this link to my Blog , but for now here are a couple of screen shots. Finally a quick update on the virtual laboratory that I am working on for the Bio Med team using OpenSim. Fig 2 That’s all for now and please feel free to comment

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Moodle Journal

JULY 1, 2014

? Following on from my experience of Mooc''s that I blogged on recently, I was more than pleased to discover that the college had been approach to join the QAA MOOC Network and even better that I was invited to be our representative, needless to say an offer that I agreed to with enthusiasm.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I recently posted a blog on some thoughts that I was having on the subject of fonts, which you may have read. Anyway on lighter note, today I found this amusing video on characterising fonts, amusement value good, follow this link and enjoy.

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

If you have been following this blog, then you will have read that last year marked the start of a new rollout strategy for our Moodle vle to staff at the college.

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Moodle Journal

APRIL 9, 2014

I see from the Poll I run on this blog ‘Which of Moodles features do you find most useful’ , Forums are the third most popular features of a vle, please feel free to comment.' So how about your own use of forums?

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Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

If you are reading this blog, then the chances are that you also actively produce eLearning content. That said there is the whole area, and I am not sure upon reflection that I give it the attention it deserves of accessibility.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 23, 2013

For my part I was presenting the work that I have been conducting using Augmented Reality with Aurasma; if you have not seen the JISC blog for this then please follow this link. I presented at the JISC eFactor2013 this week and naturally took the opportunity to get along to as many of the other parallel workshops that I could oj the day.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 1, 2011

If you have been a reader of this blog, then you will no doubt recall that I have been posting on the subject of mobile learning going way back, what I immediately liked about this publication was the 12 page introduction by John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 11, 2010

When I have my own project material complete, I shall be posting a copy onto this blog so you may like to stay in touch for that. The evaluation will be placed into our Moodle vle along with any supporting reference materials such as screen shots, how-to guides, videos etc. Kind regards Barry

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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 20, 2009

If you would like to know more, take a look at the video under the heading 'Web 2 on the tube' in the right sidebar of this blog. Comments welcome.

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Moodle Journal

JUNE 18, 2012

If you are interested our work using OpenSim then you may like to follow our BC OpenSim blog. This particular workshop must have been received well because I was approached by two members of staff after requesting an OpenSim Island for the coming year, brilliant.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 3, 2007

If you have been following this blog then you may recall the posting DSpace Content Repository - Tuesday, April 12, 2005 , where I reported that the system was now fully installed and rolled out for user access.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 26, 2012

As you will have read from other posts on this blog I am taking every opportunity to provide the widest expose possible for Wimba Create this academic year, so the second half is sorted. As for the first part of the session that has caused me some extra thought.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 9, 2009

If you are interested in knowing how they get on, then be sure to revisit this blog, as I will be making future postings for sure. Basically this is a free (up to 12 simultaneous users) chat facility with live web cams, a suggestion that definitely received the thumbs up, and naturally I am looking forward to reviewing their use and views.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If you have read this blog of recent then you will have seen that I am intending seizing the opportunity to push the use of our DSpace repository with a quick how-to guide. I was putting together the finishing touches to my new training notes on producing eLearning content today and came to the section on content repositories.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 8, 2012

Not so much about Moodle in this blog post, but of equal importance materials that you can use as part of your course.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 2, 2010

Forum Chat Glossaries Blogs RSS feeds Moodle quiz Creating a Quiz True or False Multiple choice Short answer Numerical Calculated Matching Random Short Answer Description Cloze (Embedded answers) Reviewing a quiz Any comments on your own experineces are welcome, regards Barry

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

If you would like to know how I get on, then please stay in touch with this blog and feel free to post your own comments. Following the completion of the exercise the students will then take an assessment in class based around the LAMS experience.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Should you be a regular reader of this blog, then you will no doubt have picked up that we have experienced a number of aspiring highs and avalanching lows in our attempts to deploy Scorm materials.

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 11, 2010

If you would like to know more about Edmodo then I recommend you take a look at their blog , and of course please feel free to reply to this posting if you have any views or experience of what looks could become a very useful and popular product.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 6, 2010

I am looking forward to this, and will be posting findings on this blog, so if you are interested then please keep in touch for that. 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. Bye for now best wishes Barry

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

On Monday I went along to the Ramada Hotel in the Bayswater Rd for an event that was titled “Motivating Learners using Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts”. The day was organised by Dice UK and the presenter was Adrian Jarratt.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 20, 2009

If you have read the previous blog posting, then you will have seen that in the session for Moodle training we had one of our members of staff, who is a Moodle user keen to tryout the Mahara ePortfolio for the first time.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 5, 2007

Going on as I do these days with regard to the value of social networking tools practices and the implications for collaboration in learning, which you may well have picked this up from a number of posts in this blog.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2009

If you would like a preview then take a look at this video , and please feel free to drop a reply to this blog with your own experiences. Add to this the fact that you can use freeform drawing tools and OneNote starts to look as if it could be a really useful package.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 23, 2006

I got into the conference from a French restaurant in Dartmouth via rather a weak wifi signal, in fact I am Blogging from here still. I hav e just looged out of the first Second Life conference for teachers, I think. Well done Optimus Paul.

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