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I have just release my first block in a very long time, this one uses AJAX to populate Google search results into a block inside a course.
Now why would I want to do that you ask? I don’t want my students to have to leave the education site to go and complete searches for additional [...]
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OK, so podcasting has been around for quite some time now. These days they are available in both an audio and video format. I would be surprised in fact if any of you were not subscribed to at least one podcast by now. So todays post looks at how we can deploy your podcasts using [...]
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Any ICT Integrator using Moodle in Aus will be familiar with this issue. The Learning Federation (TLF from now in), a government agency, have been creating a series of Learning Objects. These now number in the hundreds and are becoming a valuable resource for any teacher. but how do we get these into Moodle?
In the [...]
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Today’s post is not Moodle related (for a change) but rather highlighting the constant miniaturization of technology and it’s ability to make me feel incredibly old when talking to students.
Now I have to admit that I m in fact only 32. I came just after the day of punchcards and into the early days of [...]
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I have come cross many educators who have different ideas of how their blended learning should be delivered online. Moodle is well known for being based on the pedagogy of social constructivism. The core idea of this being that the social group is constructing things for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared [...]
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ePortfolios have been round for a while now but interest in them has really exploded over the last 24 months. ePortfolio’s are more than just a repository. They are a place for reflection and their audience may vary from peers to mentors to teacher to external visitors with a wide range interests including possible [...]
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Filed under: Moodle, News, News, eLearning
The issue of Al Upton’s “Mini Legends” blog closure by DECS has been well followed on the edublogs. The total ability to understand what Al was doing with the technology by bureaucrats at higher level is by no mens new, but Al’s case has certainly highlighted the failings.
This morning Sue Waters posted an update [...]
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If you have not heard of VoiceThreads by now then chances are you have been hiding under a rock.
A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), [...]
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There has been a lot said about the editor that currently ships with Moodle. The editor is called HTMLArea and is another Open Source project. Sadly this project has officially been closed and no longer sees any real activity.
This has led to Moodle having an editor that does not work with many of the new [...]
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