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For the first time in quite a long while I have finally done a little bit of Moodle development gain. I love working with Moodle code and find it quite easy to manipulate. If you have a little coding skills under your belt I strongly recommend you head to the moodleDocs and start getting your [...]
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My recommendation is to use something external to moodle (like Mahara). Especially with the upcoming release of the Portfolio API in moodle 2.0, this will allow for better integration with external Portfolio’s
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Many teachers feel very restricted when it comes to course design. I often here complaints that the course layouts built into Moodle are too limiting. But did you know that there are a growing number of community created (contrib) course formats are available? In todays blog I want to highlight some of the better additions [...]
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What many teachers have yet to realise is that online games satisfy the basic requirements of learning environments and can provide engaging learning experiences for students
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Today I finally got around to installing Mahara, the new Open Source ePortfolio system from New Zealand on my server. What makes Mahara so special, well let me tell you.
To best summarise what Mahara is about in a succinct paragraph lets her it from Penny Leach, one of Mahara’s developers:
Mahara means to think, thought, reflection [...]
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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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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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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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