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Recently I discovered the “Human” Blog created by Tomaz Lasic and have very quickly become a fan of his work. He is an avid Moodler who is not just using moodle in his own classroom but also has also demonstrated and proven the tool to many of his collegues as well.
Tomaz is a teacher and [...]
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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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Often I am reminded of the reason why I chose Moodle as my LMS platform. It was not the rich feature list, it’s usability or component based architecture that allows easy expansion (although they all may have had some impact). No, it was the impact it has when directed by teachers who are keen to [...]
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Tonight is the second meeting of the Sydney Moodle Users Group. This group is a must for any administrators, teachers or educational facilitators who use Moodle or who are maybe evaluating Moodle as possible LMS.
The User group consists of passionate Sydney based Moodle users who are keen on sharing their experiences and knowledge with [...]
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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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I have had quite a few schools and clients of mine lameting the fact that Moodle no longer supports anything but LAMS 1.0, a now extremely outdated version. I also had accepted this as fact and had moved on. But how wrong I was!
At last weekends OLPC Techfest held at my college I randomly ran [...]
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Today I discovered this great video that really describes the challenges of educating todays students in a nutshell. I found it both educational and inspirational. Hope you do to.
This was posted by Greg Whitby who is the Executive Director of Schools for the Parramatta Catholic Education Office and has extensive experience in K-12 schooling and [...]
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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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