Comments for Join the dots http://www.markdrechsler.com Mark Drechsler's Blog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:14:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Moodle 2.0 and the Zombocalypse by SA Moodle Meetup 2010 | Brightcookie.com Educational Technologies http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=252&cpage=1#comment-1943 SA Moodle Meetup 2010 | Brightcookie.com Educational Technologies Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:14:48 +0000 http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=252#comment-1943 [...] Mark Dreschler from NetSpot pointed out later in the day that if people have made changes to core code, have a lot of plug-ins they rely upon, have not been rigorous about source code control repositories, don’t have access to a staging environment – there are going to be issues to overcome before courses can be rolled over to Moodle 2.  His list is here: http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=252 [...] [...] Mark Dreschler from NetSpot pointed out later in the day that if people have made changes to core code, have a lot of plug-ins they rely upon, have not been rigorous about source code control repositories, don’t have access to a staging environment – there are going to be issues to overcome before courses can be rolled over to Moodle 2.  His list is here: http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=252 [...]

]]> Comment on Mahara in Practice 2 – Mahara Assessment in Moodle by Adrian Rawlings http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=144&cpage=1#comment-1929 Adrian Rawlings Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:32:57 +0000 http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=144#comment-1929 Hi Mark I am supporting an RTO implementing Moodle and Mahara, but this also puts me on a steep learning curve just ahead of my client. I have to confess up front that I am still not convinced of e-learning and get to witness more bad than good examples of e-learning in practice. I have also had to save quite a few students who have been the victims of poorly exicuted e-learning. I thoroughly enjoyed your video tutorial and look forward to looking at more of your work. Please continue the excellent work. Hi Mark
I am supporting an RTO implementing Moodle and Mahara, but this also puts me on a steep learning curve just ahead of my client. I have to confess up front that I am still not convinced of e-learning and get to witness more bad than good examples of e-learning in practice. I have also had to save quite a few students who have been the victims of poorly exicuted e-learning.

I thoroughly enjoyed your video tutorial and look forward to looking at more of your work. Please continue the excellent work.

]]> Comment on Moodle 2.0 file management by mark.drechsler http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=234&cpage=1#comment-1911 mark.drechsler Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:34:17 +0000 http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=234#comment-1911 Bugga, There goes that one - so its still not really acting in the way I hoped it would. This would be another good comment to make in the Tracker about the expected vs actual behaviour - if you're willing that is :) Thanks for the post, Mark. Bugga,

There goes that one – so its still not really acting in the way I hoped it would.

This would be another good comment to make in the Tracker about the expected vs actual behaviour – if you’re willing that is :)

Thanks for the post,

Mark.

]]> Comment on Moodle 2.0 file management by Steve http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=234&cpage=1#comment-1910 Steve Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:48:05 +0000 http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=234#comment-1910 Hi Mark, Tried the workaround but (as I'm sure you know by now) this method copies the files from your original folder against each individual resource. Therefore, you can't simply go back into the original folder and update the file and have the update flow across to your subsequent resources. It's a copy, not a link. Still looking for a satisfactory work-around... :-( Hi Mark,

Tried the workaround but (as I’m sure you know by now) this method copies the files from your original folder against each individual resource. Therefore, you can’t simply go back into the original folder and update the file and have the update flow across to your subsequent resources.

It’s a copy, not a link.

Still looking for a satisfactory work-around… :-(

]]> Comment on Mahara – The Next Generation by Yuliya http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=230&cpage=1#comment-1908 Yuliya Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:29:07 +0000 http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=230#comment-1908 Hi Mark, Topic of Moodle/Mahara integration is very interesting for me as I'm using these systems in my PhD project. I was looking at your presentation today and would like to ask some questions. Do you have any other contacts except for your LinkedIn 'contact me' link? Thank you! Yuliya Hi Mark,

Topic of Moodle/Mahara integration is very interesting for me as I’m using these systems in my PhD project. I was looking at your presentation today and would like to ask some questions. Do you have any other contacts except for your LinkedIn ‘contact me’ link?

Thank you!

Yuliya

]]> Comment on Moodle 2.0 and the Zombocalypse by mark.drechsler http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=252&cpage=1#comment-1875 mark.drechsler Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:05:59 +0000 http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=252#comment-1875 Fantastic news Tim - I knew I'd heard Julian mention it but I didn't realise Petr was maintaining it. Also look forward to hearing more from OU about how the migration is progressing. Fantastic news Tim – I knew I’d heard Julian mention it but I didn’t realise Petr was maintaining it. Also look forward to hearing more from OU about how the migration is progressing.

]]> Comment on Moodle 2.0 and the Zombocalypse by Tim Hunt http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=252&cpage=1#comment-1871 Tim Hunt Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:26:37 +0000 http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=252#comment-1871 Book module is maintained by Petr Skoda, who is working on a Moodle 2.0 version between trying to get the main Moodle 2.0 release done. The OU is looking to move to Moodle 2.0 in about a year's time, so our plugins will all up updated by then, but probably sooner than that. Book module is maintained by Petr Skoda, who is working on a Moodle 2.0 version between trying to get the main Moodle 2.0 release done.

The OU is looking to move to Moodle 2.0 in about a year’s time, so our plugins will all up updated by then, but probably sooner than that.

]]> Comment on Moodle 2.0 file management by mark.drechsler http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=234&cpage=1#comment-1832 mark.drechsler Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:28:48 +0000 http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=234#comment-1832 Hi Miriam, While I don't disagree with your feelings about the current clunkiness of the Files interface, I guess I'd encourage people such as yourself who are obviously very experienced and knowledgeable members of the Moodle community to follow the great examples of people like <a href="http://www.moodleblog.org/?page_id=19" rel="nofollow">Mary Cooch</a> and <a href="http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=154880" rel="nofollow">Davo Smith</a> in suggesting ideas for how to improve the current interface rather than just panning it. The tracker item for discussing improvements is <a href="http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-23306" rel="nofollow">here</a>, get in there and suggest a way to make it usable without returning to the 'bad old days' of information silos in 1.9. Mark. Hi Miriam,

While I don’t disagree with your feelings about the current clunkiness of the Files interface, I guess I’d encourage people such as yourself who are obviously very experienced and knowledgeable members of the Moodle community to follow the great examples of people like Mary Cooch and Davo Smith in suggesting ideas for how to improve the current interface rather than just panning it. The tracker item for discussing improvements is here, get in there and suggest a way to make it usable without returning to the ‘bad old days’ of information silos in 1.9.

Mark.

]]> Comment on Moodle 2.0 file management by Miriam http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=234&cpage=1#comment-1829 Miriam Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:03:54 +0000 http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=234#comment-1829 Thanks for this post. I'm finding the files system (or lack of) rather frustrating myself. Yes, I understand the desire to move away from a files repository, but with how it is RIGHT NOW, teachers are not going to be able to FIND the files that they want to access from other courses, which defeats the purpose, doesn't it? "I have that file on Moodle already, you can just link to that one..." "Cool, where is it?" "Wouldn't have a clue!" Seriously. Thanks for this post. I’m finding the files system (or lack of) rather frustrating myself. Yes, I understand the desire to move away from a files repository, but with how it is RIGHT NOW, teachers are not going to be able to FIND the files that they want to access from other courses, which defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?

“I have that file on Moodle already, you can just link to that one…”
“Cool, where is it?”
“Wouldn’t have a clue!”

Seriously.

]]> Comment on Mahara in Practice 1 – Groups and Assessment by mark.drechsler http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=112&cpage=1#comment-1725 mark.drechsler Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:29:19 +0000 http://www.markdrechsler.com/?p=112#comment-1725 Hi Ann, In a word - no. The focus of Mahara is quite different from Moodle and is based around openness and social networking, so users are free to search for and find other users within Mahara, their membership to any groups is irrelevant. There has been talk of setting up a 'walled garden' concept in Mahara, (search for that term in mahara.org if you want to find out from the source) which aims to segregate users belonging to different institutions in Mahara, which would be the case if you had people connecting from two different Moodle sites for example, but this is about as close as you'll get as far as I know. Hope this helps, Mark. Hi Ann,

In a word – no. The focus of Mahara is quite different from Moodle and is based around openness and social networking, so users are free to search for and find other users within Mahara, their membership to any groups is irrelevant.

There has been talk of setting up a ‘walled garden’ concept in Mahara, (search for that term in mahara.org if you want to find out from the source) which aims to segregate users belonging to different institutions in Mahara, which would be the case if you had people connecting from two different Moodle sites for example, but this is about as close as you’ll get as far as I know.

Hope this helps,

Mark.

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