Moodleposium presentations and wrap up
I was lucky enough to get asked to present at this week’s Moodleposium in Canberra, so I thought I’d post my presentations here oif people are interested. Was great to meet a stack of new people and see so much interest in Moodle in the Higher Education sector.
Thanks to all who attended, I’d love to get some feedback (good or bad) about the presentations for anyone who was there.
Web 2.0 tools and techniques
The first presentation related to some of the Web 2.0 tools in Moodle and how they can be supplemented either by integrated or completely separate tools. This presentation was a pair fed into Meg Poore’s talk on risk management for Web 2.0 – was great to get a chance to bounce ideas around with someone of Meg’s calibre in the world of emerging technologies.
Unmoodling your Moodle
Although Moodle’s flat structure suits many course developers, the new Moodler can find themselves stuck with a long, unwieldy course. This presentation shows some tips and tricks to avoid the Scroll of Death.
Thanks for all your contributions, Mark, much appreciated. FYI, have added links to the slides from http://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodleposium/2009/Day_2 These slides are very helpful since I missed most of your sessions. What I don’t get is why a cure for the scroll of death isn’t scheduled for Moodle 2.0? The same ability as for the user-togglable sideboxes is needed for the centre column sections. Have posted to the moodle.org Usability forum about this: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=132184
Hi James,
Thanks for the feedback, was good to (briefly) catch up with you at the Posium.
I think (and its only my personal thoughts) that the reason more effort hasn’t been put into this for core code is because of the ability to create custom course formats (like accordion and flexpage for example). The problem is that even though there have been a few of these formats created, they don’t seem to have enough traction in the community to make it back into core. That’s just a semi-informed opinion though – maybe you’ll get some better feedback from the post on the usability forum – fingers crossed!
Mark.