Wow,
What a huge four days. As I sit here at the end of it all I am torn between wanting to dump every idea in my head into words and going to bed and sleeping for a couple of days. I could prattle on about how good it was to put names to faces, the fact that we managed to put on a large conference which didn’t lose its relaxed feel (which was a big risk in my eyes which I think we managed to avoid), the quality of presenters such as David Jones, Michelle Moore and David Parkin, or for that matter the parallels between Parkin’s tirade on teamwork and its relevance (in my eyes) to social constructionism. I could also shower thanks on the delegates, co-workers, sponsors, co-workers, venue support staff and everyone else who helped make this Moot such a success.
I won’t bother doing any of this though, not because it isn’t important, but because this afternoon I think I had a moment where I realised the power of any community, and in particular the Moodle community which I feel proud to be a part of.
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Presentation two for the day at Moodlemoot AU 2010, this time on the future of Mahara and its integration with Moodle.
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Thanks to all those who came to my Moving to Moodle 2.0 presentation at the Australian Moodlemoot 2010 today, hopefully I kept to my word and just focused on a few specific elements rather than being a scattergun 
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As day one of the Moot draws to a close, I thought I’d comment on the length of the sessions, which have come in for a little flak in the backchannel discussions about being too short. Fair enough that some have found them too short, but I thought I’d explain the thinking behind it here in a short post.
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Today saw the Moodle Masterclass in Melbourne, the warm-up act for the 2010 Australian Moodlemoot. Having written up what the ideas were in my head a few months back, its now worth doing a little reflection on how it went.
Firstly, big kudos to both Dr Curtis Bonk and Julian Ridden, who both gave great presentations/demonstrations throughout the day – I asked quite a few people on the day how they felt about the session, and the response was uniformly positive, largely because of the ideas put forth by both of these excellent practitioners. Also thanks to Phil Marriott who was the driver behind the logistics, activities and the overall session structures, and to helper monkeys (along with me as chief helper monkey) Thalia, Bek and Tim.
Now enough thanks and more analysis.
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Its funny how you take some things for granted, and then when they vanish, even though you were never particularly fond of them you feel sad that they are no longer with you. I am feeling this way at the moment about the Moodle Navigation Tool, which has been around in Moodle 1.9 forever but has been replaced with the Navigation Block in Moodle 2.0.
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With ten sleeps left until the 2010 Australian Moodlemoot it may seem odd that I am posting a blog entry. The truth be known I’m only just starting to appreciate the phenomenal amount of work which needs to go into organising a physical (as distinct from virtual) conference for 450 people – but the good thing is that the presentations and workshop I’m delivering at the Moot have forced me to focus on doing some QA work on Moodle 2.0, as well as generally getting my head around some of the nuances of the changes in functionality. Read more…
Sometimes in life things go to plan. Other times they go completely to hell in a handbasket. The last few days have been a combination of the two in terms of my trip to London and my attendance at the UK Moot.
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Ok, duty of disclosure stuff first. A few weeks back I was asked by the folks at Packt Publishing to review the recently released Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios Beginner’s Guide, and in return they’d give me a copy of the book. Well, they kept their part of the bargain and so now I’ll keep mine.
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Last time I posted about assessment in Mahara it was using Mahara’s somewhat limited capacity to act as an assessment tool. I got no problem with this, since I agree that things like a Gradebook really belong in an LMS rather than in an ePortfolio, collaboration and social networking tool like Mahara.
But what if you need to do a more formal assessment in an LMS like Moodle?
A single sign-on integration between Moodle and Mahara is nothing new, and has already provided a basic integration between the two systems, but there has never been a neat way for students to submit a selection of work from their ePortfolio into Moodle for assessment beyond copying and pasting links between the two systems…
…until now.
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