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 been a while since the last unofficial Moodlemoot update so I thought I’d round out the week by giving another glimpse into how the planning for the largest Moot in the Southern Hemisphere (we think) is going.
With ten weeks to go, we now have a draft program for the Australian Moodle Moot being held in Melbourne. Having been stranded in the UK under a cloud of volcanic ash I haven’t had much time to be involved with the program, so when it was released today it struck me at how many interesting presentations there should be, and many thanks to all of those who have submitted presentation abstracts – I think the content of this Moot will be ‘top shelf’ in terms of what will be on show.
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Eyjafjallajokull doing its best to teach us how small we are
Eyjafjallajokull – a name I still can’t pronounce, even though it has changed the way I view air travel forever. I’m calling it ‘the day the world got big again’, since all of a sudden it made me realise ust how much we take air travel for granted, and how damned far it is from the UK to Australia. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been stuck in the UK after what was a fairly disastrous attempt at attending the UK Moodlemoot last week thanks to the plumes of volcanic ash which shut down UK airspace for the best part of a week. As soon as the reality hit that my flights home had been cancelled I started the frantic task of working out how to get home – along with another 150 000 stranded tourists…
Regardless of whether I sat tight and hoped that the ash cleared or attempted to head down to Madrid by train and catch a flight from there one thing was clear to me – I’d need to submit an insurance claim at some stage to get back all the significant amount of additional money I was spending to get by as I tried to find a way home. When I first phoned up the folks at Travel Insurance Direct (who I must say have been awesome throughout this whole thing), they made two things very clear – that I needed to make ‘reasonable efforts’ to keep the costs down, and that I should keep as much evidence as possible to back up the claim when the time came. I started grabbing the receipts I’d already incurred and tried to work out how I should keep them all together, and I realised that I already had what in theory should have been the perfect answer right in front of me – Mahara.
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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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