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Ireland & UK Moodlemoot 2012, April 2-4 programme and the book of abstracts

Submitted by ghenrick

on March 16th, 2012 at 11:51:38 AM

With just over twoweeks to go to the Ireland & UK Moodlemoot in Dublin, the programme and the book of abstracts of accepted presentations are available!

There is nearly 70 presentations in total throughout the three days, on a variety of topics which are covered by the following topics:

Moodle 2
Implementing & Developing Moodle
Teaching & Learning with Moodle
Academic takeup of Moodle
Student

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Ireland & UK Moodlemoot Dublin April 2-4 - Registrations are open

Submitted by ghenrick

on January 21st, 2012 at 10:46:00 AM

Registrations opened today for the combined Ireland & UK Moodlemoot 2012. The Moot is being ran in partnership with Dublin City University one of the earliest Moodle adopters in Ireland. The Moodlemoot will be held in Dublin on April 2nd-4th, at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Northwood which is near Dublin airport. The Moot schedule is as follows:

Monday April 2nd: Pre-Conference Workshops
Tuesday April

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Moodle 2 and IMS LTI

Submitted by ghenrick

on January 14th, 2012 at 9:20:22 PM

In the past month I added two blog posts to http://www.somerandomthoughts.com about IMS LTI.

The first discussed the new external tool activity that is available in Moodle 2.2, which enables Moodle to connect to a 3rd party IMS LTI compliant activity/site such as a suitably configured wordpress MU or mediawiki. This post is available here

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Moodle 2.2 – a Preview

Submitted by ghenrick

on November 29th, 2011 at 11:48:36 PM

With Moodle 2.2 due out very soon, I added a review on my blog of the features we are going to get in the release.

"This release combines a range minor tweaks improvements, bug fixes, and some significant improvements specifically in some of the underlying system. The current draft release notes for Moodle 2.2 can be found here – http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.2_release_notes."

For the full

Moodle 2

moodle

Preview

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11 Books on Moodle 2

Submitted by ghenrick

on November 19th, 2011 at 4:08:40 PM

Moodle 2.0 has been out now since November 25th 2010, yes its been a year already!

So here is the list of books, and a short comment about each with some links to reviews.

Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide by Jason Cole, Jeanne Cole, and Gavin Henrick (me)
"It’s refreshingly different from the other Moodle books in that its focus is not on students in an educational institution