Playing with Technology http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~Arthur C. Clarke Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 en What would be good additions to Moodle http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/28/what-would-be-good-additions-to-moodle/ http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/28/what-would-be-good-additions-to-moodle/#comments Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:09:38 +0000 Jon Breitenbucher Social Software woodle Teaching Software http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/28/what-would-be-good-additions-to-moodle/ After looking at some of the things on Solution Watch, I see a few that would be great additions to Moodle. The functionality of Gradefix, mynoteIT, NoteMesh, Diigo, Google Video, and Flickr added to Moodle would allow for some really cool pedagogical uses of Moodle. I’ll have to comb through Moodle.org and see if any of this is in the works.

]]> http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/28/what-would-be-good-additions-to-moodle/feed/ Moodle modules to try http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/17/moodle-modules-to-try/ http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/17/moodle-modules-to-try/#comments Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:45:00 +0000 Jon Breitenbucher woodle http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/17/moodle-modules-to-try/ Here is a list of Moodle modules/blocks I need to try.

  • My Files Block
  • Course Program Block
  • Course Menu Block
  • Gradebook Plus Module
  • Review Assignment Module
  • Feedback Module
  • Marginalia Module
  • Podcasting Module

Need to try these on the test server that Vince setup and see if they work with 1.6.

]]> http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/17/moodle-modules-to-try/feed/ iTunes U http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/10/itunes-u-2/ http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/10/itunes-u-2/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:27:39 +0000 Jon Breitenbucher Multimedia woodle Educause http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/10/itunes-u-2/ The iTunes U session shed some interesting light on the whole iTunes U model. First, the students will authenticate from our LDAP server and so their LDAP records will have to have a record of courses they are in and what priviledges they have for iTunes U content. This should be easier since we have authentication and course creation in woodle using LDAP. Second, we will have 500GB or .5TB of space for course content. This is a change from when it was first announced. Lastly, it should be easy to integrate with woodle because of our LDAP setup. It may require some cookie or session coding to avoiding having the student login to iTunes U if they are already in woodle, but the iTunes U engineers may be able to help with that or maybe a NITLE sponsored project can accomplish the integration. A pretty good bit of info.

]]> http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/10/10/itunes-u-2/feed/ woodle training http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/01/14/woodle-training/ http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/01/14/woodle-training/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:23:41 +0000 Jon Breitenbucher woodle http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/01/14/woodle-training/ In all the build-up to SSUG I forgot to post anything about woodle training held on Tuesday. At 1 on Tuesday we held training for the faculty using woodle this semester. We covered things like setting up the course, getting the syllabus into the course, and working with resources. I think the training was well received. All of the faculty have used some CMS in the past and so adapted rather quickly. We will be developing some docs, based on the experiences of this group, to use in our August training sessions. Right now we have two docs:

]]> http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2006/01/14/woodle-training/feed/ Suggestions for woodle http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2005/12/15/suggestions-for-woodle/ http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2005/12/15/suggestions-for-woodle/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:56:49 +0000 Jon Breitenbucher woodle http://jbreitenbuch.blogs.wooster.edu/2005/12/15/suggestions-for-woodle/ A few requests have been made for changes or additions to woodle:

  1. Reverse sort weeks
  2. Update Questionnaire module
  3. Allow upload of plain text files with no HTML filtering
  4. Allow assignments to be worth more than 100 points
  5. Allow two separate grade components (lecture and lab)

I will look into each of these and report back on what I find.

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