http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/3-0&fd=R&url=http:/

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UMM News, Sports & Events

Workshop: Get Hooked on Technology UMM News, Sports & Events, MN - Jan 5, 2007 Presentations by your fishing guides include sessions on Moodle, Smart Classrooms, vodcasting and podcasting, collaborative Websites and more. ...

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I have just built an aggregator joining different sources of news about Moodle

The sources I have used are these ones:

1) From the main site ( http://moodle.org ):

• Official Moodle News
• General Using Moodle Community
• Conferences
• Security News
• Moodle Buzz (Articles about Moodle) 
• Business Uses
• Pedagogy 

2) Moodle Journal

3) Moodlebug

4) OpenLearn at the Open University

5) Sourceforge development site 

6) Google News about Moodle

7) MoodleZine (New!) 

If you want to get the news from the aggregator before this post, you can see them here. 

If you know any other news sources for Moodle having an RSS or Atom feed, please tell me about that adding comments to this post.

Enjoy Moodle! Cheers! :-) 

http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=648

UCLA switch to Moodle

Type: Web article

From: UCLA Office of Information Technology

Published: 31 December 2007

The University of California, LA (UCLA) has over 35,000 students and 3,000 faculty.

In November, 2006, the UCLA Faculty Committee on Educational Technology decided that UCLA should converge on Moodle as the single open source platform for its common collaboration and learning environment (CCLE). The decision includes a commitment to remain engaged with the higher education community as it builds solutions for interoperability and cross-system collaboration. UCLA intends to continue as a Sakai Foundation member and, as capacity is available, to work with others in the Sakai, Moodle, and IMS communities who are interested in working on data, tool, and language interoperability solutions.

The decision to converge on common solution is a response to faculty leadership in the articulation of a vision for improving the student learning and the faculty teaching and research collaboration experience. The selection process was accomplished through the significant effort of many staff and faculty who worked on the CCLE Technical and Functional Sponsor Groups and the CCLE Assessment Taskforce. This decision will now be carried through UCLA's IT governance process in order to build even broader campus consensus and to define a campus implementation strategy.

The decision to choose Moodle over Sakai as UCLA's convergence platform was based on many factors that, over time, led us to believe it to be a better match for UCLA's current needs. The decision to remain engaged with the Sakai community reflects our support for the Sakai vision and our desire to promote CMS interoperability solutions.

See the full publication

      

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http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/01/video-beats-audio-star.html

At the start of this term decided to try using my PDA to record parts of my lectures, and these recording are in range of 3 to 4 minutes. The particular course that I selected for this is my High Level Programming for level 4 students, and to date I have made about 40 recordings. But I thought I would tryout something of an experiment by making these recording available in two forms, one being a straightforward mp3, while the other would feature a speaking CrazyTalk avatar. Although the speech content of the two media are identical, the CrazyTalk avatar version has attracted almost twice the number of viewings!

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94&parent=285 by John Stone.  

This looks promising.

I am a member of a U3A group interesting itself in astronomy. "Studying" would be pitching us a bit strong, given our age profile, propensity to disappear on long holidays, interruptions for health reasons and our diversity of professional backgrounds. Currently, we do not have an energetic, dedicated leader - the last one died in harness. We're looking for material which can be presented/discussed at our once-a-fortnight meeting without pinning any one person down to continuous commitment or rigorous schedule.

We have been discussing keying in to the OU for some months, thinking a connection between OU and U3A to be an obvious idea, but this is our first inkling of such in the UK. Members have purchased OU material on their own account, but so far no-one has voluteered to interpret any for the Group. One concern has been copyright, as in copying and distributing the material to the group members.

I wait with interest the promised units on The Sun and The Evolving Universe, and, of course, any which follow of similar ilk.

Should these look useful to us, how would we stand regarding copyright and handing copies, or digests/summaries/adumbrations round at meetings?

J Stone

http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=662

http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=670

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94&parent=299

Well, according to the Terms and conditions the content provided by OpenLearn is made available under a Creative Commons License, meaning you are free to redistribute it subject to certain conditions, one being that it is used for only for noncommercial purposes.

Euan

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=63534&parent=28

Hi everyone,

There is a lot of exciting Moodle activity in California these days! I am looking forward to seeing some of you at the Moot in New Mexico. I will share what we are doing and hope to learn from all of you as well. If anyone has any specific questions ahead of time, let me know.

Cheers,
Kevin


Kevin Kelly
Online Teaching and Learning Coordinator
Academic Technology
San Francisco State University

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=63551&parent=28

Is there anyone else interested in Moodle attending the TESOL Arabia conference this year.  I read an article in the TESOL Arabia magazine by Jason M Ward introducing Moodle to the association.  Can we set at time on the second day of the conference March 16 to meet around lunch to discuss progress in the region.   I am scheduled to present a general overview on the MTC (Moodle Teacher Certification) at this conference.    I can be reached at abudhabiscorpion@gmail.com.

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94&parent=304

Euan's answer is correct. As long as it is not for commercial use, this is fine.

Regards

The OpenLearn Team

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=63257&parent=28

Further to my previous message, Jason is now looking at moving the UK MoodleMoot to the Autumn half-term break, which for most UK schools is covered by the period of October 22 to 26.

But still at the OU campus in Milton Keynes. This of course will mean that we have the use of the facilities again, but also that we won't be suffering from the incredibly hot conditions that greeted us last July! (As many of you no doubt know, sitting in a non-airconditioned room with 75 other people watching a presentation in the middle of a heatwave is no joke!). *And* that hopefully everyone will have been able to have their family holidays.

Keeping the Moot at the OU, and just moving the date, means that the costs can be kept down, and thus there should be no great increase in the registration fee. One possible alternative had the Moot at the International Conference Centre in Birmingham, which is a nice facility...but with the catering factored in, it would have put the individual registration fee up to probably well in excess of £200 per person, and then only if we got 300 delegates - it would have been more per person if we only got say 235 (which we had last year).

So, all you teachers, lecturers, professors, technicians, developers and administrators of Moodle out there - is the UK Autumn half-term break a good time? Let me know - or email / message Jason and let him know.

thanks

Sean K

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/01/learning-in-virtual-world.html