http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/10/rise-of-networker.html

What is that can make one years group of students so different from another, you have no doubt asked yourself this question and so do I, and this year is no exception. If you have been following this blog, then you will have picked up on the Social Networking exercise I devised for my 06/07 group as an icebreaker, that would eventually serve as a means of comparing final outcome. Well I ran the same exercise this year 07/08 and have finally got around to looking at the figures for September; this is the month on which outcomes will be compared. To my amazement the number of Forum postings has increased nine fold on the previous year! That’s right 900%. I have no explanation for such an unprecedented increase, the opportunity was presented to them in exactly the same way, no mention made on likely impact for outcome. Can it simply be an early indicator of the growing perception and influence that Social Networking is having on our expectations for life style, as we come to increasingly live in an online world? Comments welcome.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/08/social-networking-outcomes.html

If you had read my previous bog to this, where I presented two Social Networking diagrams, produced from the Sociomatrix data processed by Agna, then you will no doubt have been having some thoughts about the likely final outcome for the two groups. If you recall group ‘A’ displayed a very low level of social activity and group ‘B’ a far more impressive set of connections. Well here are the results.



Of course it is not possible to draw any firm conclusions from a single trial, more are needed and more will now take place, but certainly the outcome even to a casual observer produces a clear enough impression. The less well-connected group ‘A’, have between them achieved results that are skewed toward Pass and Merit, while the more active network of group ‘B’ displays a skew toward Merit and Distinction. I must say that I was more than pleased with this outcome, as it does at least on the surface appear to support the case for a more socially oriented model of learning.


One more small and possibly insignificant point is that group ‘A’ would seem to have double the amount of late assignment submissions.

You will no doubt have guessed that I have been keenly showing these results to just about anyone that will listen, and the response I must say has been very positive. Apart that is from one senior manager, who will of course remain nameless. But who pointed out somewhat reasonably, that had the outcomes for the two groups been reversed, then we might have been able to build a case for blocking access to all these Social Networking sites! And what if any are the intrinsic suggestions here I wonder, that entertainment wins out against education, perish the though.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/08/thoughts-on-social-nerworking.h

Going on as I do these days with regard to the value of social networking tools practices and the implications for collaboration in learning, which you may well have picked this up from a number of posts in this blog. As its summer now and there are no classes, its given me time to start thinking about trying to see if I can extract anything at all meaningful from the exercise that I encouraged my year 1 level 3 students to carry out at the start of their course in September 06. In fact I did a couple of blogs on this which you can still get to from here and to save repeating myself they are:-

Tell And Post, Thursday, September 14, 2006

Social Networking So Far, Sunday, September 24, 2006


Essentially the idea was to start them off by using Moodle as a social tool and see if this had any impact of the likely emergence of online groups and ultimately outcomes. Just recently, during the summer, I have been dipping into SNA (Social Network Analysis) this is a methodology for mapping and measuring relationships and flows in a system; this can be human or even data itself. Now being a software person, my first reaction was to go looking for some tools, free ones anyway and I found Agna, a superb little piece of Java freeware. I used Moodle reports to produce a student-by-student activity for the Social forums throughout September 06. Then using their names, though for this exercise I have replaced these with numbers, as the node values in the Sociomatrix; see below.

For this simple Binary exercise I simply recorded a 1 at the intersection of contact between two students.

I carried out the exercise for two groups, who I shall simply refer to as A and B

My next stage was to use the Agna Network Viewer to produce charts.

I shall let you make up you own mind on the level of social networking taking place here, but just establish for you that the arrows indicate the direction of communication.
Well what do you think? Is any of this likely to influence outcomes for later on the course? I will reveal all a week today, on Sunday 12th August.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/08/so-long-intranet-welcome-dsace.

This week thanks to some major groundbreaking efforts from my fellow Moodle VLE administrator Clive, we now have our DSpace content repository accessible through common authentication with Windows Active Directory via Free Radius server. If you have been following this blog then you may recall the posting
DSpace Content Repository - Tuesday, April 12, 2005, where I reported that the system was now fully installed and rolled out for user access. Well to be honest, that turned out to be somewhat optimistic, because apart from myself, Clive and couple of other brave souls, not very much has been happening. But now that can all change, because through Clive's efforts this week not only can we offer users a common Windows Network, Moodle, DSpace login; you may like to keep up with his blog on all this. DSpace will now only allow authenticated users to access the actual content, in other words, the Meta Data is visible and will continue to be Harvested by OAIster, but only Bromley College staff and or Students can access the content. This of course overcomes one of the major concerns from staff, that their material will be open to all, regardless of Copyright or IPR. Naturally the next big bonus is that DSpace resource are now available from within Moodle; you just have to login in once at the start of your session. So goodbye to dupliacted Moodle resources, network drives, incomprehensible folder structures and ground fills of orphaned documents, from now on may DSpace and Meta Data rule.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/07/handouts-to-videos.html

Well its that time of year again when following the upgrade of Moodle to our test server and tried out all the features that I need to star thinking about updating the Moodle course notes for the new version. This usually means I check each page of the notes with the new version and apply changes as they occur. This year however I have decided to reduce the actual Moodle training notes in their printed form and deliver the rest as a series of short video clips that can be run on demand by users as and when they need them. The impact of this will be to reduce the time needed for initial training, while at the same time ensuring that during the training, which does tend to be a bit hectic, given I only get 2 hours, I can spend more time looking at specific curricula issues rather than Moodle features that I have come to realise many will not come to use. So how do I intend to breakdown the content into printed and video formats?

Printed format

• System settings and administration
  
• Labels and headings
  
• Editing facilities
  
• Managing files and folders
  
• Linking to resources
  
• Moodle Assignments
  
• Course presentation
  

Video Format

• Using Forums
  
• Using Chat
  
• Creating Glossaries in Moodle
  
• Managing the calendar events
  

Once I have these completed these I will make them available through this blog, so feel free to give them a test-drive and get back to me with any comments.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/06/one-more-for-constructivist.htm

For those of you who have been following this blog, you will recall that last academic year 05/06 I ran a trial with my HND Computer Systems Engineering students where I used the VLE to investigate the delivery of about 20% of the course material based around the Social Constructivist model. The particular framework that I chose for this was the ‘Community of Enquiry’ from Garrison, Anderson and Archer. Well as I said then, results looked promising but it needed more data and so here are the results from this years trail 06/07 for both percentages and grades as measured against 2002-2005. I think you will agree that it does look more than encouraging and I shall be featuring these outcomes in my Camel presentation at the college on the 2nd of July this year.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/06/self-evaluation.html

If like myself you are deploying much of your full time course delivery over Moodle , then you will no doubt also be realising that while there are many advantages to this for everyone regarding administration, are there any similar enhancement to outcomes? Well I have to say probably not, after all, good teaching, good notes and resources are exactly that whatever the medium you deliver them by. If you have been reading this blog then you will know that I have been trialing methodologoes such a 'Communities of Enquiry', with some success. Even so I still find myself trawling round for some realistic model for self evaluation, and thats when I came across this article that I find myself getting somewaht enthusiastic about. Of course the test is going to be can I implement this through Moodle in some way, well stay tuned for that one.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/06/video-formats-and-storage.html

I received a request recently from a client to produce my Moodle training resources as a set of video files, which does make a lot of sense; I have also been using more video this year on the VLE. If you are finding this emerging trend, then you may like to have a look at a couple of resources for video conversion and storage. At the Yasasoft website you can download a limited free version, it will convert just about all format up to five minutes and its a really nice and easy to use piece of desktop software. I also came across a reasonable online media converter the other day at vixy.net, which seems to be worth having a look at. Of course with video comes the need for storage, and if yours I limited, then why not try storing it with blip.tv, they seem to be making an open invitation.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/05/thinking-about-your-vle.html

If like us here at Bromley College you have been deploying a VLE, then like me you may be wondering after having structured courses with all kinds of content from Word files to podcasts, where the technology is moving and what the outcomes have been. If you are thinking along these lines, then you will be interested in the findings of the JISC funded projects that are about to enter their second phase, you can find the site here. I read a summary in the May 2007 edition of Cilip Update, which seemed to promote the conclusion of student preference for social networking over pure VLE, with the suggestion that educators are becoming concerned about the future of the traditional VLE. For my part I have no real evidence that this is the case, have you, please feel free to post.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/03/vles-and-poor-attendance.html

I was surprised by the concerns expressed in the recent HE Forum about VLE’s leading to reduced attendance. And so an emailed was circulated to a national list, not by myself I must add, to see if this is generally seen as a problem. The responses indicate the opposite. You will find a link here to some of the responses that you may find useful. The question posted was:- Using a VLE might lead to a reduction in attendance. Does anybody on the list have to deal with this worry? Is it true? How do you counter it? Please feel free to inform us of your own views on this subject by replying to this post.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/03/project-leon.html

Starting Monday 12th March ULCC are running London's first Online Conference looking at Web2 Technologies supporting 'personalisation' called LEON (London e-Learning Online Network). There are a number of strands to this project,and my own here at Bromley is looking to the potential of Second Life, where students can share a 3D space and presence in real time. The current project features a library with access for individual or group study, links to web sites, pod casts, movies, documents and virtual page turning books. Presentations and lectures can be delivered to groups or individuals using white boards, media players all delivered by the lecturer. The potential improvements for social engagement above that offered by the more usual first world experience of synchronous, asynchronous chat and forum seem boundless. If you are interested in joining us the go to the website and contact Philip Butler for enrollment details.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/03/vle-project-2-completed.html

Going by the transactions from the latest learning trial using Moodle, here at Bromley I feel certain that I will be looking at another successful outcome. There were 23 students taking part of which only 16 eventually completed the project and between them accounted for over 12,000 transactions in four weeks. For all those who did manage to stay the course, I presented feedback assessment for collaboration, and there is without doubt overwhelming support from them as well as a sense of achievement. However for students who’s engagement / attendance proved patchy before the project, the new approach seemed to be of little positive influence.

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

Just lately a lot of my time has been taken up with Second Life, if you have yet to try virtual worlds then let me recommend the experience. My principle reason for the whole venture is to see how this new semi-immersed virtual reality can be utilised for teaching and learning, even as an extension to our continuing work with Moodle. On Saturday 17th of Feb at 5pm I will begin hosting some presentation trials that will be looking at the Linden Script, that’s the language in SL, and comparing it with other main stream computer languages. So if you are free around that time and would like to come over for a short and small class and supply us with some feedback in another reality just click here and I will look forward to seeing you.

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://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-moodle-to-deliver-self-fi

I am hopeful that Moodle here at bromley College will begin to fulfil a commercial role following an enquiry the other day from company who required a course in Website Design for one of their employees. I have been running a very successful self financing course “HTML and JavaScript for Website Designers” for some time now, however it does require a minimum of 12 students to be viable, with the next one likely to start in January. This timescale was however too long, and I was asked if it could be run as a distance learning package, well maybe if I ran it through Moodle. As this will effectively be a trial, I have given the course for free in return for a comprehensive feedback and review. In fact when the boss came along to lookover the set-up, he signed himself up as well. The course can now run at the pace of the students, they will provide me feedback via the Journal, have access to resources using Block Folders, submit completed exercises as Assignments and keep in touch using Forums and Chat. Hey I may even be able to use Second-Life!!! I’ll let you know how it goes.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/11/podcast-or-videocast-which-do-y

Do you podcast you lectures? . I have started this in a small way but from the system logs the results were not encouraging. Anyway I started to give the whole idea some serious thought recently. From my own perspective, if am driving or travelling on public transport, then yes I would listen to a podcast, however if was sat in front of a computer, then I would appreciate something more visual. The feasibility of videoing and editing a whole lecture on a regular basis would for me be unrealistic. But do you really need the whole lecture, well no, and all I record usually are selected parts in audio using my PDA. Anyway I decided to pop one of my audio tracks into one of CrazyTalks avatars, the result, good, judging from the Moodle logs, the media is definitely getting a better response. If you would like to take a look just click here. Please feel free to feedback on your own experiences by posting to this blog.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/11/free-learning-resources-from-ou

free and open educational resources
If like myself you are always on the lookout for some quality e-Learning materials, then you simply have to take a look at the Open Universities Moodle site OpenLearn. The resources here are free to use and are of an excellent quality, well done OU.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/11/time-for-second-life.html

Just recently I decided that the time had come to put my money where my enthusiasm was, so I upgraded my membership in Second Life and bought some land and see how it could be used in conjunction with my work on Moodle. In fact I bought a small island from diddster.com, these are really nice properties and the company extremely helpful. In fact the whole experience was a bit surreal, as I had to leave my wife cruising around Diddsters Daydream island complex, made more stressful for her as she had not used Second life before, looking for a vacant plot and making the purchase. While all this was happening I was watching through a colleague’s avatar at work (Whoops), keep that bit to yourself. Anyway Jinxster of Diddster turned up and gave some very timely advice and we all had an extremely useful three way conversation. I have since acquired a building for my island (Shimmer Island) and begun accumulating some tools; whiteboard and media player, both of which were actually free. If you click on my island thumb nail at the top of this post, you will get a bigger picture.
Anyway I am off to my alternative reality now, but do stay tuned to see how things go.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/11/value-added-moodle.html

Keen as I always am to make use of our vle for course delivery, I am also very keen to find evidence on its effectiveness with regard to student outcomes. One of the courses that see particularly heavy use of the vle here at Bromley is my BTEC National Software Development. Just the other day I am informed that it has attracted highest Value Added in the country for this course, wow. How much of that is due to the vle, difficult to say, but I was asked to put my views in writing; 50 words! Anyway here is my response. We have an experienced subject specialist team delivering a wide range of software technologies that include VBA, VB6, C, Java, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP and SQL, and find attracts motivated students with an ambition for Software Development.
Our adoption and increasing use of the Moodle vle has further allowed us to explore a variety of teaching methods, that facilitate our students the opportunity for personalisation, to extend their learning beyond the traditional physical boundaries and time constraints of class based lectures.A bit Just a tad more that 50.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/10/second-life-from-dartmouth.html

I have just looged out of the first Second Life conference for teachers, I think. I got into the conference from a French restaurant in Dartmouth via rather a weak wifi signal, in fact I am Blogging from here still. There were plenty of people and some interesting proposals for future projects, its all looking extremely promising, all in all a great show. Well done Optimus Paul.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-for-educators.html

This week, I guess with no great surprise, I find that those people at Google, who no doubt have been keeping a watchful eye on our surfing habits, have made an encouraging response by launching Google for Educators. My first impression is that this has the makings of a powerful and valuable resource that already features a growing repository of materials, tools, ideas and stories. I was particularly taken by the invitation that we can upload video clips, a timely offer, given that I have spoken to a few people recently who are showing some concern as to where they can place such materials given the limits that seem to exist for storage in some institutes.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/09/social-networking-so-far.html

I have some satisfaction and surprises reviewing the way in which my plans for introducing a social networking forum are working out with the courses this year. I have given the rounded figures in the table.

A couple of points come to mind for me: 1 by far the most active group is the BTEC National General, but this is a year 2 group, so they already know each other well by now. 2 Though the HND group seem to have shown more activity than the BTEC National Software, in fact less then half, 9/23, of the HND have yet to actually post their own details, does age make you more cautious in these forums?

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/09/podcasting.html

Last week I decided to start using a podcast approach as part of my regular Moodle material. I have incorporated these as part of my level 4 groups work in Object Oriented Design. The course is delivered as a series of lectures accompanied by detailed course notes and assessed using a portfolio approach of exercises. It’s the presentation in class of these exercises that I have decided to make available as mp3’s. I have installed them all into their own folder and students access them through Moodles Add a resource/Display a directory feature. I decided against the usually highly mobile podcast approach, as I know very few of the students actually own one. I shall be sure to report on their popularity and utility in due course

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/09/tell-and-post.html

I started three new level 3 groups today and as a first exercise decided they should begin to make use of Moodle by posting lifestyle styles and ambitions to a forum. Postings could include links, particularly if they had Myspace, some did. I then asked them to reply to at least 2 postings, but not if they were already friends; I encourage this in support of the need to establish a virtual presence, after all given the diminishing requirement of funding bodies, students are only actually at College 2.5 days a week, so what happens the rest of the week? Well maybe it can be virtual, lets shall see. A significant proportion of postings were as I anticipated in youth code; medium is the message! I am reassured however given recent finding by Bev Plester and Claire Wood at Coventry Uni. Its early days but be assured I shall be collecting and posting feedback from the groups on these and other online activities.

http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/09/myspace-induction.html

The HND course officially started today with an induction. I had an hour to present myself and courses to them. This year has been really different though rather than explain courses in detail with references to handouts, assignments and grading, I talked almost exclusively about the part Moodle would play as a delivery platform in support of the collaborative leaning framework and assessment strategies that proved successful in last year’s trial. Upon ending the presentation rather than give out advice on pre-start of courses reading, I asked them to get a Myspace account, fill out all the categories and be sure to post comments to at least two from others. My plans are that the Social networking aspects of Myspace will not only form the first point for an ongoing trend of collaboration but be the foundation in forming an online presence and identity.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=84862&parent=37

by Abdul Ally.  

I would like to attend this conference too. I suppport teachers at Prairie South School Division on how to use Moodle, we have just started. Where can I register for this conference?

Mr. Ally

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by Todd Phillips.  

Mr. Ally,

We are trying to organize this now, So your interest is good. We want to host a Moodle experience close enough that we can have several of our faculty and staff attend. Were is Prairie South? I will keep you informed of our progress.

Todd

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by Carla Beard.  

More than a hundred schools in Indiana use Moodle, and I would be interested in attending either one of these two possibilities, although the one in St. Louis is closer.

Please consider the date of NECC when you plan the Moodle Moots: June 29-July 2.

Thanks!

Carla Beard

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by Floyd Saner.  

Todd,
I am interested in a St. Louis Moodle moot. May or June works for me.

As Carla Beard mentioned, many schools (both higher ed and k-12) in Indiana use Moodle or are considering Moodle. We've used Blackboard for many years and are at the end of a Moodle evaluation. It is 95%+ certain we will make the switch. I would be interested in giving a presentation on our process and the outcome. Our systems administrator may be interested in giving a presentation on Moodle installation and maintenance. He and I gave a presentation at a conference in Chicago a year ago.

I attended the moot north of Boston a couple summers ago. Martin Dougiamas was there - perhaps he would attend the St. Louis moot.

Keep us posted.
Floyd

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Floyd E. Saner, Ph.D.
Director Of Instructional Technology and
Professor of Computer Science
Goshen College
1700 S Main St
Goshen IN 46526

Phone: 574-535-7404
Email: fesaner@goshen.edu
Webpage: www.goshen.edu/~fesaner/
Fax: 574-535-7509

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=762357

We've been using Sourceforge as our CVS repository for about 5 years. Thanks so much, Sourceforge, for all your support!

However, we've outgrown it and just this week moved to our own dedicated CVS server which gives us more speed and more control. We're migrating developers gradually: if anybody still has troubles accessing the new server please contact moodle.com. (0 comments)

http://moodle.org

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by Giannina Rossini.  

After the great success of Daniel Livingstone's Sloodle presentation at the UK Moodle Moot in October, it was decided to follow up the great response and enthusiasm with a virtual version of a Moot.

Weeks of background work and word of mouth promotion later, we are finally ready to announce the event officially:

Come and join us for the very first Sloodle Moot on the 18th/19th January!

We have a full day of sessions, demos and activities surrounding teaching and learning in virtual environments planned for you.

Whether you are new to Second Life and/or Sloodle or whether you are a long standing Second Life resident already, this event will have something on offer for you:

Find out about Sloodle, how it works and what it can do for you as a teacher, student or educational techie. Take part in demo sessions of the various tools and find out how other educators are already using them.

Ask those who are using Second Life for teaching about how they got to where they are now and how they made it happen.

Learn about other similar mashup projects and -if you are technically minded- learn directly from the Sloodle development team how they connect the 2D web with the 3D world of Second Life.

Take part in discussion forums surrounding the use of virtual environments in education. What works? What's best avoided? And is all this a good idea anyway?

Alongside the serious sessions, there will also be fun and games to enjoy, as well as an end of event party!

The Sloodle Moot will officially start off at Sloodleville/virtuALBA at 4pm SLT on the 18th January (midnight GMT 19th Jan):

http://slurl.com/secondlife/virtuALBA/249/229/34

You will also be able to participate in sessions and share some of the fun bits via the Sloodle website.

Within Second Life, Sloodleville will be the base camp for the event, although some sessions will be taking place at other venues. Please check the upcoming event noticeboards at virtuALBA for up to date information and landmarks. The session schedule for the event will also be made available on the Sloodle website shortly.

This is an international event, so there will be a lot of scope for global networking.

If you would like further information about the Sloodle Moot, please contact me directly or reply to this thread.

Hope to see you on the day.
Gia

PS: You may even catch Martin in the pixel!

I have received an email telling me that Eduspaces is shutting down on January 10, 2008:

 Hi All,

We would like to inform all users of EduSpaces that we will be shutting
down the service on Jan 10th, 2008.

We have provided a mechanism for you to export all your blog posts in
either an RSS format or HTML. To do this, go to your blog and select the
submenu option you require. For those of you with files, you might want to
download those as well.

Thank you to everyone who has supported EduSpaces over the last three
years.

Best regards,

The EduSpaces team

As you can see, those of us having blogs here are offered to export our blog posts in html and rss. I am thinking to move this blog to an account in English at our Elgg installation in Spanish ( http://www.sociedadytecnologia.org ). Anyway, I will tell you what I will do with this blog before Eduspaces has shut down.

There is an important discussion on this topic in the site forum. there is also a how to on moving from Eduspaces to Edublogs. Stephen Downes and Graham Attwell among others have written about it at their blogs. You can look for information about it also at Technorati and Google blog search.

I am very sad about Curverider shutting down one of the most succesfull Elgg installations, anyway I am happy that Elgg continues to be a good open source project with such a good community. Thank you for providing such a good service. 

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by Karrie V.  

I am also in NY and would be interested in participating in anything within a days drive.

Thanks,

Karrie

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by Ann Wiswell.  

Hi all,

I am also interested in MoodleMoot anywhere this Spring 2008 - We are in Reno, Nevada so San Fransisco would be wonderful. We've just launched a Moodle site for safety training  -we are a municipal insurance pool. See us at www.poolpact.com

Thanks,

Ann Wiswell

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by Jon Allen.  

Good Afternoon,

We are planning a Moodle Moot in San Francisco for June 2008. It will be during the week of June 8-13, the exact dates of which will be announced when we open registration after the holiday break. The timing was chosen to be after schools were out for the summer, and is technically still Spring.

jon

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by Manuel Klimis.  

Hello Johanna,
Well I have become a Moodler in fact people are starting to call me Manny moodler. I live in Tarpon Springs, 45 min from tampa. I am tech teacher and curriculum deveopler. I love moodle. It is the ship to deliver the goods. Being a teacher of 33 years and I have been managing a computer lab for 12 years. Moodle is the easiest I have seen and very easy to master. Looking to take this to the next step.

Manny

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by Carlos Vargas.  

Hi Jon and others,
I live in the East Bay and am glad to know that we're having a Moodle Moot in SF. If there's anything I can do to help out, please count on me. I'm an independent contractor for City College of San Francisco, and I've been a Moodler for six years.

I'll be looking forward to it. Thanks to the organizers.

Carlos

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by Skip Marshall.  

I am the E-Learning Manager for a National Insurance Company (and a former teacher). I work out of our office in Tampa. We utilize Moodle within our organization and are in the process of providing Moodle across our sister companies. We would be interested in a local users group.....

Skip Marshall

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by Alan Taylor.  

I will be presenting at the 3:10 Session. Description: We often talk about technology integration but get stuck on simply trying to define it. By implementing a Moodle in the classroom, teachers are getting the opportunity to receive professional development and integrate technology into their classroom. Learn how to start implementing this process by attending this session.
Alan