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Check out my Conferences Page!

On June 11, 2009, in Moodle, by admin
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I’m presenting at conferences again.  Here’s the latest:

Topic:  Moodle Site Administration: Bringing Together Technology and Usability (link to course)

Presented at:

  • Online Teaching Conference at Cabrillo College in Aptos, CA on June 11-12th
  • MoodleMoot San Francisco 2009 held at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, CA on June 17-19th

Access to the materials are freely available to the public.

For attendees of my presentation, I’ve two unique login credentials (choose one to login to the course linked above):

  • Online Teaching Conference:
  • username: otlconf09
  • password: join

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  • Moodle Moot SF:
  • username: mmoot09
  • password: join

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Links for IDST 165 Course – How to Promote Your Portfolio and Talent on the Web

On March 5, 2009, in ID, trainers, by admin
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Link to Public Google Doc for this post:
Link to Ayana Baltrip’s IDST 165 Course blog posting on this presentation:


Social Sites for publicizing:

  • http://www.flickr.com – allows for you to post and tag your work, allow for download or copyright protect (is occasionally searched by big production houses for work to purchase and sell for royalty)
  • http://irovr.com/ – for ipod touch and iphone users
  • http://stumbleupon.com – the tags you create increase your visibility in the search
  • http://twitter.com – use to post updates to your blog on professional topics
  • http://linkedin.com – network with other professionals, get on the boardshttp://epsilen.com – once you get ccsf.edu email address (projected Fall 2009), sign-up is free – you can post your portfolio (choose public or selectively share) and participate in online communities.

In-person networking and online community sites:

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Twitter Updates for 2008-03-18

On March 18, 2008, in TwitterBlog, by admin
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  • Moodle Process note: When doing a Moodle installation, you should use 1 server and the processes outlined for backup/restore/reset a course. #
  • Using two servers and backing up and restoring across servers, unless you’ve an enterprise MySQL installation and team, is bad practice. #
  • Find out how the software was intended to work, how it actually works, and then apply this knowledge. #
  • Restoring across servers is going to break links coded in Moodle modules unless the “add a resource” function is used at the activity level. #
  • If you’ve already got courses built using an unsecure server and you switch to a secure server, the http will not translate to https. #

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If you’ve already got courses …

On March 18, 2008, in TwitterBlog, by admin
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If you’ve already got courses built on Moodle using an unsecure server and you switch to a secure server, the http will not auto-translate to https in all of your course links.  Moodle seeks out the root file path to swap out and update links when courses are restored – meaning it takes the “http://yourserver.com/file.php/###/” and swaps it when restoring courses.  But by default, if you switch to an https server, you’ll have to write a custom script to make the site properly update the file paths in all links.

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Restoring across servers is …

On March 18, 2008, in TwitterBlog, by admin
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Restoring across servers is going to break links coded in Moodle modules unless the “add a resource” function is used at the activity level.

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Find out how the software was …

On March 18, 2008, in TwitterBlog, by admin
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Find out how the software was intended to work, how it actually works, and then apply this knowledge.

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Using two servers and backing …

On March 18, 2008, in TwitterBlog, by admin
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Using two servers and backing up and restoring across servers, unless you’ve an enterprise MySQL installation and team, is bad practice.

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Moodle Process note: When doin…

On March 18, 2008, in TwitterBlog, by admin
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Moodle Process note: When doing a Moodle installation, you should use 1 server and the processes outlined for backup/restore/reset a course.

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e-Learning Resources – Where to start for developing and/or teaching online

On September 18, 2007, in ID, instructors, LMS, Moodle, trainers, by admin
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A fellow Moodler (someone who uses Moodle.org’s LMS software) asked where to learn some basic principles about e-Learning and how to get a “demo” course up quickly. It was posted in Moodle.org’s forums. I am reposting what I suggested here, as many have found it quite useful so far:

“Re: E-Learning Training – by Mary Parke – Tuesday, 17 July 2007, 09:03 AM

I’m copying below the resources I point my beginning instructors to. Also, you may just want to try out the demo.moodle.org courses, as well – they have full functionality for testing out the features. The below resources are more on the pedagogy of teaching “online”. However, I’d go to the Michigan State Virtual University website and check it out – they have a great “mental map” of the whole process that is clickable.

What you will want to focus on, is the layout/structure of your demo course, and adding a few tools for your demo instructors to test out. Choose topics or weeks, and know that the top block of your course is where you’d put things like the name of the course, the instructor, contact info for the instructor, a link to the syllabus, and possibly an “iCafe” discussion forum for your students or a “Q/A” forum for your students to ask questions about the course/course materials. Then plan out your weeks. Put a header on the first line (week 1 or the name of the topic) and then add content and resources using “add a resource – choose create a webpage, or link to a directory or file” or if you’ve the book module installed, create a book of the content for the week/topic. Then add a discussion forum, an assignment (online is easiest), or a quiz. This is just the basics…

If you need a template, let me know.

Good luck!

- Mary
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Where are you now? What’s your motivation?

On September 12, 2007, in admins, ID, instructors, LMS, Moodle, policy, sysadmins, trainers, by admin
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So, where are you? What IS your motivation?

You could be a designer charged with learning the new LMS system and creating “trainings” and helping instructors create courses – and designing templates, too…

You could be an interested instructor – seeking to get ahead of the game and hone your e-Learning or online teaching skills…

You could be an instructor faced with changing LMSs – perhaps your institution ditched WebCT or Blackboard for the lower cost Moodle alternative? You’re faced with learning a new system and hoping that your course migrates to the new one and that you can get it up and running with minimal expenditure of your already sparse time and effort…

You could be faced with the decision to choose an LMS system: you’re an administrator, a faculty member, an IT person, a designer. You’re a chosen one, checking things out and evaluating what’s available and how it will “fit” with your institution…

You may have stumbled upon eLearning and discovered LMSs with the goal of “saving time”, “reducing on-campus time”, “teaching remotely”, and “ditching the physical classroom”- if for no reason other than convenience and reducing or avoiding a commute…

Whomever you are, whatever description, whether it’s one of these or any number of others, fit you…you’ve come to the right place.

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