Monday Moodle Recap- May 2, 2011

Happy Monday! Check out the latest Moodle and e-Learning headlines with our weekly recap below. Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments below or by emailing feedback@moodlerooms.com.

Thanks for reading.

From the Web

• Blog on funding for open courseware in higher education

• Enter to Win a Ticket to the 2011 iMoot!
  

• Moodle and overcoming barriers in distance learning for developing countries
  

• Urbandale High School in IA uses documents state physics competition, footage available in Moodle.
  

• Some possibilities for the recent #lms-based FOIA requests by Michael Feldstein
  

• Congratulations and welcome to our three Google Summer of Code 2011 students, who will be working on Moodle projects over the next 3-4 months

• UW Educational Outreach to increase online course offerings
  

• Using Open Source Moodle with Microsoft cloud services - case study

• Students over at the University of New England's Graduate School of Business (AU) begin using Moodle
  

• Moodlefairy's recap of the UK Moodle Moot 2011

From moodlenews.com

• iMoot Speaker Spotlight: @Josephthibault

• New Block: User Information Block

• Win a pass to iMoot sponsored by @wirismath #imoot

• Enter to Win a Ticket to the 2011 iMoot! #imoot
  

• #MootUK11 Pics online at Flickr
  

• Slick new Block: Create Wordle-like Text Clouds based on course files

• #iMoot Speaker Spotlight: Bob Gettings “tweaking forums for peer evaluation/discussion”

• A Closer Look at Moodle.org’s Forums: Using Moodle and the Lounge

• 1st Mobile Theme for Moodle 2.0?

• New theme for 1.9: Premium Red from the Haley eLearning Center

• #iMoot Speaker Spotlight: The Course Creation CHALLENGE Panel

• #MootUSCA11 introduces its Ning & Early Bird registration ends 5/2

• And #iMoot registration winners are…

• And #iMoot registration winners Slides from my #iMoot “Many Faces of Moodle” presentation

• Accordion Resource to reduce the “Scroll Of Death” in Moodle 1.9

• Check out the “Slides” course format for Moodle 2.0
  

About Moodlerooms

• The Moodle Moot US- West Coast 2011 (#mootusca11) NING is up and running. Feel free to register and help us build out the community!