The Moodle Recap: September 20, 2011

Good Morning!

We took a little break for awhile, but we're glad to be back in full swing. Check out the latest Moodle and e-Learning headlines with our weekly recap below. As always, if you think we missed anything, let us know by emailing feedback@moodlerooms.com.

Thanks for reading,
- Brad

From the Web

• Video: Embedding Multimedia Resources in Moodle

• Presentation: Mooving to Moodle, Guilford Technical Community College
  

• Moodle Goes Mobile on iPhone

• Randolph County, AL meets 19 of 21 AYP Goals, Uses Moodle

• Student Group for Disability Education Calls for Improvements in Assistive Technologies

• Testing the Chromebook 2 in the Workplace, with Moodle

• Showing Descriptions in Moodle 2.2

• Google Summer of Code Successes from @moodlehelen

• The Pulse Podcasts: Lou Pugliese of @Moodlerooms

• Hamilton Parents Invited to Get Connected

• Kenyon Grant Creates Center for Innovative Pedagogy

• Thoughts on the Official Moodle Mobile App for iPhone by @ghenrick

• Schools Emphasized Storm Communication During Irene

• An Overview of Communication Tools in Moodle

• Truly "Free" Schools are Online

• Swarthmore College Uses Moodle to Manage Class Elections

• Little Falls Gets REAL About iPad Technology

• Configuring Moodle 2.0 to use Microsoft Exchange

• Panopto Focus 4.0 Gets Moodle 2.0 Integration

• Leaders in Training Throughout Maryland

• Missouri Senate allows Teacher student communication on Facebook
  

From www.moodlenews.com

• Copyright and Moodle: “What can I put on my course?”

• “Best Moodle Tools you’ve never used” Presentation by @michelledmoore

• Moodle 2.1 Administrator Map (your guide to everywhere) by @synergylearning

• OKMindMap – make sibling nodes into a parent-and-child: a simple but not obvious operation

• Moodle user Authentication via Google (super simple registration) by @mouneyrac

• 48 text/image Moodle Tutorials from @OfficialTildee

• MP3 Quickie – a new MP3 voice recorder for Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.x to record 20-second “quickies”

• What is “Multi-Tenancy”? (new in Moodle 2.2)

• Moodle v. Blackboard: the main factors in deciding which to use

• The Official Mobile App for Moodle is OUT NOW

• New in 2.2: Show item descriptions next to resource/activity links

• Gone Moodle: Elon University and McPherson College

• CLAMP LAE 1.4 has been released

• Check out the Folder course format in a video by @Moodlerooms

• Interested in TurnitIn Plagiarism Detection? Here’s a video on how to setup a TurnitIn activity

• @eschoolnews presents a free webinar: “Best Practices for Hosting, Support and Use of Moodle in K-12 Schools” on October 5th

• Handy Enrollment Cap tool for Moodle 1.9

• Great Graphic showing the Growth of LMS usage and market share #Blackboard #Sakai #Instructure

• Check out this collection of 73 videos on @Veoh

• Gone Moodle (Vermont Edition): Lyndon State College, Castleton State College and GlobalClassroom.us

• MP3 Quickie – now with MP3 download and upload features

• From the Hub: Integrating iPads in the Middle School classroom

• Using Google Apps in Moodle by @wastretchbeyond