I started using Moodle this year, as seen on this website, for one of my English classes. I have been doing weekly journal writing, and even tried out peer assessment of writing. So what next? Well, I went fishing for ideas around the web and here are some of the interesting articles I found: Moodle review by the Teaching English and a Second or Foreign Language Journal Moodle at DCU explains why the Dublin University decided on a campus-wide deployment…
I was reading Red Sky in the Morning, and two lines in particular really intrigued me: “When babies are born in these old books, the mother’s poor daughter is always sent to the kitchens to boil gallons of water. It never explained what the water was for.†As it turns out, this is actually more than an old wives’ tale to get the men out of the way and messing up the intricate process of childbirthing 😉 I found this…
MacCentral has posted an excellent article showing the insides of the Mac mini. It sure looks easy enough to upgrade the RAM. Most tempting! On another note, iWok 05 and iLife 05 have started shipping too! Can’t wait for the reviews!!
Wish I’d found this sooner. WordPress Help – Podz @ Tamba2. Looks really useful.
Ok, transferring my blog entries over to my new hosting service was not as straight-forward as transferring over my Moodle stuff. Someone really ought to write an easy-to-use plugin to backup/restore WordPress entries. Or if it exists..make it more easily available. Didn’t bother to go through the hassle with my Mambo site though – simply re-created the entire thing, especially since it’s still rather bare anyhow. Since I was re-doing stuff and my old photo gallery was sparse anyway, also…
My new Focushub hosted website became operational late last night, so I immediately went about transferring some of my sites. First up was ELVLE since I’ll be getting about 40 students to use it later in the morning. So far, the speed’s been really impressive – much faster than with . That means I won’t have to cancel and ask for a refund …hehe.. The cpanel login is unlike what I’m used to with differenthost or Globat. Not as user-friendly…