[Year 12 IPM] moodle
Stephen Digby
digby.stephen.p at edumail.vic.gov.au
Fri Nov 3 18:30:25 EST 2006
Totally agree - there is no such thing as a perfect solution...
Solutions gather momentum from their power, flexibility, responsiveness,
user base, price and philosophy.
Moodle is powerful for education in that it has built in functions that
model many aspects of educational course delivery.
It is flaky in many areas (wiki) and undeveloped in others (embedded files,
user file management, print layout, calendar functions)
It is highly flexible in that it has so many features that can be "twisted"
to support novel applications (wiki as a staff manual, a shared textbook or
a group project tool. Forum as information sharing, group task with
individual assessment etc etc).
It is highly flexible in that it is so amenable to user tweaking due to the
open and relatively well structured code.
It is responsive in that the open source community is continually developing
additional features and improved functionality based on feedback from the
growing community of schools and universities that use it.
It's user base is still small and nowhere near as influential as that for
Blackboard/ WebCT but is developing.
It's price on the other hand can't be beaten ($0) when compared to other
comparable products - even including the Vic Govt "UltraNet" which will
most likely be an expensive, bureaucratic, un-tweakable, proprietary
product.
It's philosophy - open source and tolerant of many learning approaches - is
one of it's most attractive features. The concept of community development
of community solutions is returning to the internet in force after a few
decades in which it seemed that user pays would totally rule the web. We
should support this for moral reasons - as well as financial.
Forgot to mention that it is a proud Australian product.
I wish that an Aust Govt would get behind it so that it can be developed
(transformed?) into something that is far more powerful, flexible,
responsive, with a huge user base while retaining the zero price and open
philosophy.
Until then, we have choices to "lock in" commercial products which
increasingly require large annual licenses rather than any form of
ownership, let alone control.
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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of Brendyn Hancock
Sent: 03 November 2006 03:18 PM
To: ipm at edulists.com.au
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] moodle
Daniel
Moodle can do many things, in fact, I have seen several examples where it
has been pushed into some really otherwise untested areas. For everything
that I list as a failing I'm sure a creative and passionate moodler could
offer me a solution.
I believe however that it may not be the best solution. If it was, then we
could do away with so many other web based packages. Why are there products
like Scholastic, Synergetic, MAZE, Denbi etc Not to mention the herd of
proprietary written intranets. You can mow an oval with a 26" cut ride on
mower, but it's best done with a 72" cut golf style fairway mower.
Don't be shy everyone. Join in.
Brendyn
Brendyn Hancock
IT Manager
bhancock at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au
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>>> Daniel.Stanley at flinders.vic.edu.au 03/11/2006 2:38 pm >>>
I would be interested to hear any moodle 'failings' that you may have
experienced.
Daniel Stanley
Flinders Christian Community College.
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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Brendyn Hancock
Sent: Fri 3/11/2006 11:07 AM
To: ipm at edulists.com.au
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] moodle
At the risk of being flamed.
Moodle is not the answer to everything! :-)
Its is a great curriculum support/delivery but it is not a substitute for a
well designed intranet/internal information system.
Brendyn
>>> Lance.Gibbens at flinders.vic.edu.au 03/11/2006 10:48 am >>>
Can I add my voice to this request? I think this would be a great idea.
Kind regards
Lance
Lance Gibbens
Head of Teaching and Learning
Flinders Christian Community College
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On Behalf Of margaret.lawson at konstantkaos.net
Sent: Friday, 3 November 2006 10:32 AM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] moodle
Rob
There is a moodle mailing list set up on edulists and and there are many
of using it both professionally and personally to do a number of things.
Get on that list and perhaps come along to the next interest group
(moot) being organised.
Regards
Margaret
> Are schools using sharepoint and moodle for separate tasks within
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> We currently use sharepoint for document storage and access. I am
> interested by t! he recent thread covering ePortfolio and their use of
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> On Behalf Of Travers, Graham J
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>> Some (old) tests attached - you may be able to peel off some u seful
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> Does anyone have a Yr 11 IT exam for the end of the year, with
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