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The last post ended up with the basics of the student controller and views functioning to produce some simple output. The aim here is to get the entire student interface up and actually reading data from the database. It won't be completely finished. There will be some additional extra features to add. The aim here is to iron our the design of the whole model/view/controller set of classes....more...
I'm currently programming up bim2, a new version of BIM to work with Moodle 2.0. I'm wondering whether a version of BIM for Wordpress might be an idea....more...
bim2 now has a working controller structure, but it doesn't do anything. This post summarises initial attempts to implement the student controller so that it actually implements the state machine for the student interactions. It's also the first attempt to implement some models and views with the MVC structure for bim2. This is liable to raise a range of questions about design, testing and other tasks....more...
So, bim2 is up and going, at least in terms of being able to create an instance of the activity within a course. The trouble is that it can't do anything. This post starts the process of implementing the design of the user interactions with bim2. The intent is to go with a Model-View-Controller type structure in the hope that this will improve flexibility and reuse....more...
Okay, so after fixing up the naming problems with bim2 etc, it's time to actually get the code going....more...
I'm becoming increasingly interested in how the design of e-learning systems can be improved through insights from behaviour change literature and related work (e.g. I think game design principles have some connections with behaviour change. A while ago I started some thinking about this. The following is a summary of/reflection on...more...
The last post covered the initial steps in starting bim2. Including the choice of the name bim2. But there is a problem....more...
The following records some of the initial steps in actually coding bim2. It includes...more...
The main long term issue in the use of BIM has been student's creating blog posts that contain "special" characters. This is typically done when they create their post in Word and then copy and paste it into their blog. The interaction between BIM, SimplePie and database engines has not been a good one. It results in blog posts either not being stored in the Moodle database or being cut off at the special character....more...
One of the ideas proposed, or at least reportedly proposed, in Shekerjian (1990) is that the act of becoming aware that other people hold different perceptions of some task helps you think about your own strategy. I like this idea and tend to believe that being aware of diversity of opinion can help....more...
This might seem like a bit of procrastination preventing progress on BIM 2.0, but it's part of the whole Moodle 2 familiarisation process and also checking out the work of a friend. What follows is an attempt to install the universite theme for Moodle 2 onto a local instance....more...
Continuing on with playing with Moodle 2.0 and in particular its external blog syncing and integration of SimplePie. The aim here is to test the problem with special characters in feeds and what it does to PostgreSQL databases....more...