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In which I relate a personal story about how the one eportfolio I was required as a student to make on an institutional eportfolio system has now disappeared for good (to me) with no communication from the institution....more...
One of the problems I have with the way Moodle has been implemented at this institution (and probably not unique to this institution) is the absence of a search engine. Mostly because the students "inability to find anything" is being blamed on poor course design and being solved by an institutional push for consistency....more...
Came across this presentation, "Learning how to learn" (a bit ra-ra, but covers many of the bases for changes in the world and implications for learning). It includes this quote...more...
In short, there is definitely a pattern. In fact, there are two patterns evident:...more...
As mentioned previously the simplistic (lazy) introductory forum for #edc3100 didn't achieve it's ill-defined goals. I need to find a new one....more...
The following is a list of updates I need to make to a perl script I wrote last year that helps me properly attribute the Creative Commons licenced Flickr photos I use in presentations. This list arises from prepare the welcome video for this year's course. Most, if not all, of the updates are to make it easier to use, prevent the chance of "spam" like behaviour and deal with apparent reliability issues with the Flickr API....more...
A journal of fixes and testing of BIM. Aim here is to address some minor issues with integration with my current institution's Moodle instance thereby providing a minimum working version for installation. As per yesterday's planning the hope is to make further changes based on this foundation....more...
I have until the 21st of February to get BIM tested and ready for installation into the institutional Moodle instance. The following is some initial planning of what I'd like to get done in that time frame. A list that will then need to be further whittled away to what I can get done in that time frame. There are three categories of changes...more...
Now that I have the Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV) working, I can continue the analysis of the course I teach, EDC3100, ICTs and Pedagogy. This post documents some reflections on the existing collection of activities and resources in the course informed somewhat by the insights provided by MAV....more...
I'm currently analysing the structure of a course I teach and have been using @damoclarky's Moodle Activity Viewer to help with that. In the process, I've discovered that I'm an idiot in having missed the much more interesting and useful application of MAV than what I've mentioned previously. The following explains (at least one example of) how I'm an idiot and how MAV can help provide a type of process analytics as defined by Lockyer et al (2013)....more...
I've spent the last few days - on and off - getting the Moodle Activity Viewer installed on my local Moodle instance. There were two main reasons for doing this...more...