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==Archives== | |||
News, August 9th. Taking a break from any bigger Moodle issues, like trying to work on basic issues that I've written up here to improve the core moodle, off to do a few weeks of other things. | |||
2.1.1 is out, and I have a playground to see how things are. Not a lot of progress on the useabilility and speed of use/efficiency issues. These I think still make Moodle 2 harder to use in it's present state, now looking to 2.2. | |||
Sad to see Tomaz gone http://tomazlasic.net/, but the classroom benefits. Good to see Moots still happening. | |||
My latest thoughts on Professional Development. "Simple tools, Powerful learning activities" Just Groups, Forums and Files. (Maybe with quizzes). Writing this up at http://wikieducator.org/Moodle_2/Moving_On on Wikieducator. Too many people I have worked with have stalled after just a little Moodle staff development without getting a good grasp of what can actually be done. Too rushed and breathless. Teaching teachers is often like doing heart surgery and still keeping on with the hurley burley of teaching life. | |||
-Derek | |||
derek.chirnside(at)gmail | |||
I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into core Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3, after my list in 2009 and 2010. There is some progress, but it's been 2 steps forward, one step back: | |||
#cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually) | |||
#blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses) | |||
#themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now) | |||
#better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management) | |||
#filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible) | |||
#repositories (sort of) | |||
'''Some musings.''' There is a lot of really good things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in '''Core Vanilla Moodle'''. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . . | |||
I worry that the future development of Moodle will head down the lines of Mobile (taking a lot of resources from the basics) or Distros (like ELIS or Totara) or OU-type customisations. MoodleHQ may just not have the time or inclination to get the small helpful fixes into Moodle core. | |||
Footnote: Mobile is interesting: at a Moodle workshop in Singapore in early June I was basically in a room full of folk with iPhone. It was a serious question "Moodle for Mobile" but really only the forums. I've changed my opinion: maybe Moodle for Mobile is needed. | |||
Latest revision as of 10:11, 5 June 2012
Archives
News, August 9th. Taking a break from any bigger Moodle issues, like trying to work on basic issues that I've written up here to improve the core moodle, off to do a few weeks of other things.
2.1.1 is out, and I have a playground to see how things are. Not a lot of progress on the useabilility and speed of use/efficiency issues. These I think still make Moodle 2 harder to use in it's present state, now looking to 2.2.
Sad to see Tomaz gone http://tomazlasic.net/, but the classroom benefits. Good to see Moots still happening.
My latest thoughts on Professional Development. "Simple tools, Powerful learning activities" Just Groups, Forums and Files. (Maybe with quizzes). Writing this up at http://wikieducator.org/Moodle_2/Moving_On on Wikieducator. Too many people I have worked with have stalled after just a little Moodle staff development without getting a good grasp of what can actually be done. Too rushed and breathless. Teaching teachers is often like doing heart surgery and still keeping on with the hurley burley of teaching life.
-Derek derek.chirnside(at)gmail
I'm interested in the process of getting small fixes into core Moodle. There seem to be a number of no brainers, and I've often wondered what it needs to get things moving a little. I have also found it hard to follow the tracker. So, this is really list #3, after my list in 2009 and 2010. There is some progress, but it's been 2 steps forward, one step back:
- cohorts (but to make a cohort you need to chose each of the 200 names individually)
- blog comments (But the have removed blogs posts attached to courses)
- themes (but there is no one basic theme with the basic features in it in standard with Moodle now)
- better import and export of activities and resources (at a cost of difficulties in the file management)
- filters (but a lot of hard coding so they are inflexible)
- repositories (sort of)
Some musings. There is a lot of really good things we could do on Moodle. And there are a lot of good plugins. I'm interested in Core Vanilla Moodle. Big organisations can make the changes they want. Small organisations often can survive without them. Slightly bigger: like they don't link to an SMS and have to create 40 courses (No CSV new course upload), they use self enrolment (No e-mail sent to teacher) they can't install plugins (Like the menu to remove the scroll of death) . . .
I worry that the future development of Moodle will head down the lines of Mobile (taking a lot of resources from the basics) or Distros (like ELIS or Totara) or OU-type customisations. MoodleHQ may just not have the time or inclination to get the small helpful fixes into Moodle core.
Footnote: Mobile is interesting: at a Moodle workshop in Singapore in early June I was basically in a room full of folk with iPhone. It was a serious question "Moodle for Mobile" but really only the forums. I've changed my opinion: maybe Moodle for Mobile is needed.
