User:Chris collman
Hi, I am still a new user, been working with Moodle since Jan 2006. Yes, I decided to change my photo at Moodle.org, again. Was a 2005 cira head shot of me, then 1965, then 1975, then 1968 (Ekoi Atan Ubom, Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria), then Clan McLeod Hold Fast, a 1946 picture of me, my Moodle confuzzeled icon, then the 50's flat top, "chris with frog", 2007 in Italy, a 1951 picture in a Stanford shirt, "Cool Chris" with sunglasses and hat, me and Lulu on my shoulder, a picture of a Navajo rug made for me as a Christmas gift, and now back of a recent head shot of me. My Moodle profile tells the rest of the story.
- "We are what we repeatedly do.
- Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
- "We are what we repeatedly do.
Here is a brief bio. As a support person, I work with Moodle 1.5 & 1.6 & 1.7 & 1.8 & 1.9 within a very specific learning environment, 'certified training' for state agencies. Most Moodlers are trying to be fantastic educators and interact with students for weeks or months. Our goals are similar but the interaction is very different. We are starting to integrate some of our recorded interactive video presentations as part of our Moodle course material. Since 2002, I have been a program coordinator of 700 hours a year of interactive video events, usually between 4 or more sites. II am constantly learning.
Lived and worked with Ibos, Effics (Nigeria), Somalis during my 4 years in the Peace Corps doing Community/Rural Development. Served in the Army for 2 years. Live with the Navajo for a year as a jack of all trades at a boarding school for special students in New Mexico, while I did historical research. I have a BA in Anthropology from Franconia College. My wife and I ran a small manufacturing company in rural New England for 20 years before my current job. Beside Moodle, my hobbies include genealogy, local histories, and encouraging wild flowers around my house near the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA.
As a Moodler, I am interested in presentations to the so called "Newbie" perspective: The KISS, "what are the basic things I need to know" kinds of things about Course Lessons or a few other Moodle subjects. I want to assist someone in presenting their content, in their way. That is a challenge because everybody "sees what they want to see, hears what they want to hear, you dig?" (says the Rockman in The Point) and there are so many ways to use Moodle.
I'm in the basic areas of MoodleDocs because I have the time and want to flatten the new Moodler's learning curve from 
to 
. I appreciate all those who improve upon my work and Helen Foster for the alignments with the big picture.
My wife was tired of not being able to share files, communicate and keep information up to date with her school counselor association via their web site. Why not Moodle? So I have been having fun changing courses into committee rooms and translating Moodle into language that ironically is all about the social constructionist point of view, for this group of adults that just wants to communicate (or not). I call this applied anthropology (big grin).
Need I add that Life Should be Fun!
Chris
Footnotes
After I learned about subpages on userpages in wikipedia, I decided to put my handy formats for MoodleDocs here
I am thinking that a page with documentation that is already indexed might be useful
- Chris collman/Workshop temp space to gather page info from help and other files
- Chris collman/sandbox1 showing template samples, template list of templates
- Chris collman/template1 sample template for creation
- Chris collman/LessonDemo1 or Chris collman/LessonDemo1/LessonPageList
- Chris collman/TestingProcess
- Chris collman/version notes Things my site admin is interested in
- Chris collman/sandbox2 Another sandbox for Block temp, will delete later
- Don't forget the very handy [[template:update]] to ask for content help in the
Category:Pages requiring updating. Or {{Update_section}}
Discovered David Scotson's David Scotson concerning MoodleDocs.
Lesson Development pages
