User:Frank Ralf

What I am doing here

I am exploring Moodle as an e-learning tool for teaching German as a foreign language to Japanese

XML related stuff

• I am working on XML FAQ and Import and export FAQ
• At the moment I am trying to create a XML Schma for Moodle XML for validation purposes

• Also on my todo list:
  • creating XSLT stylesheet for converting Moodle XML to and from different (human readable) formats
  • creating macros for OpenOffice for offline quiz creation
• Importing into Moodle on manual converting Excel to XML

Drupal integration

• I am also interested in integrating Moodle and Drupal, the open source CMS
  • My Drupal profile: http://drupal.org/user/216048
  • Drupal in Education User Group: http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education
  • The ongoing discussion about Drupal and Moodle: http://groups.drupal.org/node/13600

• There's an interesting discussion in the Moodle Language Teaching course:

How can Moodle be more of a social networking site?

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=83963&mode=3

I posted some more links regarding Drupal in education over there.

Learning Moodle programming

• I am taking part in the Introduction to Moodle Programming course (http://dev.moodle.org)
• I am working on a Moodle plugin for FirePHP

Theming related stuff

• I am following the discussions on the Use of JavaScript in Moodle and The Future of Moodle Templates?

Anatomy of Moodle HTML - on to more semantic code!

• Some thoughts on Frank Ralf/Semantic HTML1 (work in progress).

Miscellaneous

• I have created some pages in the Moodle documentation: Javascript FAQ, CSS FAQ, PHP FAQ, Usability FAQ, Database FAQ, Development:Firebug
• I am watching the following issue in Moodle tracker:

Day names, month names and am/pm appear garbled in Chinese and Japanese on Windows servers

http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-14149