Moodle Mail List

I have often wondered where or if people involved in Moodle get together to discuss the VLE. The group in ‘Google Groups’ hasabout 3 postings a week, two of them spam of some sort. At last I have found it – http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?INDEX&X=61C6F86D6D7C4B534B

This is a list primarily for Higher and Further Education in the UK, but the problems are pretty much the same as those faced by people in Secondary schools. The list comes in several flavours – Technical, UK, Wales, FE, HE. It is neccasary to register in order to take part, but that is no great hardship. The UK group has over 400 active participants and the Technical Group will be vital for VLE admins.

Adobe.com- challenging Google docs

WWW.adobe.com joins https://www.photoshop.com/express as part of a developing stable of online apps that are clearly intended to challenge Google docs for its crown. The platform is based on Flash rather than Ajax and is a much more sophisticated experience than Googles offering. Read more

SCORM- less than meets the eye

Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)

 SCORM is a standard that describes how Shareable Content learning Objects (SCO’s) can be packaged and used within a Learning Management System (LMS). The learning objects are usually web pages, web sites, swf based tutorials and other files. Most modern VLEs recognise and work with the SCORM standard. Read more

Research for the Busy Educationalist

 Google Alerts and its related Blog Search Gadget are extremely useful research tools that require no day-to-day attention. Set up the search terms and either use a second email account or a filter for your main account and the results will be delivered to you even though you are not actively searching.

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