Archive for June, 2007

Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Whilst researching Helga – a derivative of Elgg, a social networking platform, information provided by John Scriven ‘Social networking – Elgg’ posted on the CLT Blog on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 – I came across this interesting post/ article: ‘Elgg, Drupal, and Moodle — the components of an online learning environment’, which can be accessed [...]

University Photo Tour – Courtesy of Google Maps

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Following Google’s improved photos of the University, I waited until today for some good weather so I could take a camera and my Garmin eTrex GPS on a photo tour of the campus. Getting the GPS latitude & longitude metadata into the jpegs was easy using HoudahGeo software but this produces a .kmz file [...]

Innovating e-Learning 2007 – the small carbon footprint conference

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

This week I’m at a conference, which is an enjoyable but a rather schizoid experience – mainly because this is the first online conference I’ve followed fairly assiduously. It was hard work choosing between a computer screen and the fresh air but I finally managed it & what with playing with new software (DialogPlus [...]

Moodle – questions and answers

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

A few questions and some answers with regards to Moodle – the questions posed by Viv Palmer – mainly to do with messages, discussions and the chatroom.  If anyone has any further information to add to the answers, please do so and we’ll think of a way for all to access them. 
 moodle-faq.doc
Perhaps the beginning [...]

No clouds over Chichester (part 2 – on the road to a mashup)

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Following the discovery of updated views of Chichester and the Downs, my next move was to check out Google’s API documentation to see how easy it was to generate maps. Yes, it’s always been possible to cut and paste from Google Maps & Google Earth but to generate an interactive map of a specific [...]

No more clouds over Chichester….

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

After a previous blog where I shared my misery that Bishop Otter was obscured by fluffy cumulus (cumuli?) when viewed by either Google Earth or Google Maps, I was delighted to see that in the last few days updated views have appeared.
I have also been meaning to post my recent discovery of Flash Earth, a [...]

Learning Technologist of the Year Award – ALT

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

To all ALT members and to all ALT member organisations
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ALT is delighted to be organising and presenting the inaugural Learning Technologist of the Year Award. The Award is open to individual members of ALT and to individuals and teams based in ALT member organisations worldwide. Full details of the award, and the application [...]