[Courses] Courses Digest, Vol 46, Issue 5

Fri Nov 16 15:31:33 UTC 2007

I have just signed up and am completely out of my league but am interested 
in taking the PostgreSQL course.  My guess is I'll have to read and file the 
lessons to read again when I have a little more foundation upon which to 
work.  Please let me chime in by asking for a brief intro on registering for 
and taking a Moodle course.  My first reaction to hearing the word Moodle 
was "Oh, nooooo.......".

Thanks,

Lisa M

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: [Postgresql] Course starting on Monday! (Figaro)
   2. "Moodle for beginners" course? (Margot)
   3. Re: "Moodle for beginners" course? (Figaro)
   4. Re: "Moodle for beginners" course? (Kaisa Anttila)
   5. Re: "Moodle for beginners" course? (Robyn M)
   6. Re: "Moodle for beginners" course? (Marjan la Grand)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:05:13 +0000
From: Figaro <ynegorp at charter.net>
Subject: Re: [Courses] [Postgresql] Course starting on Monday!
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Hello,
Great, can't wait!
However, a quick question:
Could someone point those of us who have not used a Moodle(d) course
before to a user introduction? I've been to the link listed in the first
Postgresql course announcement but am not sure what is required of me to
register for the course there.
I hope that I am not the only illiterate in this... but if so please
forgive. Learning IS fun!
Thank you,
matthew

Michelle M wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The PostgreSQL course will start on Monday! I'll be posting some basic
> info about PG, and some things about the course. I will also be inviting
> folks to introduce themselves, and what they want to get out of the 
> course.
>
> If you have some time, you might want to enroll in the course on the
> Moodle site. I see that 5 people have already done so. Hurray!
>
> For now, I'll be posting information both on the list and in Moodle.
> We'll figure out as the course progresses whether we should move
> everything to moodle, or work with both.
>
> I'm really looking forward to this!
>
> Peace,
> Michelle

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:35:45 +0000
From: Margot <margot at lawrence1961.f9.co.uk>
Subject: [Courses] "Moodle for beginners" course?
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Hi all,

Now that we're starting to run courses using Moodle, is there any
chance that somebody could run a "Moodle for beginners" course?

I'd be reluctant to sign up for courses using Moodle, because I know
nothing about it and would find it difficult learning Moodle at the
same time as learning the subject of the course - and there may be
others like me, and maybe even potential tutors who are put off
volunteering to run a course because they don't know how to use Moodle.

So, would any of our experienced Moodle users be able to run a
course? Maybe a 2-part course, with one part aimed at students and
one part aimed at teachers?

-- 
Margot

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:28:14 +0000
From: Figaro <ynegorp at charter.net>
Subject: Re: [Courses] "Moodle for beginners" course?
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Great Idea!

Margot wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that we're starting to run courses using Moodle, is there any
> chance that somebody could run a "Moodle for beginners" course?
>
> I'd be reluctant to sign up for courses using Moodle, because I know
> nothing about it and would find it difficult learning Moodle at the
> same time as learning the subject of the course - and there may be
> others like me, and maybe even potential tutors who are put off
> volunteering to run a course because they don't know how to use Moodle.
>
> So, would any of our experienced Moodle users be able to run a
> course? Maybe a 2-part course, with one part aimed at students and
> one part aimed at teachers?
>

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:55:59 +0200
From: "Kaisa Anttila" <kaisa.anttila at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Courses] "Moodle for beginners" course?
To: courses at linuxchix.org
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I'd be interested on some sort of introduction to Moodle, too. In
fact, I'd love to see a full course on that. I need to use Moodle in
my university studies, too, and I'd like to understand the system
better. I also might get some professional gain from that - I'd love
to try sell Moodle to more schools that right now use horrible
over-prized systems!

Also I wanted to give a little encouragment to everybody even if we
don't get a Moodle course. My mother is generally afraid of computers
and everything new she has to do with them. She is taking some courses
to improve her working skills and the last courses she took uses their
own system and it's absolutely horrible. Mom said after struggling
with it for a while "why can't they use that Moodle system, it was so
clear and easy to use"! If my mom finds it easy, it can't be horribly
complicated and scary :P

Kaisa

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:07:08 +1030
From: Robyn M <rob_39 at bigpond.com>
Subject: Re: [Courses] "Moodle for beginners" course?
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Hi

Moodle is a tool for people to make a website that allows users to
log-in to a specific course. You don't need to know 'Moodle' to be able
to use the end result website. Moodle is just a name like Drupal you
don't need to know Drupal to use the end result website it has created.

A course in how to make Moodle courses would be great.

Cheers

Robyn

Margot wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that we're starting to run courses using Moodle, is there any
> chance that somebody could run a "Moodle for beginners" course?
>
> I'd be reluctant to sign up for courses using Moodle, because I know
> nothing about it and would find it difficult learning Moodle at the
> same time as learning the subject of the course - and there may be
> others like me, and maybe even potential tutors who are put off
> volunteering to run a course because they don't know how to use Moodle.
>
> So, would any of our experienced Moodle users be able to run a
> course? Maybe a 2-part course, with one part aimed at students and
> one part aimed at teachers?
>

-- 
"Mostly, it's serious fun for free software geeks, and
anyone else who believes that Linus' Law, "given enough eyeballs, all
bugs are shallow", is the path to better software" said Donna Benjamin,
Director of the linux.conf.au 2008 conference.

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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:54:05 +0100
From: Marjan la Grand <malaga at orange.nl>
Subject: Re: [Courses] "Moodle for beginners" course?
To: Courses at linuxchix.org
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Hi all,

Although I did not write much in this group yet, I always read the
messages ;-)
As to answer this question, at the moment I am busy setting up a Moodle
Hosting business and part of that job is to make courses about Moodle.
So if you want I can do that here to, I only have to translate it from
Dutch to English, but that is not a problem. So are there more people
interested in this one?

Marjan

Op donderdag 15-11-2007 om 22:35 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Margot:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that we're starting to run courses using Moodle, is there any
> chance that somebody could run a "Moodle for beginners" course?
>
> I'd be reluctant to sign up for courses using Moodle, because I know
> nothing about it and would find it difficult learning Moodle at the
> same time as learning the subject of the course - and there may be
> others like me, and maybe even potential tutors who are put off
> volunteering to run a course because they don't know how to use Moodle.
>
> So, would any of our experienced Moodle users be able to run a
> course? Maybe a 2-part course, with one part aimed at students and
> one part aimed at teachers?
>

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