Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
Moodle is hitting Macalester College in a big way in June. First, the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) is hosting it’s first ever Moodle User Group meeting (or “MUG”) at the St. Paul, MN college. The MUG runs June 23-24, 2014 and features a packed schedule focusing on the pedagogical uses of Moodle. Immediately after the … Read more
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) is hosting its first-ever Moodle User Group meeting at Macalester College, in St. Paul, MN on June 23-24, 2014. Learn more at the MUG website or submit a response to the call for papers.
The ITS Coffee Break is back! After an extended hiatus Courtney Bentley and I have started recording new podcasts on a bimonthly basis. Check out the most recent shows: ITS Coffee Break #70: Mobile Web, Smart Watches, MOOCs, Faculty Technology Grants ITS Coffee Break #71:WordPress, IT Security Training, Google Reader Retired ITS Coffee Break #72: … Read more
Lafayette hosted Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V during the first week of January, and I have to say, I think it went pretty well. We got a lot of stuff done, including putting the finishing touches on two new tools for Moodle: Assignment ZIP (which allows you to download all of the files associated with an … Read more
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V is fast approaching, and it looks like we’re going to have quite a few attendees despite the January time frame and constricting travel budgets. With about two weeks to go until Hack/Doc Fest, we have 23 people registered for Hack/Doc Fest – 17 will be attending in person, 6 will be … Read more
The first Moodle Hack/Doc Fest was held at Lafayette College in January 2008. Two years later it returns to Lafayette for another three days of coding, documentation, and testing January 5-7, 2010. On the agenda: debugging and testing Moodle 1.9.7, experimenting with the Moodle 2.0 beta (if it’s available), and fixing bugs with Scheduler, Chat … Read more
“The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project: A Case Study” that I co-wrote is available on AcademicCommons.org. The case study looks at the efforts of a loose coalition of liberal arts colleges to transform our informal Moodle Hack/Doc Fests into a more formal organization. The case study is part of the September 2009 issue, which features a … Read more
It’s funny how college life ebbs and flows. Each of us ends up having our own rhythms based on the academic calendar, and some of them can be a little obscure. Like the clash between Firefox and Acrobat Reader that happens almost every fall. As we did last year (and the year before that), we’re … Read more
I’ve posted this to Lafayette’s Moodle Support forum, but figured I’d note it here as well: there’s a bug with Moodle that keeps it from staying in edit mode whenever you update or edit the page (e.g. adding a resource, updating an existing resource, etc.). I’m not sure what’s causing it, but I’ll be delving … Read more