http://blog.terrabase.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:05:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am trying to develop a top ten list of best Moodle sites. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. At the time of writing: 1. www.cheshirelifelonglearning.ac.uk (only because we implemented it!!) 2. moodle.leedscitycollege.ac.uk 3. shunsley.eriding.net/vle 4. oursubject.hud.ac.uk 5. elearning.creative-geni.us 6. learninganywhere.co.uk 7. moodle.aquinas.ac.uk 8. virtual.cornwall.ac.uk 9. moodle.davison.w-sussex.sch.uk 10. moodle.yeovil.ac.uk I shall update this list as time goes by and ... http://blog.terrabase.co.uk/?p=53 Recently we've been discussing the implementation of a new VLE for a major Government client. One of the issues raised at a recent meeting was to do with password fatigue and so I suggested using OpenID. OpenID solves the problem of password fatigue by automatically logging the user in through their ... http://blog.terrabase.co.uk/?p=52 Just a list of the current 'vaguely' technical podcasts I am listening to at the moment. I'm interested in podcasts on eLearning, software design, Internet technology and general computing, Project Management, Finance and Economics and Business. Really the struggle is to find canonical voices in each of these areas. Stackoverflow: (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/?feed=podcast) ... http://blog.terrabase.co.uk/?p=51 We are looking to include a quick reporting tool in our WebALDAS data analysis system. What we would like is for a user to be able to select an area of interest such as numbers attending a course, then select a differentiator such as Ethnicity. The tool ... http://blog.terrabase.co.uk/?p=50 We've had an interesting issue with Moodle 1.6 this week which was very hard to pin down with much searching and head scratching. One of the courses set up by a client is very, very, very long. All their resources are held in one huge course. This was the way they ... http://blog.terrabase.co.uk/?p=48 In this age of information inundation you must have a dashboard of some sort communicating 'at-a-glance' information about your daily work. There has been a lot of hype about software dashboards and all manner of tasteless devices have been implemented, often so they end up highlighting trivial information and hiding ... http://blog.terrabase.co.uk/?p=47 We've installed Windows 7 on four machines here now. One on a big Opteron server and the rest on very desperate Toshiba Portege tablet PCs. By very desperate I mean they were barely usable. From new they ran so slowly and in such a cumbersome fashion that you could have ... http://blog.terrabase.co.uk/?p=46 At Terrabase we now offer PRINCE2:2009 Project Management in isolation of software development, meaning we will offer management of anything from house builds to the development of an international software solution. In our newsletter, in order to give a brief example of a PRINCE2 principle, we gave this overview of Product ... http://blog.terrabase.co.uk/?p=45 To an outside observer it must look like we all do pretty much the same job; sit in-front of screens with keyboard and mouse and move bits of data around. This probably makes us all experts in some way for knowing what we want our computers to do, and what we ... http://blog.terrabase.co.uk/?p=44 I was listening to some podcasts recently where the contributors were talking about recruitment and how so many of us have got it wrong. The gist of the argument was that, in his company, everyone was paid the same amount for the same job. He did not allow people to ... http://blog.terrabase.co.uk/?p=43