MoodleMoot Oklahoma–Day 2
Today, we started the sessions with an address by Martin Dougiamas via Elluminate web conferencing software. He gave us an overview of how moodle is being used, by what types of organizations, and spent some time on the roadmap for Moodle 2.0. He took a few questions at the end of the session. The sound and video were both good, so the session was well received.
Then we got started with the planned sessions for the rest of the day. The intro sessions were all held in computer labs, so participants there were actively working with Moodle and practicing skills. These sessions were very popular as a large percentage of the conference participants are just starting with Moodle.
I was pleased to go to a Mahara workshop, because I have been experimenting with Mahara for some time but was interested in seeing how other people were using it. Two other people from my institution also attended this session, and we are going to try to set up a pilot instance for one of my classes in the fall.
I also went to a presentation on outcomes, which is another thing I really want to work on this fall. Right now, the outcomes can be set up site wide so that teachers in multiple courses can use the same outcome. However, I don’t think there are really any good reporting tools to pull out information and aggregate it across courses. So maybe we will work on that. I think that all the information should be stored in the gradebook tables, so if we can figure out how to write the queries, we should be able to aggregate the information. For general education assessment, this could be a great tool.
At the end of the day, we had a debrief and then dismissal. We hit the road home about 4:30. I enjoyed the conference very much, and I met some really nice people. I appreciate Metrotech for sponsoring this even. Maybe we will do it again next year!
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