Monday, April 6, 2009

diigo - a great new Delicious like Bookmark service


I'll need to come back to this after a few weeks of really benching this service. However, out of the box it simply expands what I do with delicious. All the usual tagging and sharing tools, but adds on page comments and better social networking tools. If I can get enough people from my PLN to use this, it will really take off.

Also, you can have it auto bookmark to Delicious as well. Perfect. Check it out.

http://www.diigo.com

Tabs in Moodle

I'm just experimenting with this, but looks to solve one of my number one issue with Moodle. If you've used Moodle (a fantastic open source LMS), you may have run into the problem of courses that scroll on forever. Moodle seems to be ok for a short course, but once you've grown a bit, the students seem to do nothing by scroll and scroll.

Enter Patrick Thibaudeau's tab display. Essentially this add-on allows you to roll up various modules in your course, display them in a side menu with content that breaks out along the page into tabs. Very cool.

I hope it works as easily as the good folks from Faculté Saint-Jean made it look!

Friday, April 3, 2009

2009 Canadian Moodle Moot


Not enough time to post something significant, but having a great time connection with good people down here. Check out MoodleMoot.ca for more information. If you wish to pick up the flavour of the conference, hit search.twitter.com and look for canadamoot