If you have a little time, please go through sites on http://moodle.org/sites and rate them according to whether you like them or not (it's a new feature).
My own criteria is that they should be good examples of how Moodle can be used but your criteria may differ - I don't mind. Yes, you can vote for your own site if you want (but it takes three positive votes to get listed as a cool site!).
Martin,
This is a gigantic task! I want to be fair but at the same time I can't afford to go to EVERY site
I'd love our site to be voted too, so can I lobby?
Anyway, I'll try to visit a few....
This is a gigantic task! I want to be fair but at the same time I can't afford to go to EVERY site
I'd love our site to be voted too, so can I lobby?
Anyway, I'll try to visit a few....
Don't worry! I was not suggesting going through all of them! 
Any at all, though probably those in your own country or area of interest would be most interesting to look at ... if we have a lot of people voting it'll all work out in the wash!
And by the way, if you hit a bad site (that isn't even Moodle for example, mark it bad, thanks!)
Any at all, though probably those in your own country or area of interest would be most interesting to look at ... if we have a lot of people voting it'll all work out in the wash!
And by the way, if you hit a bad site (that isn't even Moodle for example, mark it bad, thanks!)
Lovely touch Martin, I've already done as you suggested Some pwople will be happy. I did find that some of the links were dead though... the top Vietnamese for example. Is there a place to report these to?
I did find that some of the links were dead though... the top Vietnamese for example. Is there a place to report these to?
I just gave them a thumbs down. Perhaps an additional
icon may be useful to differentiate between bad sites (subjective opinion) and dead sites (objective).
Darren
I just gave them a thumbs down. Perhaps an additional
icon may be useful to differentiate between bad sites (subjective opinion) and dead sites (objective).Darren
Just mark them down, I'll make really bad ones hidden from display and the editors can pick them up with an occasional manual sweep.
Yes, me!
Let me know and I'll investigate and remove if neccessary.
By the way, where is your presenter Biog for the Moot? <Rant Rant Rant!!!>
Sean K Beardie
Let me know and I'll investigate and remove if neccessary.
By the way, where is your presenter Biog for the Moot? <Rant Rant Rant!!!>
Sean K Beardie
If you go into editing mode on those pages, Sean, you'll see new info to help you decide what needs deleting. 
Martin, after voting I'm thrown back to my country of origin... is there any way to keep me in the country where i was at? for example, i was voting for a moodle site in malaysia and i was thrown back to the uae after voting... [insert political joke]
This should be fixed now...
Obviously there is alot of voting to be done and I cant do it in one hit :D
Is there a way you can make it so that once a site has been voted for I no longer have the option of voting for it again?
Cheers
Check it out now.
Very cool indeed, Martin !!
Just curious, could this voting system be used inside a regular Moodle course? Do it needs special software installed? I suppose it is similar to a Choice, but the icons are cool!!
- Enrique -
Just curious, could this voting system be used inside a regular Moodle course? Do it needs special software installed? I suppose it is similar to a Choice, but the icons are cool!!
- Enrique -
It's just some custom scripting and a new database table in this site. It's been evolving slowly over a long time. There's a lot of management pages and icons that only the registry admins can see.
It's pretty specific to what it's being used for now ... I can't see it being used in Moodle.
It's pretty specific to what it's being used for now ... I can't see it being used in Moodle.
Oh! Moodle is not only about teaching and grades.
I do see the students voting which topic in the course they prefer most (or hate), or the best submitted assignment. Nothing too serious (we already have grades for that), just for fun.
And Moodle is also used within the University for non-teaching social network. I see our Movies group setting a contest for the top 100 best movies and that kind of stuff. Elections between more than the handful of options that Choice allows (and positive and negative voting).
But nothing too serious, all that can be done in other ways.
- Enrique -
I do see the students voting which topic in the course they prefer most (or hate), or the best submitted assignment. Nothing too serious (we already have grades for that), just for fun.
And Moodle is also used within the University for non-teaching social network. I see our Movies group setting a contest for the top 100 best movies and that kind of stuff. Elections between more than the handful of options that Choice allows (and positive and negative voting).
But nothing too serious, all that can be done in other ways.
- Enrique -
Extending choice would be the best way forward there ... my sites registration code is not written in a generalisable way.
Is it possible to add projects that we stumble across to that list or do the projects themselves need to volunteer?
Hmm, actually one of the projects I was going to suggest (Moodle in use at Oxford University for continuing education) seems to have gone offline in the last couple of days, so maybe it's best if they put themselves forward after all.
Though it probably wouldn't be hard to craft a Google 'hack' that returns all the Moodle instances running under the ac.uk domain. That might be an interesting counterpart to this opt-in list.
Here's a first attempt:
Hi David,
Some of the Oxford ContEd people are coming to the moot in August. When they contacted me last week it was the first I'd heard about Moodle use in ox.ac.uk...as they are all Bodington bods here (or so I thought).
Sean K beardie
Some of the Oxford ContEd people are coming to the moot in August. When they contacted me last week it was the first I'd heard about Moodle use in ox.ac.uk...as they are all Bodington bods here (or so I thought).
Sean K beardie
Yes, that's what I thought too, but I recently followed up an interesting post to one of the VLE mailing lists I'm on and found that Moodle site, and some info about the JISC eLISA project which has some people from Department of Educational Studies & Learning Technologies Group at Oxford working on it.
They are apparently going to use either Bodington or Moodle for their project, but perhaps significantly chose Moodle for managing their team communication and collaboration online, and mention Moodle five times more than Bodington on their website.
I wonder if the uses are connected or if each team independantly arrived at Moodle as a possible solution.
Well, we have a presenter from ox uni computing services coming along to talk about using Moodle and Bodington together. And I've been speaking with someone at Oxford Brookes University (big WebCT Users) about Moodle recently...so Moodle is definitely becoming higher profile in UK HE.
Sean K Beardie
Sean K Beardie