Art Lader

Hi, Paul,

There must be an SQL query that will set all students' email display in their profiles to "hide my email address from everyone." Or maybe a little tweaking of the profile form to make that the only choice. In a hidden field, maybe?

Just some thoughts...

-- Art

Hi, David,

Is this the same as "conditional activities" --http://docs.moodle.org/en/Talk:Roadmap?

Thanks,
Art

Hi, Susan,

I think you might be referring to conditional activities in Moodle 2.0 -- http://docs.moodle.org/en/Roadmap.

Hope that helps,
Art

Alice,

Thank you for getting back to me on this.

You are right that there is always a reason when students do not do an assignment. Have to think about that a bit. And kids do love useful feedback... For the past few minutes, have been reading about the changes that are coming to the workshop module and it looks like the submission deadline problem will not be an issue in Moodle 2.0.

Thank you for the Grown Up Digital tip. Reading that has been on my to-do list. Maybe it's time I actually read it!

Regards,
Art

If you were going to develop a blended course around this little story, what elements would you include? Assume that you have 14-15 year old students and that you are a pretty big believer in Bloom's Taxonomy. (And that you just looooove Moodle, of course.)

A merchant in Baghdad sends his servant to the marketplace for provisions. Shortly, the servant comes home white and trembling and tells him that in the marketplace he was jostled by a woman, whom he recognized as Death, and she made a threatening gesture. Borrowing the merchant's horse, he flees at top speed to Samarra, a distance of about 75 miles (125 km), where he believes Death will not find him. The merchant then goes to the marketplace and finds Death, and asks why she made the threatening gesture. She replies, "That was not a threatening gesture, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointment_in_Samarra#Explanation_of_the_novel.27s_title)

I think that I might start by asking students to read this information about the meaning of the word fate and then follow with a choice about whether or not fate really exists. I might ask the to read the Jack London story To Build a Fire and compare the importance of fate - or lack thereof - in both stories. (Maybe I would start with the Jack London story, actually.) And I might... Well, what would you do with this topic?

-- Art