The last post ended up with the basics of the student controller and views functioning to produce some simple output. The aim here is to get the entire student interface up and actually reading data from the database. It won’t be completely finished. There will be some additional extra features to add. The aim here […]
Monthly Archives: December 2010
I’m currently programming up bim2, a new version of BIM to work with Moodle 2.0. I’m wondering whether a version of BIM for WordPress might be an idea. A while ago Leigh Blackall wondered why BIM had to be inside an LMS. There were some reasons at the time. However, most no longer apply and […]
bim2 now has a working controller structure, but it doesn’t do anything. This post summarises initial attempts to implement the student controller so that it actually implements the state machine for the student interactions. It’s also the first attempt to implement some models and views with the MVC structure for bim2. This is liable to […]
So, bim2 is up and going, at least in terms of being able to create an instance of the activity within a course. The trouble is that it can’t do anything. This post starts the process of implementing the design of the user interactions with bim2. The intent is to go with a Model-View-Controller type […]
Okay, so after fixing up the naming problems with bim2 etc, it’s time to actually get the code going. To do A list of things to do once I get back online DONE mod_form.php needs to be modified to use the new editor element for Moodle 2.0Actually, this looks to have been created by a […]
I’m becoming increasingly interested in how the design of e-learning systems can be improved through insights from behaviour change literature and related work (e.g. I think game design principles have some connections with behaviour change. A while ago I started some thinking about this. The following is a summary of/reflection on Ofer Arazy, Nanda Kumar, […]
The last post covered the initial steps in starting bim2. Including the choice of the name bim2. But there is a problem. The problem It’s starting to look like the choice of bim2 as a name might not have been great. It appears Moodle may not like a digit in the name of a module. […]
The following records some of the initial steps in actually coding bim2. It includes A new name?; The new github repo for bim2; Resources for Moodle 2 module development; and Initial coding steps for bim2. A new name? bim2 is going to be very different from version 1 of bim. Beyond working for a different […]
The main long term issue in the use of BIM has been student’s creating blog posts that contain “special” characters. This is typically done when they create their post in Word and then copy and paste it into their blog. The interaction between BIM, SimplePie and database engines has not been a good one. It […]
One of the ideas proposed, or at least reportedly proposed, in Shekerjian (1990) is that the act of becoming aware that other people hold different perceptions of some task helps you think about your own strategy. I like this idea and tend to believe that being aware of diversity of opinion can help. My question […]
