The following is an abstract for a talk I’ll be giving at the 2013 Moodlemoot’AU in late June. The slides and other presentation resources will eventually be added here. Abstract The TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) framework provides one way to conceptualise the knowledge required to leverage technologies to improve learning. In proposing the TPACK […]
Category Archives: bim2
What’s good for research, must surely be good for teaching? An article on the Australian’s higher education page quotes the following advice from this policy note from the Group of 8 (an obviously non-self-serving document, of course) If Australia is to capture the full benefits of the creative, original and imaginative efforts of its researchers, […]
Next step in the development of bim v2.0 is to start the process of submitting it to CONTRIB. i.e. essentially getting out officially into the Moodle community. The following is my attempt to figure out and record the process for doing this. This was actually started a couple of months ago but then semester started, […]
The following is the first attempt to expand upon an idea that’s been bubbling along for the last few weeks. It arises from a combination of recent experiences, including Working through the institutional processes to get BIM installed on the institutional Moodle. Using BIM in my own teaching and the resulting changes (and maybe something […]
As a developer, you have to love it when someone using your code diagnoses and identifies their own problem with your code. Especially if they give you a clear and concise explanation you can use. That’s what happened with the BIM2 problem I blogged about recently. It appears I was using Moodle 2.3.4 the problem […]
The following problem with using BIM has been reported the following is a record of my attempt to recreate and fix the problem. The problem I installed BIM2 on my Moodle 2.3. The installation was successful and I even managed to create a BIM activity. There is only one problem — When I go to […]
In the course I’m currently teaching the students will be expected to keep a learning journal. They’ll be keeping this on a personal blog that they register on the course Moodle site (but not with BIMM, the institutional process to get BIM installed is underway). The following floats some initial ideas about how the “assessment” […]
Another step in getting BIM 2.0 ready for release. Addressing the current two outstanding issues prior to exploration of submitting BIM to Moodle CONTRIB (??appropriate terminology) The two tasks are Re-examine the cron requirements for bim Complete the initial gradebook integration And two new ones identified while working on the following misc fix for student […]
The third in a series of posts documenting necessary cleaning up of issues with BIM. Getting closer and closer to release of 2.0b Issues being cleaned up here include #56 – “add an activity” help text #39 – some more consideration of help text for BIM 2. #58 – getting a “do you want to […]
Building on that last bit of issue cleanup this aims to reduce the list of open BIM issues a bit more. The focus in this part will be #53 issue with question management message. #35 add support for grademax in configure. #40 complete a check on gradebook integration. #37 figure out the missing status on […]
