Moodle Magic: Make It Happen

Hello fellow Moodlers,

Three days ago I meet online a really innovative and creative Moodler. Her name is Laurie Korte. Laurie is the author of a highly recommended book with the title, Moodle Magic, Make it Happen.

About Moodle Magic
These are amazing times for the Internet and online learning. We are seeing a rapidly increasing commitment to internet-based learning from teachers, students, and institutions of all kinds. Online learning is being used to increase flexibility and communication within existing courses and to enable courses that could never exist before. Moodles have been implemented for users at all age levels. Online classroom are here NOW! Colleges and Universities offer Distance Learning NOW! There are even Virtual High Schools NOW! Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. It is a learning management system that lets you provide documents, graded assignments, quizzes, discussion forums and more. In this book, you will learn some tips and tricks to using Moodle to expand your classroom's virtual learning environment.

About the Author
Laurie Korte is a Technology Integration Specialist at Northbrook School District 28. She is a passionate Moodler and excited about making new technology available to everyone. For more information on Laurie, Moodle and what amazing things you can do with a little Moodle training, go to http://moodlemeet.ning.com

Moodlers' Reviews
By Jeffrey R. Anson "beginning moodler" (Kalamazoo, Michigan United States)
Moodle really is magic
As a moodle beginner, I found Laurie's book informative and easy to use. It is very easy to follow, and I am enjoying creating new moodles for both students and staff to use. I'd like to see her expand with Moodle Magic Intermediate, or Moodle Magic using specific modules. If you're new to moodle, this is a great book to help get you started.

By J. Meierdirks
A must-have resource!
This easy-to-read manual provides step-by-step directions for creating courses using the latest in online learning. Moodle is fast becoming an invaluable tool for educators and anyone wanting to expand learning beyond the classroom walls. An excellent resource for school libraries and technology coordinators to help students move into the 21st century online learning experience.

By Lorijo Metz "Lorijo"
You don't need magic to use this book!
Moodle Magic is precise, detailed and easy-to-use. Korte's step by step instructions make creating moodles simple even for non-teachers and those not technologically at ease.

By M. LaCerra
Tech Taught Easily
Moodle Magic is helpful to anyone who is getting started with this technology. It's clear organization makes it easy to use. Having this book while creating and working with Moodle allows the user to have a 'hands-on' tool with them right along side the computer. This book would be useful for resource centers at schools which use Moodle. Teachers need a tool like this!

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Moodle Free E-Book

For an open source software we need a free e-book!

• E-book

Using Moodle - Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System by Jason Cole and Helen Foster is published by O'Reilly as part of the Community Press series.

The first edition of the book, written by Jason Cole and released in July 2005, is based on Moodle 1.4. The second edition, released in November 2007, has been updated to cover all the features in Moodle 1.8, such as the new roles and permissions system, blogs, messaging and the database module.

Book download

The second edition of Using Moodle is now available for download as a zipped PDF file:

• Using Moodle (approx 4MB)

Thanks to members of the worldwide Moodle user community for their discussion and documentation contributions, many of which have been included in the book.

Resource: (http://docs.moodle.org/)

Moodle Resources

Videos

• How to start a course

This tutorial guides you through the basic steps of creating an online tutorial in Moodle LMS. To view the full length tutorial go to http://www.moodletutorials.org

• Tip on how to create a homepage

Use 'unseen'resources to make your course homepage look more like a regular website

• Theme for Category

In this tutorial, we learn how to set a category theme which will apply to all sub-categories and courses in Moodle 1.9. To view the full size video, go to www.moodletutorials.org

• Tutorial in Spanish

Introducción a la plataforma Moodle, ésta es una Bienvenida a la plataforma Moodle del la Universidad Mayor de San Simón

Moodle Books

Are you looking for a book about Moodle?
If yes, the only thing that you have to do is to visit Moodle Books database, which contains a variety of books and manuals, for both teachers and administrators, written by members of the Moodle community.

It should be noted that when you buy a book from the Moodle Books database, you're helping support Moodle development, as a percentage of all sales goes to the Moodle Trust