Monthly Archives: July 2008

Sloodle Controller Showing up for Students, part 2

I received some response to my query about the Sloodle Controller showing to students.  Here are 2 responses I got from Sloodle designers:

Re: Sloodle 0.3 Controller showing in Activities
by Peter Bloomfield – Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 02:17 AM
Everything there looks exactly as it’s meant to be. Students can see that a Controller is [...]

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Sloodle Controller Showing up for Students

The Sloodle Controller on my Moodle site is showing up for students.  It is supposed to be a teacher/administrator only tool, but I am seeing it everywhere.  My instructor for my Cyber Pedagogy course even mentioned it in her review of my online class component for the Fall semester class I will be teaching.  As [...]

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Setting Up Sloodle 0.3 on my Moodle Site

I am preparing my Moodle site for the for-credit course I am teaching Fall semester. Among many reasons for using Moodle over WebCT is that it supports Second Life integration. I have been rather confused about how to set it up. I have been especially confused about how to set up Sloodle 0.3 [...]

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Free Textbooks?

Many of us spend an absolute fortune on academic textbooks.  Today I was working on a blog about basic learning theories and stumbled upon Flat World Knowledge. 
Free Textbooks

Affordable Alternatives

Open Textbooks
It is a website that will use a Creative Commons License to allow instructors to use free textbooks for their courses; in addition, instructors can edit [...]

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