The Draft Programme has been updated with some corrections and now includes the details of the sponsor presentations.
You can download the updated programme here -> Draft Programme - Moodlemoot Dublin 2013 - revised (966)
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2013 Draft Programme
We are delighted to publish the draft programme and schedule for the Moodlemoot Dublin 2013.
The Draft Programme is a normal PDF and includes:
- 4 day draft schedule
- Workshop descriptions
- All abstracts
You can download the programme here -> Draft Programme - Moodlemoot Dublin 2013 - revised Feb4 (399)
As mistakes can happen it is important that presenters get in contact if:
- your accepted presentation is missing
- any submitted changes have been missed
- you want to update the abstract or title or presenter names
- anything else you need to chat to us about
Registrations are still open and we are still processing invoice based registrations.
If anyone has any queries, please get in contact.
Some Updates
This is just a quick update for those attending the Moot of what is happening in the coming weeks running up to the Moot.
- This week we will be publishing the draft programme. Some timings in this are liable to change, so please use it as indicative rather than actual.
- Next week we will be adding all registered users to the Moot site and course areas so they can select their Workshops and start coordinating with other attendees. We will continue to add those who register on a daily basis.
- We aim to finalise the programme by the 31st of Jan, including the details of the various sessions.
Look forward to seeing ye all in Dublin.
Presenters – Important Notice
We are hoping to get a draft programme out this week including all the abstracts. To do this, we really need to hear back from presenters to ensure they are attending and have sorted their registration and if they need to make any changes/corrections to the abstract they submitted.
It also came to our attention that one presenter whose submission had been approved did not get the email from the system letting him know. So if you did submit a proposal and did not hear please contact us asap and we can double-check. The email may have ended up in your spam folder, so be sure to check there first.
6 weeks to go until Moodlemoot Dublin 2013
In only 6 short weeks Dublin will again play home to the Moodlemoot. Hundreds of Moodlers from Ireland, the UK and further afield will gather together in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Northwood for 4 days of relentless networking which includes
- a day of Training Workshops
- 2 days of presentations (including Pecha Kucha)
- a one day Moodle hackfest
Full details on the workshops available here -> http://moodlemoot.ie/2013-pre-moot-workshop-details/
Registrations are still open!
Registrations are still available both through online payment, and through invoicing for all options.
To register online, all you need to do is sign up to the http://moodlemoot.exordo.com/ and the register and pay online.
Full details can be found here ->http://moodlemoot.ie/2013-moot/register/
Accommodation booking
Hotel Accommodation is booked and paid for separately to the Moot tickets. We have secured some great rates with the venue and the hotel next door.
Please book your special delegate rate in the Crowne Plaza Dublin Northwood
Please book your special delegate rate in the Holiday Inn Express Dublin Airport
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Meet some members of the Moodle Team in Dublin
One of the benefits of attending a Moodlemoot is networking with other Moodlers from around the community and across the globe.
In Dublin, we are lucky to be joined by some well-known members of the Moodle Team.
Martin Dougiamas
Founder of Moodle
Martin is the founder and lead developer of Moodle. He lives in Perth, Western Australia. He has been working on Internet stuff for 23 years, and in particular, most of his experience has been in education at a tertiary level. He was webmaster of a large university since the web started, and manager of a WebCT system for some years after that. He has postgraduate degrees in Computer Science and Education plus most of a PhD entitled “The use of Open Source software to support a social constructionist epistemology of teaching and learning within Internet-based communities of reflective inquiry” (Moodle didn’t let him finish it!)
His main mission in life now is Moodle. He started it in 1999 and since then the project has been growing exponentially in terms of size and activity. Now he works from Moodle HQ each day with many different people from around the world on a ever-widening variety of things.
Helen Foster
Moodle Community Manager
Moodle.org
Helen Foster is Moodle administrator for a site with over a million registered users – moodle.org – which provides free 24-hour support for Moodle users worldwide. Helen works full-time for Moodle as Community Manager, keeping an eye on all the Moodle community sites, such as Moodle Docs and MOOCH, and tries to help ensure Moodle HQ developers understand where teachers are coming from.
Helen has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of London and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cambridge. Helen has 14 years teaching experience and has co-authored the book ‘Using Moodle, Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System’ (published by O’Reilly) which may be downloaded for free from Moodle Docs.
David Mudrak
Senior Analyst Developer
Liberec, Czech Republic
David Mudrák is Moodle core developer working at Moodle HQ team. Before that, he was ICT teacher at a high school and researcher in the field of theory of ICT education. He has been contributing to the Moodle code since 2004. David is the Czech language pack maintainer and runs the community portal http://moodle.cz.
He is the author of several Moodle components and extensions, including Workshop 2.x module, Stamp collection, Course ordering and invoicing, Subcourse module, Course contents block and AMOS. Recently, he has been mainly working on advanced grading methods architecture, 1.9 backups restore, available update notifications and automatic plugins deployment.
In his free time, he enjoys flight simulators and train traffic control games, nice food and beer.
Mary Cooch
Documentation Fairy
A relative latecomer, Mary only discovered Moodle in 2006 when her school, Our Lady’s High Preston, was investigating Virtual Learning Environments, and it wasn’t until 2008 that she was brave enough to post in the Moodle support forums under her own name. By profession a languages teacher, she has since then become an active member of the English, German and French forums and now works with Community Manager Helen Foster to ensure the documentation on docs.moodle.org is up to date for every release. She is also curator of Mount Orange, the Moodle school demo site school.demo.moodle.net.
Mary wrote the first ever book on Moodle 2 (Moodle 2 First Look ) and recently updated her popular Moodle For Teaching 7-14 Year Olds. Based at the Our Learning training centre , her hobbies include blogging, screencast making-and Moodle. Mary lives in Preston on her laptop.
Koen Roggemans
Moodle translation coordinator
Koen started using Moodle in 2003 (Moodle version 1.08!) at his school and helped with the translation of Moodle into Dutch. Koen’s experience with the friendly Moodle community and the quality of the software developed inspired him to use and help with the translation of other open source educational software. Koen is now the Dutch language pack maintainer for Moodle, Mahara and Freemind and contributes to the OpenBiblio translation.
Koen has worked on the Moodle project as a volunteer since 2004 as Moodle translation coordinator, encouraging and supporting people in translating Moodle into over a hundred languages.
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Early Bird Invoicing Extended to Dec 31st
Due to a number of requests, we are extending Early Bird pricing until the End of the year for institutional/organisational invoicing. So you have just over 2 more weeks to request an invoice.
If you want to use this method, you must email info@moodlemoot.ie with the following details:
- The Name & Emails of all those who will attend and whether they are there for the 2 or 3 days and whether to include the hackfest or not.
- The Name and Address to go on the invoice (also email address to send it to)
- The VAT Number of the organisation if applicable
- The Purchase Order number (if applicable).
We will endeavour to issue the invoices the day they are requested (within reason!).
All invoices to be paid by cheque or by bank transfer only.
** Please note, that tickets are reserved when invoiced, but are only confirmed upon the receipt of payment.
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Moodlemoot Dublin 2013 – Pre-Moot Workshop Details
On Monday 18th Feb 2013 we have four pre-conference all day workshops/training sessions. Access to these workshops are available only as part of the 3-day ticket and not available individually without attending the conference.
Taking on board feedback from the Moot this year, we have made some changes to the “pre-conference” training/workshops sessions.
Firstly, there is no entry-level “Introduction to Moodle” or “Entry level” Developer session, although if there is demand we may add this, but would need to have a lot of demand.
Secondly, each of the workshops is split into two distinct halves which means that it would be possible to go to one for the morning session and another for the afternoon if that was covering your specific interests.
We will soon confirm all of the facilitators, however we have some already confirmed as outlined below.
Note- There is also going to be a half-day hands-on developer workshop on IMS LTI but this is being held on the Thursday Hackfest session. More Details Soon.
Teaching with Moodle 2 Workshops
Facilitators: Michelle Moore (Chief Evangelist, Remote-Learner.net), Second person to be confirmed..
This workshop is aimed at teacher, lecturers, learning technologists and trainers who already have done some Moodle courses before and want to move beyond simple file storage to using more of the advanced tools in Moodle 2.
This will be structured as two distinct sessions.
Teaching with Moodle 2 Workshop 1 (morning session)
The first session will be focusing on best practice in usage of the following tools:
- Using the Glossary & Database for content storage and creation and searching
- Using Workshop for Peer review
Teaching with Moodle 2 workshop 2 (afternoon session)
This session will focus on some of the more advanced tools in Moodle including the new assignment tool
- How to plan and create a Lesson for case studies or path based learning
- Using the new Assignment tool
- Using Conditional Activities to create self-directed learning
It is preferable if you have a Moodle 2.4 running on your local machine with a number of specific plugins installed – details to be provided later, however access to a course area during the training will be provided. Any questions about your setup should be asked in the Moot forums for attendees before the workshop. No technical support of this nature will be provided during the workshop.
Course Assessment in Moodle 2 Workshops
Facilitators: Mary Cooch (Moodle.org Documentation Fairy and ICT trainer at Our Lady’s Preston), Second person to be confirmed.
This workshop is aimed at teacher, lecturers, learning technologists and trainers who already have done some Moodle courses before and want to explore the options available for graded assessment in Moodle 2.
This will be structured as two distinct sessions.
Course Assessment in Moodle 2 – Workshop 1 (morning session)
The first session will focus on the following:
- Gradebook overview
- Custom Grading Scales
- Outcomes
- Grading forum posts
- Grading Glossaries
- Grading database entries
Course Assessment in Moodle 2 – workshop 2 (afternoon session)
The second session will focus on using the following:
- Quiz – beyond MCQs
- New assignment Tool
- Customising the Gradebook
You will be required to have a Moodle 2.4 running on your local machine with a number of specific plugins installed. Support related questions about your setup and how to get this ready should be asked in the Moot forums for attendees before the workshop. Limited technical support of this nature will be provided on the morning of the workshop.
Moodle Developer Workshop
Facilitators: Mark Melia (Learning Solutions Consultant,Enovation Solutions), Second person to be confirmed.
This workshop is aimed at developers who already have done some minor Moodle changes and who understand how to set up the Moodle environment for testing. It will take attendees through developing a number of enhancements to Moodle.
First Session: (morning session)
- A new student block for MyMoodle
- A new media filter
Second Session: (afternoon session)
- A new admin report
- Another command line feature for the Moodle MOOSH Admin Tool
You will be required to have a Moodle 2.4 running on your local machine with a number of specific plugins installed. No technical support of this nature will be provided during the workshop. Any questions about your setup should be asked in the Moot forums for attendee before the workshop.
Moodle 2 Admin Workshops
Facilitators: Jonathan Moore (Chief Technical Officer, Remote-Learner.net), Second person to be confirmed.
This workshop is aimed at Moodle admins who already have done some Moodle admin before and want to understand the changes that Moodle 2 brings to the Admin, and how also how to help optimise their Moodle site.
This will be structured as two distinct sessions.
Moodle 2 Admin Workshop 1 (morning session)
The first will be focusing on the new aspects of Moodle 2 covering:
- User Management
- Enrolment management
- Course management
- Plugin Management
- Backups management
- Security
Moodle 2 Admin workshop 2 (afternoon session)
This session will focus on performance related aspects of Moodle 2 including:
- The hosting application layer (Web server, Database)
- The different server options for hosting Moodle
- Performance testing
- Typical areas which affect performance
- Performance tweaking
You will be required to have a Moodle 2.4 running on your local machine with a number of specific plugins installed. No technical support of this nature will be provided during the workshop. Any questions about your setup should be asked in the Moot forums for attendee before the workshop.
Submissions Update
Thank you to everyone who submitted their proposal for a presentation or infographic.
We have just over 70 submissions and the programme committee is going through the submission evaluating them – we are more than half way at this stage.
We hope to let presenters know if they the proposals has been accepted by November 26th.
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Early Bird Registration Open for Moodlemoot Dublin 2013
We are delighted to announce that registrations are now open for the upcoming Moodlemoot Dublin 2013, being held on Feb 18-21.
Reserve your place at the Moodlemoot Dublin 2013 and join hundreds of Moodlers from around the world for four days of learning, networking and development.
Registration provides access to the panels, workshops, presentations, keynote addresses, meals (Coffee breaks and lunch) for each day that you are registered.
Early Bird Registration
There are a number of ticket options available for the Moodlemoot – all options include attendance at the Gala Dinner on Feb 19th 2013.
Below are the Early Bird prices whicha re available until December 14th 2012. For full details of pricing please check our information page.
All below ticket prices include VAT @23% and include a 3% card booking fee.
| Moodlemoot Tickets | Early Bird (Closes 14th Dec ) |
| 2 Day Ticket (19th, 20th) | €315 |
| 2 Day Ticket + Hackfest (19th, 20th + 21st) | €440 |
| 3 Day Ticket (18th, 19th, 20th | €455 |
| 3 Day Ticket + Hackfest (18th, 19th, 20th + 21st) | €580 |
For online payment with Credit Cards - Click Here -
Invoice registration is available for institutions and organisations.
Please contact us with the following information and we will draw up the invoice.
- Your organisation details (Billing/Contact Name, Address, VAT number, Billing Email)
- Full names & emails of those attending and which ticket each person needs
Registration is confirmed upon receipt of payment.
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