I’ve been asked to write a couple of guest blog postings for Ian Usher’s Changing the Game? blog regarding my work as an e-learning consultant for Great Marlow School, my company’s longest client. Ian is the Buckinghamshire County Council E-Learning Coordinator and we were both visiting Great Marlow School yesterday and I got to demo the latest version and he gave me some great feedback - the blogging is a great opportunity and hopefully will encourage me to keep up the posts on this site and the NetCarrel blog.
These guest posts will document the imminent relaunch of the school website and VLE after a couple years of proper use. Moodle is the core element here and its aesthetic makeover is the biggest change, but I’ll also document the use of external web tools to make updating and running Moodle as a proper public website as easy and slick as possible. It’s based around some very customised intranet pages for staff to update their news, calendar and photos for the website in two clicks, some excellent web tools to manipulate this data and present it out on a good looking Moodle install.
Most other people I’ve done Moodle work with want it stripped down to it’s bare essentials, my posts will explain how I’ve managed to go the opposite route and cram in as many useful resources and features as possible without relying on anything that can’t be easily swapped out or edited by not too technical staff. It’s not cutting edge stuff, just using some good resources to keep a school in touch with contemporary practice in web design/development.
Will replicate and expand the postings on this site.
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