I had never had any formal training with MOODLE (nor Claroline), but I happen to be the de facto system adminitrator of both MMA LMS (Learning Management Systems — MOODLE & Claroline). That’s why I was very happy when I received an email invite from CSB’s CLCIR about their Online Teaching Seminar Workshop, and immediately signed-up for the first batch, which started today and will run until the last Saturday of this month. I got so excited with the seminar, that I managed to upgrade my current MOODLE installation from version 1.8 to 1.9.2 last night — this was planned months ago, but never found time to do it.

I was surprised to see that the seminar workshop facilitator is Mr. Tony Ingles, a fellow CSB faculty (SMS) and a TurfSitePH.net client — we had been communicating for such a long time (mostly via email), and today was the first time we had met face-to-face. Also, Ferdy Raymundo is my classmate for this seminar series.

Of all the many beautiful things I learned from Tony this morning, one thing got stucked into my mind: “MOODLE was created by genius people, for stupid people.” So true! MOODLE was beautifuly designed and executed that it is so fool-proof and complete (magalit na ang mga loyal sa Claroline). The seminar was designed for first time MOODLE users/teachers — being teachers, we got to experience how to become a student in MOODLE. We were asked to play around with stuff that you can do in MOODLE, and the first thing I did was to edit my profile — I actually added my pic there. Come the time Tony showed us what a teacher see’s in the MOODLE, my classmates were surprised to see my face beside my name .. hehehe .. I am really looking forward to our next session.

Oh, another thing that made me happy this morning, the seminar workshop was done at B308 — all of the PCs are running Linux

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To promote the interest of using MOODLE as a classroom extension, I was able to gain some guts and formed the Philippine MOODLE Users Group at Yahoo!Groups (since there is not a single brave soul that attempted to promote the use of MOODLE here in the Philippines).

If you wish to join the mailing list, please feel free to email me personally via robert.reyes@gmail.com or visit http://groups.google.com/group/philmoodle

You may now also join in the forums website http://www.philmoodle.info

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If you’re a faculty member of the DLS-CSB Multimedia Arts Program (especially if you belong to the Web Track), I wish to invite you to test the latest version of MOODLE which is online at http://moodle.csbsdamma.org

Once you had created your user account, please take time to advise me via email (robert.reyes@gmail.com) so that I may promote you as a Course Creator in the system.

Thanks & enjoy computing!

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