Random Quote
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Moodle 1.9 Book
Awhile ago I was contacted by Packt Publishing about reviewing a copy of Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development. Of course I said yes - note to other publishers I like freebies and will review for you - it took awhile to get the book as an older version was mistakenly sent.
I finally recieved my copy of the current edition the other day and I’m sitting in Starbucks right now reading it. I’m planning on getting the review written sometime within the next 10 days or so. Hope someone finds it useful.





JMac wrote 40 words on Saturday Oct 11, 2008 at 10:27 PM
The deeper I get into Moodle, it seems as if build 1.9.2 has some pretty major issues. Hope they can be fixed with the next update.
Don’t know if that affects your review of the book or not, though.
-JMac
Sean. wrote 29 words on Sunday Oct 12, 2008 at 07:42 AM
Jmac,
I’m going to review the book, not MOODLE itself so I will be ignoring any issues I have with moodle and possibly save them for a future post.