Hardware
Debabrata Panda, Arvind Maheshwari, Debabrata Panda
Today's IT environment is very complex, encompassing a myriad of technologies and middleware platforms. Many organizations have large and heterogeneous middleware platforms that power their enterprise applications and it is often a real challenge for administrators to meet agreed service levels and minimize downtime. Oracle Enterprise Manager allows administrators to manage the complete lifecycle of an entire application infrastructure for middleware and SOA applications.This book will help you kick-start the setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control and master all aspects of middleware management supported by Oracle Enterprise Manager.This book, written by senior members of the Oracle team serves as the only hands on guide to provisioning middleware and implementing proactive monitoring to maximize application performance and compliance using Oracle Enterprise Manager.The book starts with an introduction to the challenges faced by middleware administrators in their everyday life, and how Oracle Enterprise Manager helps solve those challenges. This book will help you manage your middleware infrastructure and applications effectively and efficiently using Oracle Enterprise Manager. By following the practical examples in this book you will learn to proactively monitor your production middleware applications running on Oracle Application Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA suite (such as Oracle BPEL Process manager), Oracle Server Bus, and Oracle Coherence. You will also learn different aspects to proactive monitoring and alert notifications, service level and incident management, diagnostics for production applications, lifecycle automation using out-of-the-box deployment procedures, and patching mechanisms. This book also helps you to master best practices for managing your middleware and SOA applications for optimal service performance and reduced down time.
Minikomputer Onion Omega 2. Internet rzeczy i inne zastosowania
Wolfram Donat
Minikomputer Onion Omega 2 jest jedną z ciekawszych propozycji na rynku małych urządzeń jednopłytkowych (SBC). Został opracowany do zastosowań w internecie rzeczy. Działa pod kontrolą jednej z odmian Linuksa, systemu OpenWrt. Ma niewielkie rozmiary (43x26x10 mm), jego procesor MIPS pracuje z częstotliwością 580 MHz, może obsłużyć pamięć RAM do 256 MB i czytnik kart SD. Radzi sobie z kilkoma różnymi protokołami łączności, dzięki czemu bez trudu można go podłączyć do zwykłego komputera i komunikować się z nim za pomocą konsoli wyświetlanej w przeglądarce. Możliwości "cebuli" można łatwo rozszerzać za pomocą dostępnych płytek i modułów. To świetna propozycja dla każdego amatora elektroniki i robotyki! Ta książka jest wyjątkowo zwięzłym, a przy tym przystępnie napisanym i praktycznym podręcznikiem, dzięki któremu błyskawicznie uzyskasz wiedzę potrzebną do uruchomienia minikomputera Onion Omega 2 i rozpoczęcia pracy. Aby wykonać opisane tu projekty, potrzebujesz minikomputera Omega 2, modułu zasilającego, rozszerzenia przekaźnikowego i rozszerzenia z ekranem OLED. Przyda się też podstawowa znajomość Linuksa i Pythona. Dzięki książce w krótkim czasie poszerzysz horyzonty, zdobędziesz kilka nowych umiejętności, nauczysz się pracy z komponentami sprzętowymi - i będziesz gotów, by w pełni samodzielnie przygotować i wykonać kolejne projekty z zastosowaniem tego świetnego minikomputera. Najważniejsze zagadnienia: montaż i konfiguracja minikomputera konsola Onion Omegi zastosowanie Pythona własne projekty: "Tweetująca cebula" i "Światłolub" Onion Omega 2: pasjonująca droga do internetu rzeczy!
Modern Data Architecture on AWS. A Practical Guide for Building Next-Gen Data Platforms on AWS
Behram Irani
Many IT leaders and professionals are adept at extracting data from a particular type of database and deriving value from it. However, designing and implementing an enterprise-wide holistic data platform with purpose-built data services, all seamlessly working in tandem with the least amount of manual intervention, still poses a challenge.This book will help you explore end-to-end solutions to common data, analytics, and AI/ML use cases by leveraging AWS services. The chapters systematically take you through all the building blocks of a modern data platform, including data lakes, data warehouses, data ingestion patterns, data consumption patterns, data governance, and AI/ML patterns. Using real-world use cases, each chapter highlights the features and functionalities of numerous AWS services to enable you to create a scalable, flexible, performant, and cost-effective modern data platform.By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with all the necessary architectural patterns and be able to apply this knowledge to efficiently build a modern data platform for your organization using AWS services.
ModSecurity 2.5. Prevent web application hacking with this easy to use guide
Magnus Mischel, Brian Rectanus
With more than 67% of web servers running Apache and web-based attacks becoming more and more prevalent, web security has become a critical area for web site managers. Most existing tools work on the TCP/IP level, failing to use the specifics of the HTTP protocol in their operation. Mod_security is a module running on Apache, which will help you overcome the security threats prevalent in the online world.A complete guide to using ModSecurity, this book will show you how to secure your web application and server, and does so by using real-world examples of attacks currently in use. It will help you learn about SQL injection, cross-site scripting attacks, cross-site request forgeries, null byte attacks, and many more so that you know how attackers operate.Using clear, step-by-step instructions this book starts by teaching you how to install and set up ModSecurity, before diving into the rule language with examples. It assumes no prior knowledge of ModSecurity, so as long as you are familiar with basic Linux administration, you can start to learn right away.Real-life case studies are used to illustrate the dangers on the Web today ñ you will for example learn how the recent worm that hit Twitter works, and how you could have used ModSecurity to stop it in its tracks. The mechanisms behind these and other attacks are described in detail, and you will learn everything you need to know to make sure your server and web application remain unscathed on the increasingly dangerous web. Have you ever wondered how attackers figure out the exact web server version running on a system? They use a technique called HTTP fingerprinting, and you will learn about this in depth and how to defend against it by flying your web server under a false flag.The last part of the book shows you how to really lock down a web application by implementing a positive security model that only allows through requests that conform to a specific, pre-approved model, and denying anything that is even the slightest bit out of line.
MODx Web Development. Build dynamic websites with MODx PHP application framework and CMS
Antano Solar John, Ryan Thrash
MODx is a content management system and PHP web application framework rolled into one. With the ease of a CMS and the extendibility of a framework, MODx allows you to develop professional-looking, intricate websites with its easy-to-use interface and flexible architecture. MODx provides reusable code fragments called snippets, most of which are so generic that, without any modification, they can serve multiple functionalities. The generic nature of the snippets makes it possible to get the perfect customization that is so hard in other CMS.This book will get web developers up-and-running with MODx. With step-by-step examples and illustrative screenshots, you will be guided through installation, configuration, and customization. By the end of the book, you will have created a powerful, dynamic website by using the individual elements of MODx, without the need for programming know-how.Starting with a walk-through of how to install MODx, you will quickly learn how to develop your site without having to use any programming language. Logical, step-by-step instructions will show you how to create your own unique site by adding and editing documents using the inbuilt TinyMCE editor. You will change the look and feel of your site by creating your own templates using HTML, CSS, and widgets. By following the example of a blog site, you will learn how to extend your templates to allow rich user interactions through comments, posts, and forms. The book teaches a few code snippets such as Ditto and Wayfinder in detail. These powerful and flexible snippets will enable you to add multiple functionalities to your site. The book will also introduce you to many more snippets that will help you build some of the commonly required web functionalities such as forums and image galleries. You will manage your users with authentication and authorization and make your site user-friendly with user groups, forums, and the use of PHx notations to embed logic in templates.Through following this easy-to-use, step-by-step guide you will, by the end of the book, have a fully functional, feature-rich MODx site with professional-looking, dynamic web pages that are totally customizable.
Montaż komputera PC. Ćwiczenia praktyczne
Bartosz Danowski, Andrzej Pyrchla
Zmontuj komputer swoich marzeń! Jak przygotować się do montażu? Jak złożyć wszystkie komponenty? Jak dokonać pierwszego uruchomienia? W dzisiejszych czasach możesz stać się właścicielem nowego komputera na dwa sposoby: możesz kupić komputer już złożony oraz gotowy do pracy lub skonfigurować i zmontować własny, całkowicie dopasowany do Twoich potrzeb. Drugi wariant ma zdecydowanie więcej zalet, bo sam dobierasz cały sprzęt -- optymalnie do planowanych zastosowań komputera i Twoich wysokich wymagań. Jednak nie ma róży bez kolców -- to rozwiązanie wymaga od Ciebie dodatkowej wiedzy technicznej. Dzięki książce, którą masz przed sobą, to zadanie okaże się łatwiejsze, niż myślisz! Dowiesz się, w jaki sposób wybrać odpowiednie komponenty, a następnie poprawnie je zmontować i optymalnie skonfigurować. Ogromnym atutem tej książki są zdjęcia, dokładnie obrazujące każdy z etapów montażu. Ponadto zdobędziesz tu informacje na temat procedury pierwszego uruchomienia komputera oraz typowych problemów, które możesz wtedy napotkać. Jeżeli chcesz poznać tajniki sprawnego składania komputerów, to znalazłeś idealny podręcznik! Wybór komponentów Przygotowanie do montażu Montaż komponentów: obudowa, płyta główna, napędy, karta graficzna Zapewnienie zasilania Sposoby na uporządkowanie wnętrza komputera Przygotowanie do pierwszego uruchomienia Pierwsze uruchomienie i problemy, na jakie możesz natrafić Szybko i profesjonalnie złóż własny komputer!
Montaż komputera PC. Ćwiczenia praktyczne
Bartosz Danowski, Andrzej Pyrchla
Zmontuj komputer swoich marzeń! Jak przygotować się do montażu? Jak złożyć wszystkie komponenty? Jak dokonać pierwszego uruchomienia? W dzisiejszych czasach możesz stać się właścicielem nowego komputera na dwa sposoby: możesz kupić komputer już złożony oraz gotowy do pracy lub skonfigurować i zmontować własny, całkowicie dopasowany do Twoich potrzeb. Drugi wariant ma zdecydowanie więcej zalet, bo sam dobierasz cały sprzęt -- optymalnie do planowanych zastosowań komputera i Twoich wysokich wymagań. Jednak nie ma róży bez kolców -- to rozwiązanie wymaga od Ciebie dodatkowej wiedzy technicznej. Dzięki książce, którą masz przed sobą, to zadanie okaże się łatwiejsze, niż myślisz! Dowiesz się, w jaki sposób wybrać odpowiednie komponenty, a następnie poprawnie je zmontować i optymalnie skonfigurować. Ogromnym atutem tej książki są zdjęcia, dokładnie obrazujące każdy z etapów montażu. Ponadto zdobędziesz tu informacje na temat procedury pierwszego uruchomienia komputera oraz typowych problemów, które możesz wtedy napotkać. Jeżeli chcesz poznać tajniki sprawnego składania komputerów, to znalazłeś idealny podręcznik! Wybór komponentów Przygotowanie do montażu Montaż komponentów: obudowa, płyta główna, napędy, karta graficzna Zapewnienie zasilania Sposoby na uporządkowanie wnętrza komputera Przygotowanie do pierwszego uruchomienia Pierwsze uruchomienie i problemy, na jakie możesz natrafić Szybko i profesjonalnie złóż własny komputer!
Montaż komputera PC. Ilustrowany przewodnik. Wydanie II
Adam Chabiński, Bartosz Danowski
Poznaj najważniejsze elementy komputera Naucz się samodzielnie wybierać sprzęt Dowiedz się, jak złożyć komputer i zainstalować system Nie istnieje jeden doskonały model komputera osobistego, który byłby w stanie zaspokoić niejednokrotnie bardzo odmienne potrzeby różnych użytkowników. Choć każdy chciałby mieć jak najlepszy sprzęt, innych osiągów będą spodziewali się graficy, inżynierowie czy naukowcy, a innych gracze, programiści, redaktorzy czy księgowe. Nie wszystkim potrzebne są też niezwykle wydajne i kosztujące krocie maszyny, na które starają się namówić nabywców sprzedawcy sprzętu. Nie każdy też uważa popularne ostatnio laptopy za najlepsze i najtańsze rozwiązanie. Czy jesteś zatem skazany na dyktat "mądrzejszych" od siebie sprzedawców, poszukiwanie rady u bardziej doświadczonych osób lub konieczność wyboru gotowego modelu spośród bardzo ogólnej oferty dużych firm komputerowych? Nie, ponieważ możesz skorzystać z wiedzy zawartej w książce "Montaż komputera PC. Ilustrowany przewodnik. Wydanie II" . Dzięki niej poznasz budowę współczesnych pecetów i wykorzystywane w nich technologie, a ponadto nauczysz się określać swoje potrzeby i w zależności od nich dobierać komponenty zestawu. Dowiesz się, na co należy zwracać szczególną uwagę podczas planowania zakupu komputera dostosowanego do indywidualnych potrzeb. Składanie własnego komputera od podstaw przestanie być czymś magicznym, a ustawienia BIOS-u nie będą już sprawiać problemów. Pozbędziesz się też obaw przed samodzielną rozbudową i drobnymi naprawami swojego "składaka" oraz nauczysz się instalować system operacyjny i odpowiednie sterowniki urządzeń. Podstawy architektury komputerów PC Dobór i zakup odpowiednich komponentów Niezbędne narzędzia i warsztat pracy Montaż komponentów i ich łączenie Uruchamianie sprzętu i rozwiązywanie problemów Konfiguracja ustawień BIOS-u Instalacja systemu operacyjnego i sterowników Spraw, aby samodzielne składanie komputera było dla Ciebie czystą przyjemnością!
Montaż komputera PC. Ilustrowany przewodnik. Wydanie II
Adam Chabiński, Bartosz Danowski
Poznaj najważniejsze elementy komputera Naucz się samodzielnie wybierać sprzęt Dowiedz się, jak złożyć komputer i zainstalować system Nie istnieje jeden doskonały model komputera osobistego, który byłby w stanie zaspokoić niejednokrotnie bardzo odmienne potrzeby różnych użytkowników. Choć każdy chciałby mieć jak najlepszy sprzęt, innych osiągów będą spodziewali się graficy, inżynierowie czy naukowcy, a innych gracze, programiści, redaktorzy czy księgowe. Nie wszystkim potrzebne są też niezwykle wydajne i kosztujące krocie maszyny, na które starają się namówić nabywców sprzedawcy sprzętu. Nie każdy też uważa popularne ostatnio laptopy za najlepsze i najtańsze rozwiązanie. Czy jesteś zatem skazany na dyktat "mądrzejszych" od siebie sprzedawców, poszukiwanie rady u bardziej doświadczonych osób lub konieczność wyboru gotowego modelu spośród bardzo ogólnej oferty dużych firm komputerowych? Nie, ponieważ możesz skorzystać z wiedzy zawartej w książce "Montaż komputera PC. Ilustrowany przewodnik. Wydanie II" . Dzięki niej poznasz budowę współczesnych pecetów i wykorzystywane w nich technologie, a ponadto nauczysz się określać swoje potrzeby i w zależności od nich dobierać komponenty zestawu. Dowiesz się, na co należy zwracać szczególną uwagę podczas planowania zakupu komputera dostosowanego do indywidualnych potrzeb. Składanie własnego komputera od podstaw przestanie być czymś magicznym, a ustawienia BIOS-u nie będą już sprawiać problemów. Pozbędziesz się też obaw przed samodzielną rozbudową i drobnymi naprawami swojego "składaka" oraz nauczysz się instalować system operacyjny i odpowiednie sterowniki urządzeń. Podstawy architektury komputerów PC Dobór i zakup odpowiednich komponentów Niezbędne narzędzia i warsztat pracy Montaż komponentów i ich łączenie Uruchamianie sprzętu i rozwiązywanie problemów Konfiguracja ustawień BIOS-u Instalacja systemu operacyjnego i sterowników Spraw, aby samodzielne składanie komputera było dla Ciebie czystą przyjemnością!
Michael Churchward, Jonathan Moore
Moodle gives you the power to create and customize feature-rich plug-ins. If you can write Moodle plug-ins, you can make it do just about anything. From making the site easier to administer, to new features, to completely changing the way it looks; plug-ins are the method Moodle offers to customize and extend its functionality. This book will show you how to build all sorts of Moodle plug-ins: admin plug-ins, Blocks, Activities, Grading components, Reports, Fliters that change the way your site works and looks. You will develop standard Moodle plug-ins such as Activities, Filters, and Blocks by creating functioning code that you can execute in your own Moodle installation. Writing modular plug-ins for Moodle will be a large focus of this book.This book will take you inside Moodle and provide you with the ability to develop code the “Moodle way”.This book will expose you to all of the core code functions in Moodle, in a progressive, understandable way. You will learn what libraries are available, what the API calls are, how it is structured and how it can be expanded beyond the plug-in system.You will begin by getting an understanding of the basic architecture that Moodle uses to operate in. Next you will build your first plug-in; a block. You will carry on building other Moodle plug-ins, gaining knowledge of the “Moodle way” of coding, before plunging deeper into the API and inner libraries. Lastly, you will learn how to integrate Moodle with other systems using a variety of methods.When you have completed, you will have a solid understanding of Moodle programming and knowledge of how to extend its functionality in whatever way you want.
Paul Taylor, Moodle Trust
Educators use the Moodle web application to create effective online learning sites. Creating such learning environments that suit Design and Technology subjects requires understanding and implementation of both basic and advanced Moodle features.This book takes a detailed look at Moodle features with examples of how to fully support the Design and Technology curricula using Moodle. It will guide you to incorporate specific modules and blocks to enhance learning as well as allow detailed tracking of performance by using formative and summative assessment tools with ease.We start with setting up a very basic Moodle course for Design and Technology, and then set up some basic resources and some interactive material. You will customize your own courses and create a course for each of the key areas of the DT subjects and add material to them. We will create some basic reporting and assessment tools and enhance the look of the course. We will use Moodle's detailed and sophisticated gradebook to assess your student s ' learning progress in activities from an assignment to an offline activity. Then we will support students in designing a product or trying a new recipe in food technology in market research to find out exactly what the public wants in relation to their product, by designing a questionnaire. We will allow product design or resistant material students use the HTML features of the questionnaire module to incorporate images into the questions to make it clearer to respondents what it is they are trying to make and sell.We will allow students in construction to gather and organize their research material in a great deal of detail and also allow them to better understand their target market and the materials used in their construction through detailed questioning. We will allow food technology students to discuss and receive constructive feedback on food products that contribute to health issues that will enable them to make informed decisions and therefore better quality products. Then we explore several components within Moodle's core functionality and some third-party sources to display the progress of the student's work and development. We then have an overview of the different design portfolios available. Finally we look at additional ways to enhance the teaching and learning of D ' T with Moodle using third-party modules and add-ons.
Jeff Stanford, Moodle Trust
That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here.This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment.This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.
Vanesa S. Olsen, Vanesa Soledad Olsen, Moodle...
Moodle is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. But what does it have to offer to the children with special educational needs who want a fun, inspiring, interactive, and informative learning experience? Moodle 1.9 empowers educators achieve all these set of rich experiences with many related activities - this book shows you how!This book offers solutions to developing interactive courses and therapies for children with special education needs who are between the age group of 5 to 10 years. It teaches to combine Moodle 1.9 with the opportunities offered by Web 2.0, free and commercial software, and general purpose hardware devices. This book will guide the reader step-by-step in using many different tools to create exciting experiences to offer great motivation to children with special educational needs, considering the opportunities for online education.This book will help the reader to build interactive and rich online content oriented to children with special educational needs using different techniques and open source tools. It teaches you to create exercises as if you were playing with children at the school, the zoo, the beach, the supermarket, a birthday party, an aquarium, a farm, at the shopping, a circus or at home. You will be able to work with drawings, music, sounds, videos, photographs and text, and you will combine all these pieces into nice experiences for children who need to find extra motivation to improve their learning skills.Besides, it will teach you to take advantage of general purpose, non-expensive hardware like gamepads, joysticks, digital pens also known as pen-sketches, multi-touch screens, netbooks and touchpads. The usage of some of these hardware devices combined with visually rich activities usually offer children an extra motivation to focus on solving the exercises.
Moodle 1.9 Multimedia. Create and share multimedia learning materials in your Moodle courses
Moodle Trust, Jo?É?íÂ!GBPo Pedro Soares Fernandes, Joao...
In today's world, multimedia can provide a more engaging experience for learners. You can embed your own audio, link to pages off-site, or pull a YouTube video into your course. You can use feature-rich quizzes that allow you to assess your students, or provide them with tools and feedback to test their own knowledge. All these require standard procedures and cutting-edge tools. Selecting tools to make multimedia integration in Moodle faster, simpler, and more precise is not child's play.This book provides you with everything you need to include sound, video, animation, and more in your Moodle courses. You'll develop Moodle courses that you are proud of, and that your students enjoy.This book covers integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video. It will take you through these elements in detail where you will learn how to create, edit, and integrate these elements into Moodle. The book is written around the design of an online course called Music for Everyday Life using Moodle, where teachers and students create, share, and discuss multimedia elements. You will also learn how to use Web 2.0 tools to create images, audio, and video and then we will take a look at the web applications that allow easy creation, collaboration, and sharing of multimedia elements. Finally, you will learn how to interact with students in real-time using a particular online phone service and a desktop sharing application.
Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques. Creative ways to build powerful and effective online courses
Moodle Trust, Susan Smith Nash, William Rice,...
Moodle is the world's most popular, free open-source Learning Management System (LMS). It is vast and has lots to offer. More and more colleges, universities, and training providers are using Moodle, which has helped revolutionize e-learning with its flexible, reusable platform and components. It works best when you feel confident that the tools you have at hand will allow you to create exactly what you need.This book brings together step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions and learning theory to give you new tools and new power with Moodle. It will show you how to connect with your online students, and how and where they develop an enthusiastic, open, and trusting relationship with their fellow students and with you, their instructor. With this book, you'll learn to get the best from Moodle.This book helps you develop good, solid, dynamic courses that will last by making sure that your instructional design is robust, and that they are built around satisfying learning objectives and course outcomes. With this book, you'll have excellent support and step-by-step guidance for putting together courses that incorporate your choice of the many features that Moodle offers. You will also find the best way to create effective assessments, and how to create them for now and in the future. The book will also introduce you to many modules, which you can use to make your course unique and create an environment where your students will get maximum benefit. In addition, you will learn how you can save time and reuse your best ideas by taking advantage of Moodle's unique features.
Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment. Develop and evaluate quizzes and tests using Moodle modules
Moodle Trust, Jason Myrick
Moodle is a free Course Management System (CMS), which is a web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. Moodle also has many effective modules and assessment techniques for testing that can be used for any subject. Computer-based testing is inevitable in any online teaching course. As you consider the benefits of computer-based testing you will want to easily create tests and instantaneously assess them.Moodle 1.9 Testing and Assessment puts together a variety of modules and activities that allow us to easily create and deliver a variety of tests on any subject. It is a step-by-step guide that will assist you to develop and assess simple as well as complex quizzes and tests.You will initially learn to create different types of questions such as short answer questions, multiple choice questions, and so on. After you have learned to create questions, you will learn to integrate all of them in a Moodle quiz to create a complete test by tweaking the various options. Next you will learn to create and set up a Lesson, which you can use to create simple vocabulary or flash card tests or complex tests.You will learn to test and assess students through work submitted using Moodle Workshop. This module also provides an opportunity for self- and peer-assessment of your student's work. Then you will learn skill-specific tests such as listening, reading, speaking, and writing tests that will help you to judge a person's ability in a particular field. At the end of this book you will learn how you can grade tests using Moodle Gradebook.This hands-on guide helps you to establish optimal tests that can be graded using Moodle modules.
Moodle Trust, Silvina P. Hillar, Silvina Paola...
Connecting the ideas of students is one of the most difficult tasks to carry out in the teaching process. Performing these types of tasks through Moodle will help you overcome complex situations while you teach. If you are looking for a guide that will show you how to improve your skills in using Moodle, as well as enhance your way of teaching in virtual classrooms, your search ends right here.This cookbook provides a practical, step-by-step guide to building a complete reading comprehension, writing, and composition course in Moodle 1.9 starting with simple activities and ending with complex ones. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve writing using Moodle as a virtual learning platform.This book begins with simple activities in order to enhance students' writing, such as connecting activities developed in different ways either using Moodle or free and open source software available in the Web 2.0. Then, it moves into matching images and different pieces of writing; it shows how to import different pictures to the Moodle course in different ways. It caters for a great variety of images that will brighten the creativity of students.Then reading comprehension is explored from the characters' point of view; students should explore the reading in such a way to become part of it and write as if they were part of the story.Twitter and Facebook social networks are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social on fashion interaction hand in hand with the virtual classroom. There are step-by-step activities involving these websites and inserting Ishikawa's management technique in order to enhance group writing.Once you have reached this point of the book there are other writing techniques explored such as mathematical association to writing, cube technique, discussion clock, mind mapping, and tree diagrams among others. A step-by-step guide is provided for creating these techniques, uploading them into the Moodle course, and creating the writing activity.The book covers writing sentences, poems, songs, descriptions, compositions, essays, articles, cartoons, ads, and creating and describing superheroes.
Paul James Gadsdon, Moodle Trust, Paul Gadsdon
Moodle is a highly extensible virtual learning environment and is used to deliver online teaching and training materials. Theming is one of the main features of Moodle that can be used to customize your online courses and make them look exactly how you want them to. If you have been looking for a book that will help you develop Moodle Themes that you are proud of, and that your students would enjoy, then this is the book for you.This book will show you how to create themes for Moodle, change pre-installed Moodle themes, and download new themes from various resources on the Internet. It is filled with suggestions and examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment.This book starts off by introducing Moodle, explaining what it is, how it works, and what tools you might need to create a stunning Moodle theme. It then moves on to show you in detailed steps how to choose and change a Moodle theme, and explains what Moodle themes are and how they work. It shows you how to change an existing theme and test the changes that you have made.The latter half of this book will start you off on the road to creating your own themes from scratch. It provides detailed instructions to guide you through the stages of creating a stunning theme for your Moodle site. From planning theme creation, through to the slicing and dicing, and more advanced Moodle theming processes, this book will give you step-by-step instructions to create your own Moodle theme.