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Learning about Moodle with the help of a couple of books and a lynda.com training course (which is really rather good!) Watching the recordings of Moodle Moot UK 2011 on YouTube (tag mootuk11) Signing up for the 2011 JISC Innovating e-Learning online 2011 conference Thinking about Non-Barking Dogs Re-evaluating Ning (Elesig) and Cloudworks And looking forward to migrating some of my Blackboard courses to Moodle. I have also just downloaded an e-copy of Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age and will be reading it over coffee....

It’s that time of year again. I just signed up for the Innovating e-Learning 2011 : JISC online conference subtitled “Learning in Transition”. Is anyone I know going to be attending? If there’s anyone at Swansea Um shall we try to arrange a group viewing of one or more of the keynotes?

With the hype following the demise of Steve Jobs, this news item slipped under the radar, and I only picked up the news that Dennis Ritchie has died aged 70, when I listened to the Tech Weekly Podcast of 19th October this morning. Here’s the opening of the Guardian Obit: “The American computer scientist Dennis Ritchie, who has died aged 70 after suffering from cancer and heart disease, was one of the co-inventors of the Unix operating system and the C programming language....

Today I reached enlightenment via the Ruby koans. Today I completed the “path to ruby enlightenment” with Ruby Koans. Ruby Koans is a test-driven tutorial produced by Edgecase.com that explores some of the basics as well as the darker corners of the Ruby Programming language. It took the best part of 3 days to complete, and was quite challenging in parts. But I’m glad I did it. Thanks to Charles Max Wood’s Teach Me To Code screencast Ruby Koans for the inspiration....

Swansea Airshow 2011, a set on Flickr. A splendid photo opportunity! Beautiful weather, stunning displays, decent camera. What more could you ask for.