Category: News

Brown Bag: Introduction to Elluminate, 11/11

Introduction to Elluminate – the first of CLAMP’s Fall 2009 brown bags – will be held Wednesday, Nov. 11 at noon ET. This session will server as a primer for using Elluminate for conference participants. We’ll run down the basic components of the online conferencing tool, and troubleshoot any audio/video problems you might experience. If you plan on attending, visit the Elluminate Support page before the brown bag to download the software and verify that it works on your machine.

The event is free to the public, but registration is required. Register for the brown bag now.

CLAMP announces Fall 2009 Moodle Brown Bags

The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) added 13 member  institutions to its roster over the last few months. To get everyone  up to speed — and to show case the work we’ve been doing — we’re  hosting several virtual brown bags in November and December:

  • Introduction to Elluminate, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Nov. 11
  • Documentation Overview, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Nov. 18
  • Code Development Overview, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Dec. 2
  • Introduction to Redmine, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Dec. 16
  • Introduction to Version Control, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Dec. 23

All of these events will be held in NITLE’s new Elluminate video  conferencing room. The brown bags are free, but registration is  required so that we can send attendees the conferencing link.

For more information about these brown bags, visit our Events Web Page. To register, use the online registration form.

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V, Jan. 5-7, 2010

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V will be held January 5-7, 2010 at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. The event will feature programmers and instructional technologists coming together to improve Moodle. We expect to continue work on CLAMP’s Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition project, fix outstanding Moodle bugs, and craft new training materials. We also hope to test drive Moodle 2.0, which is scheduled for a beta release at the end of 2009.

With this Hack/Doc, CLAMP returns to its “pay your own way” funding model. Lafayette will be providing breakfast, lunch and snacks for attendees, but they will need to pay for their own transportation, lodging, and dinner. In addition to the conventional Hack/Doc Fest, we’re planning on coordinating a virtual component to Hack/Doc Fest that will allow people to participate from their own campuses.

Visit the event home page for more information and to register.

Academic Commons publishes CLAMP Case Study

“The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project: A Case Study” is available on AcademicCommons.org. The case study looks at our efforts to transform our informal Hack/Doc Fests into a more formal organization with the help of a grant from the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE).  The case study is part of the September 2009 issue, which features a number of case studies provided by NITLE schools.