<div>Here is a fascinating post to another mailing list.. somebody started off the thread with an interesting competition. Probably also a good example of how a virtual team can work together as my students are already familiar with Moodle (although the 'courses' are hidden, there is enough public bits left around to figure out with a dash of imagination how they might have used Moodle to manage the team together.)
<br><br>Regards Roland<br>
<br>PS: I have a secret wish to go on a archaeological dig, then again .. could start with the cluttered attic (sigh).<br><br>
</div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>by <a href="http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=63562&course=5" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Chris Lamb</a> - Thursday, 26 April 2007, 08:48 PM<br>
</p><p>Okay, this is my entry for the "Most bizarre use of Moodle" competition. In 2003, during work at the Cathedral I attend, (<a href="http://www.lichfield-cathedral.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.lichfield-cathedral.org/</a>,
if anyone wants to take a look at it) they discovered part of a stone
carving dating from about 800AD buried under the floor. They
appointed a <a title="Project" href="http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=107" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Project</a>
Co-ordinator to head up the research and analysis of it, and as the
various people involved in the project were spread across the UK but
needed to share information and discuss the ongoing work they wanted to
pool everything on a website. It needed to be easy to use, offer
secure logons (they wanted to keep some of the stuff away from public
eyes until they were ready to publish it), and enable the sharing of
files, pictures, etc.</p><p>As I was already involved in getting an intranet up and running for
the Cathedral staff they asked me to look at this, and as I'd been
setting up Moodles for the College where I work Moodle seemed like the
ideal tool for the job, as it seemed to do everything they wanted and
is dead easy to use. We bought some webspace and a <a title="Glossary of common terms: domain" href="http://moodle.org/mod/glossary/showentry.php?courseid=5&concept=domain" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
domain</a> name, I installed Moodle on it and set it up, and off they went.</p><p>Once the research was done and they were ready to go public with
their findings they took any remaining sensitive material off the site
and asked me to make the remainder publicly accessible. The Project
Co-ordinator tells me that Moodle was a great help in the project, so
if anyone wants to see how Moodle helped to uncover the secrets of an <a title="Object" href="http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=106" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">object
</a> which is well over a thousand years old have a look at <a href="http://www.lichfield-angel.net/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.lichfield-angel.net/</a></p></blockquote>
<br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead