[Year 12 IT Apps] 1200 year old Moodle

[Roland Gesthuizen]

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.)

Regards Roland

PS: I have a secret wish to go on a archaeological dig, then again .. could
start with the cluttered attic (sigh).

by Chris Lamb <http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=63562&course=5> -
> Thursday, 26 April 2007, 08:48 PM
>
> Okay, this is my entry for the "Most bizarre use of Moodle" competition.
> In 2003, during work at the Cathedral I attend, (
> http://www.lichfield-cathedral.org/, 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 Project<http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=107>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.
>
> 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 domain<http://moodle.org/mod/glossary/showentry.php?courseid=5&concept=domain>name, I installed Moodle on it and set it up, and off they went.
>
> 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 object<http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=106> which
> is well over a thousand years old have a look at
> http://www.lichfield-angel.net/
>

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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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