[Moodle] Explaining Moodle with Lego

[victor rajewski]

The URI that tinyurl redirects to is mangled.

Incidentally, can I point out that link shorteners like tinyurl are (IMHO) a
bad idea? They create a single point of failure, for example if the tinyurl
server goes down or runs out of money, or a database failure, then all links
are lost. Someone looking at the archives of this list in 5 years time after
the next dot-com crash might find these links useless. They can harbour
malware and spam - the user doesn't know where the link is going to take
them. If the tinyurl server/s are hacked, all hell could break loose.

But most of all, I want to see where the link will take me.

If you have a long URL to send in an email, you can usually prevent it being
chopped by putting it inside angle brackets <> e.g. <
http://some.really.long/url/goes.here.that.would.span.across.two.or.more.lines.html>
- most email clients will interpret that without the line breaks.

vik

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Briant, Stephen L <
briant.stephen.l at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

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> *From:* moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Roland Gesthuizen
> *Sent:* Thursday, 4 December 2008 11:36 PM
> *To:* Moodle in Schools Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Moodle] Explaining Moodle with Lego
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> I like the idea behind this . introducing Moodle with Lego. I might use
> this at the start of 2009 with our staff briefing or just show the following
> YouTube video. Just need to nail down a bigger version so I can read the
> smaller text (or read it out as I show it to our staff)
>      http://tinyurl.com/66vmmw
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> Regards Roland
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> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
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> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
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