[Moodle] Explaining Moodle with Lego

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Thanks Victor and good point  .. I'll try the bracket approach in future.
Hmm, lets try it on the world's longest domain name.
     <
http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com>

Sorry for the bum link steer folks. Here is the correct links for explaining
Moodle with Lego.
      <http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=C-p2KqU7QD4>  long version
      <http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_XPZl6LLvik> short version

Regards Roland

2008/12/5 victor rajewski <askvictor at gmail.com>

> The URI that tinyurl redirects to is mangled.
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> 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.
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> But most of all, I want to see where the link will take me.
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> 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.
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> vik
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> 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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>>  Hey Roland
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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
>>
>> "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
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"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
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