Moodled!

Over the past month or so I've been giving some time to learning how to author course material using Moodle. I've not been able to give it as much time as I'd like but I've finally uploaded a first stab. if anyone has time (and the inclination) please have a look at "Working online" - the wiki section is blank but the other two should work. Let me know how it is for you :-)

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Those of a non-footy disposition might want to miss out on this one but today the Super Blues won the Manchester derby by the only goal of the game. As it says on the BBC site:

"Sir Alex Ferguson's side have taken only two points from their first three games and the champions are now seven points behind City at the summit of the table."

Blue Moon!

Spam!

I don't know what is so special about this weekend but we're 38 minutes into 19/08 and my spam filter shows that it's zapped 688 spam mails between 18/08 and the 38 minutes of now, i.e. 24 hours and 38 minutes. Is it just me?

Tetris

This is funnier than a funny thing after a day at funny school!

Social bookmarking

For all those who struggle to understand how social bookmarking should work - and it's so beautifully explained in really simple terms.

Table

Cool slide show

Apples

Apples
Originally uploaded by nogbad the bad

Where I was brought up we didn't have many apple trees, or even many apples, so I'm always blown away when the tree in the garden is full of juicy red Discovery apples. They taste brilliant fresh from the tree!

Coming to Manchester

The Pev
Originally uploaded by nogbad the bad

Over the 20 some years that I've not lived in Manchester there have been a lot of changes but The Peveril of the Peak remains as a wonderful example of a proper pub. Picture isn't very good because I took it with the phone rather than the camera.

CTID at Urbis

I found this while looking for something else. It's a shot of the photo exhibition - CTID - at Urbis. Check out the full sized image.

The photo is part of Lynn Smith's Flickr stream and it's well worth checking out her stuff.

Tenterden

DSCF1571, originally uploaded by nogbad the bad.

A really cool thing about having a son is that we get to go to see trains. Yesterday was scorchio so we went to Tenterden and eat ice cream and watched steam trains - full size this time.

Flickr

So I've been playing with Flickr and have uploaded some stuff and played with linking to maps an all sorts!

Strange!

I posted what might otherwise have been a blog post on Facebook. Not a problem but I've been wondering about why I might go there instead of here - particularly as Facebook has a different audience - one that is limited and "controlled".

Anyways - Mild at The Mermaid yesterday and a picnic on a train today. The train is on the World's smallest passenger railway; The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch.

River

Some might remember that there is a "magic" river through the village. It only runs every six or so years, the rest of the time it's a dry ditch - you can see a photo of the bridge we use to cross it to get to Jopper's Bank to watch cricket.

Anyways. Even after all the rain (and there's not been enough for flooding or damage down here) the river is still not showing any sign of flowing! Earlier in the year it was in water as far as World's Wonder (or some such which local name) but it receded. The other night I popped out to grab a glass of refreshment at The Mermaid and almost drowned wandering up the road but still no chance of a Bishopsbourne Regatta!

Ontario bans employees using Facebook

Does just what it says at the top. This link goes to Michael Hotrum's blog and he links to a paid for service so I've mooched around and found the story on CBC Canada

Home again!

Back from a week at OU Residential School. I was working as a learning adviser at the University of Sussex, looking after a group of science students. Great fun and not dissimilar to working on a holiday camp (done that so I know what I'm talking about!). It was hard work too though and I am completely cream-crackered right now, I've been asleep much of the day and now I'm trying to get the washing done.

In the photo I'm engaged in one of my favourite activities - opening a bottle of fizzy wine. This was to celebrate the retirement of a colleague who has spent 53 weeks at residential school since 1980. The orange tape attached to my belt has my keys on it - that way I don't lock myself out of any rooms - and the badge has a black strip behind the "Open University" wording showing that I'm staff. Student's badges are colour-coded to show the course they are studying, blue indicates SXR103.

Conference

Conference in Greenwich yesterday - I was Jacqui Bennett and helped Anna with her presentation. Gilly Salmon headlined and there was sushi on the lunch buffet. T'was a funky sort of day.

Connected me!

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CTID

Check out this page about an exhibition being held at Urbis in Manchester.

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