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I just wonder how a teacher might use Frog to create resources and 'publish' them in Frog?

Perhaps a little bit off topic, I dont really understand how resources or activties as such get added to Frog? I've seen Frog in the flesh but im still confused. What i see are various areas where i can pick up 'web pages' or other objects, I can create webpages and elborate interfaces using the web page builder or use templates which have been created by other staff. Could someone explain, demonstrate via a login, how a student might go about collecting and collaborating with Frog?

Im interested, perhaps its might be a good idea to publish a little tutorial on how you did this?

Thanks for your comments and links, but id rather speak to a school using Frog that isnt on your list. I know that probably sounds a bit backwards but I want to see a normal run of the mill school.

I beleive there is some expo stuff for VLEs. I believe it comprises of Teacher Presentation Pack and Pupil Activity Packs. Teacher Presentations are not just powerpoints and the pupil activities are flash based activities with sound and movies. Look quite good. Link to free preview here: http://www.heinemann.co.uk/Series/Secondary/Expo11-14/Software/Software.aspx

Forum posts do remain but without the users name against them i beleive. As far as i know everything becomes disconnected, however reinstating the user brings everything back to life.

But what about all there work? Forum posts etc...

The process I like is this: All courses from 07/08 are archived, this just means all course get moved to a catergory called "Archive" and have .2007/08 added to there name. They are also hidden from students and are nolonger enrollable. The courses are still available to staff and when I create all the new classes in September they are able to either use backup or import in Moodle to bring resources from the archive into this years class. At the moment I havent dealt with leavers, I'll probably write a script to set all the leavers profiles as "deleted" in Moodle DB. If i need to re-instate any I can.

Would love to speak with people actually using Frog, would love to see what people have done with the vast array of tools in terms of delivering learning resources for pupils. I havent seen any yet, looks pretty, but thats about it? I want to be proved wrong lol : )

Try a Google search, lots of results for that problem so i'll assume its a common fault. You basically need to do a software reset, which means holding down the right combination of buttons on the ipod (even thought they are not working). You'll need to know which ipod it is for the right combo i think? Key combo: Try holding down the round middle button and top button till the apple symbol flashes up on the screen, they need to be held down at the same time.

Id be very greatful if users of this forum would completed the survey linked to below: VLE Wish List - What do you want you VLE to do that it doesnt? The survey is going to be used to collect ideas for future development of VLE's. What does your VLE do that other providers dont that you feel adds real teaching and learning value. What systems do you wish you could intergrate with your VLE? Which features/functions would you like to see added to your VLE that your VLE doesnt provide? General ideas and sugestions for VLE development.

Not sure what you mean about it displaying to the left of the page? A link to your dev site might help if its public? One thing to bear in mind with the Clouds theme is that it draws from the "Standard" moodle theme, so styles_clouds.css just overrides style set in the standard theme. Thats whats centering the page: #content-wrapper { width:900px; margin:0 auto; } Id try and play around with with #page margins and width for starters.....

I was wondering if anyone had got MOSS and Moodle playing nicely together, id certainly like to take a peek at what the user sees? Found a good blog post regarding setup: Samar Hossam's SharePoint Spot: Integration between Moodle and MOSS - Part 2

Been using it for a few weeks now on a Vista (VM) and XP SP3 and runs nice and smoothly, havent noticed any problems or encountered any as yet.....

I've got a new mac book pro, would you buy a might mouse? Suggest others?

Worked like a charm, and clearly a much more sensible solution.

Thanks Dhicks but I get the following error: unexpected ] was expecting ' or ; Can you help?

If you have ever seen a post from me in the coding forum you will know that programming isnt exactly my strong point so I appreciate any reply...... if (isset($_GET['tag'])) { echo 'download.png '; for($page = 1; $page <= $max_pages; $page++) { $url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q={$tag}&rpp=100&page={$page}"; $xmlstr = file_get_contents($url); $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr); foreach ($xml->entry as $entry) { foreach ($entry->link as $link) { switch((string) $link['rel']) { // Get attributes as element indices case 'image': $dp = $link['href']; break; } } echo ' '.$dp.' '.$entry->updated.' '.$entry->author->name.': '.$entry->content.' '; flush(); } } } else { echo 'You are limited by only being able to download a maximum of 5000 tweets. Follow me: @moodledan'; } ?> Had some help from JackD in putting this together but ill draw your attention to the line: '.$entry->updated.' This outputs: 2009-04-14T17:37:35Z Id like it to output: 14-04-2009 17:37:35 Removing the T and Z and re-organising the layout. Now im guessing its not all possible in one simple "one liner" but if somone could: A: Tell me where in the code to put the relevant regex I was thinking somewhere here: foreach ($entry->link as $link) { switch((string) $link['rel']) { // Get attributes as element indices case 'image': $dp = $link['href']; break; } B: Which regex/bit of code do i need to enable me to remove the Z and T C: Re-arrange the date? Dan

Invisible batman?

Yesturday I found a big long list of all the variables for PHP: E.g. author->name author->uri description published But cannot for the life of me find the site I was using, im busily trying to search the API documentation WIKI on Twitter but dont seem to be able to find this, its probably becuaee im not using the right terminology. Can anyone help?

powdarrmonkey thanks for the extensive breakdown!!! Think im slowly realising that im out of my depth lol I think scraping the t'internet for a few hours yesturday and copying lines from here there and everywhere isnt the safest/cleanest option. I think the regex stuff takes various pieces of text to create the links to profiles and "retweet" etc... Demo here I think i might also be going to wrong route trying to use RSS to get the data, I want pages of data but the RSS feed doesnt really recognise that and the only way the RSS feed could would be if I asked for specific Tweets to be included in the feed - messy The XML idea might work better, but seen as im totaly bewildered by all this it might have to be put on hold. You'd think it would be easy to: Twitter - Give me all the posts that match "something" - dont limit me to 100. I understand that there servers would eventually break if people like me were let loose with the API but essentially I only want it once lol

Firstly Im not a programmer but have recently started trying to pickup bits and pieces from here and there. But now I have actually found something (a project) to get stuck in with. Basically I want to create an archive tool for Twitter for searches so that anyone can search for a term in Twitter and save the results offline. I know tools exist to store your own tweets in CSV format but there isnt anything for a search, so im going to create one. Below is what I have got so far: $q=$_GET['q']; if($_GET['q']==''){ $q = '%23mmuk09';} $limit = "100"; #Set by Twitter API $search = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=".$q."&rpp=". $limit;""; $tw = curl_init(); curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_URL, $search); curl_setopt($tw, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); $twi = curl_exec($tw); $search_res = new SimpleXMLElement($twi); echo "Twitter search results for '".$q."'"; ## Echo the Search Data foreach ($search_res->entry as $twit1) { $description = $twit1->content; $description = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])@([^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1@\\2'", $description); $description = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])([\w]+?://[\w]+[^ \"\n\r\t<]*)#ise", "'\\1\\2'", $description); $description = preg_replace("#(^|[\n ])((www|ftp)\.[^ \"\t\n\r<]*)#ise", "'\\1\\2'", $description); $retweet = strip_tags($description); echo "author->uri,"\" target=\"_blank\">\"",$twit1-link[1]->attributes()->href,"\" title=\"", $twit1->author->name, "\" />\n"; echo "".$description."From: ", $twit1->author->name," Retweet!"; } curl_close($tw); ?> Now at the moment it only collects 100 Tweets, this is a limit determinded by the Twitter API. Maximum of 100 tweets per requests. Now for the above query searching on '%23mmuk09' there are about 7 pages of tweets if the limit is set at 100. What I want to do is add a loop of some kind to cycle through the all 7 pages and output the results to screen. I need to create 7 seperate requests to get the 7 pages. Any help appreciated.

Sure Russ shouldnt be a problem!

I've put together a script based on web tutorials on the Twitter API, its very simple but does the job. http://edumoodle.veloxserv.co.uk/twitter.php The problem is the API only allows developers to pull back the first 100 results, I've submitted a request to Twitter to be Whitelisted to allow me to return more results. Basically you have to do it based on IP so I've used my webserver IP where the script is hosted in the hope it will work??? Twitter are probably on Bank Holiday lol

I found: OutTwit - Use Twitter directly from Outlook. Basically an outlook 2003/2007 plugin which allows searches and downloads the results to a folder in Outlook. The trouble is I couldnt get it to download more than 100 tweets, mmuk09 tweets = about 70 odd pages so I need it to download much more than that. Apparently you can tweak the registry settings for the program but I couldnt get it to work: TechHit OutTwit FAQ If anyone can get it working can I get a copy of the tweets lol