This next week, I’ll have the opportunity to work with various educational leaders. To prepare for that conference presentation, I thought I’d do the usual wiki, twitterstream, blog tagging, etc. However, since I was also experimenting with some aspects of Moodle at work, I decided to apply what I’d learned and create a professional learning Moodle course. The result is the Moodle with several courses you see above.

Since I was playing around–learning–I decided to figure out how to setup the Book Module in Moodle. Oh my gosh, what a nifty module! I’m so grateful for learning about the Book module because it’s powerful way to combine a variety of materials/tutorials/media into “book” format, a format we’re all familiar with.

One of the annoying things about composing web pages in Moodle is that you end up with a list of resources that gets to be eye-boggling to visitors. Eventually, your resources becomes a never-ending list and you end up shuttling them around the topic page. Enter the book module.

In the screenshot above, you can see several open books entitled “Crafting Engaging Podcasts for Your Community”, “How to Blog,” and “How to Do Surveys and Forms Online.”

Definitely worth exploring the book as an easy way to organize content.