Re: [xmca] list of ISCAR 2008 papers on moodle

From: Andy Blunden <ablunden who-is-at mira.net>
Date: Sat Sep 27 2008 - 21:52:19 PDT

Steve Gabosch wrote:
> To get to the moodle site:
> Go to > http://moodle.id.ucsb.edu/login/index.php
> Once in, go to the highest level http://moodle.id.ucsb.edu/

Been here ...
> There is a link called ISCAR in the upper right hand corner list of "my
> courses"

No such list for me.

> It might be that to create this "my course" link you have to go there
> first. Click on Special Purpose Sites, Conferences on the main page
> list of courses, which gets you to a search screen. Search for ISCAR
> and hopefully that link will appear and get you there.

Tried that, and I think I've been here before. I get to:
"This course requires an 'enrolment key' - a one-time
password that you should have received from judith green"

I can't recall receiving a password ...

Andy

>
> There is room for improvement on what this moodle software seems to be
> able to do, of course - it would be nice to sort by author, title,
> session, etc. - but just having electronic access like this to so many
> conference papers (I wonder how many more ISCAR 2008 papers there are
> that are not posted here?) is itself a big step forward from the
> mimeograph/copier/printer past (also amazing advances themselves over
> having to wait for books and journals to be published), and even the
> recent digital past ("please email me your paper!"). Another
> improvement could be attaching relevant powerpoint presentations and
> other multimedia files to these papers. But I sure hope making all
> these files accessible doesn't give anyone the idea we don't need actual
> conferences! I've already bought my ticket to Rome 2011! LOL
>
> - Steve
>
> BTW, I just figured out where to find a single page list of the papers
> on the ISCAR moodle site - click on "resources".
>
>
> On Sep 27, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Andy Blunden wrote:
>> Steve,
>> I am registered with Moodle, but I have never been able to find
>> anything there. How do you do it?
>> Andy
>>

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