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Icons, Words, Accessibility and Learning

16th May 20227th May 2022 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments design, Forums, Icon, Icons, learning, Moodle, Plugins, Theme, User interface, User interface design, UX, Words

hen Emma Richardson posted the words “I do like the new Edit Mode button (especially the wording – nice job UX team!) – it makes much more sense to me to have it where it is and it will make it easier for the teachers to understand the purpose I think.” on the Moodle themes forum. This got me thinking again about the ‘Edit button’ and how it has been improved in M4.0 by Bas Brands in MDL-71610. In improving my Foundation theme, I’d decided to remove the ‘Edit mode’ words on the screen because of the space it took up, when once you know what it is, then you don’t need the description. Or do you? In this post I’ll consider this point.

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Can AI lie?

16th April 20228th April 2022 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment AI, Artifical Intelligence, Automaton, Computer, False truth, Lie, Lying, Machine, Truth, White lie

We live and exist in a technological world. Gone are the days where we depend upon the direct word of another for our information. Progressively in the last and present centuries, the speed of change of communication technologies has rapidly diversified to the extent that we are able to get the point of view of another from almost any part of the world. We are no longer restricted* to singular sources of information but can pick and choose what we wish. But what is the real truth and if its not, then can we tell if we are only interacting with a machine? Thus, can Artificial Intelligence lie?

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Why I believe in Moodle

16th March 202211th March 2022 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Belief, Experience, History, Moodle, Personal Experience, Time

I have been using and writing code for Moodle since version 1.8, producing the first version of Collapsed Topics for 1.9. This is now over fourteen years ago and yet I still believe in Moodle. In this post I’ll say a few words about why this is the case.

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Moodle 4.0 user interface first look

16th February 202212th February 2022 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment 4.0, Future, Moodle, Screencast, User interface

This post is different from the past, in that it’s a screencast! I’ll show off some of the new user interface features of the forthcoming Moodle 4.0, along with what I’ve been doing in my contributed work that compatible with it.

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AJAX – Small little updates

16th January 202211th January 2022 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment AJAX, Bandwidth, How things work, meaning of functionality, Moodle, Network

Ever wondered what happens when you interact with a web page and it updates a certain part? Well, in this post I’ll briefly describe AJAX, “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” and what it does for us.

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A bit of Mustache

16th December 20217th December 2021 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments clarity, explaination, meaning of functionality, Moodle, mustache, Output, template, templates

Introduction In ‘Output three ways’, December 2018, I described how Moodle outputs the web page. The article is technically focussed,

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An unexpected editor

16th November 20214th November 2021 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment development, IDE, Java, mustache, Netbeans, PHP

Introduction For years now I’ve been developing Moodle code in Notepad++, because of its tabs and understanding of line endings

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Development

16th October 202110th October 2021 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments Challenge, development, Experience, learning, Problem solving, Skill, Skills, Software Development

What exactly is ‘Development’? In this post I’ll describe what it means to me within the context of ‘Software Engineering’.

LMS Jubilee Class No 45690 Leander on the Royal Duchy at Powderham, Devon, England 29th August 2021

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Downtime

16th September 20215th September 2021 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Downtime, Facilitating learning, Gamification, learning, Maslow, PGCE, Relaxation

When I did my PGCE I learnt about ‘Maslow’s hierarchy of needs’, whereby there is a ‘pyramid’ that defines the elements in life that help support the needs above them. One of the needs at the top is ‘Self-actualisation’, which I understand to be a need state that is best for learning and indeed being productive. In this post I’ll discuss my thoughts on this.

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Environment

16th August 20216th August 2021 Gareth Barnard 2 Comments Components, Environment, Quiet, Sound, Tinnitus

Introduction In 2017 I developed permanent Tinnitus, which for me is a constant noise I hear (more left than right)

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