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Marcus Green Will See That You Never Switch From #Moodle. MoodleMoot UK & Ireland 2018 #MootIEUK18 #MoodleNews #OpenEdTech

With over a decade of experience as a prominent Moodler, being a Moodle HQ alumni, and now serving as a developer at Moodle Partner Titus Learning, Marcus Green faced a thorny request from Nord Anglia Education (a 25-country, 8,000-employee, 54-location strong international K-12 educationprovider.) While NAE was willing to welcome Titus expertise to take over its LMS and overhaul its visual…

Get More Deeply Acquainted With #Moodle 3.3's Data Model Using This Tool #MoodleNews

Moodler Marcus Green has updated his “X-Rays for Moodle” tool, called Moodle ER Diagram, a comprehensive display of the Moodle database. This time, it shows the intricacies of the model that powers Moodle 3.3. See our coverage on a previous version of the tool here. Developers often need visualization tools to make sense of large-scale projects. Their importance is particularly notable when it…

Updating A #Moodle Plugin: Making The Question Practice Activity Plugin Work With Moodle 3.0 #moodlenews #mootieuk16

Marcus Green, from York St John University, was one of the presenters at the IEUK Moot in 2016. He recognized that, when Moodle comes out with a new major revision, that update tends to “break” to one degree or another existing plugins. Marcus took the opportunity of the Moot to present on the topic of how to update a plugin for Moodle 3.0. Specifically he looked at the Question Practice Activity…

SEATTLE. You’re killin’ it with the personal-is-political essays this week.

South Seattle Emerald editor Marcus Green’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day speech, “The Long Climb to MLK’s Mountaintop,” is a must-read:

I read racism’s obituary even after a recent reporting trip, when a white mother told me that she could never know what it was like to suffer in the same way that a black mother does in this country, because if her 12-year-old child was to be killed by a police officer, her son’s murder would be a crime.

Racism is not dead. It is just like the Greek hydra, that beast that regenerates in a new form just as you’ve begun to celebrate its defeat.

No, racism is not exclusively overt as it once was. What it is now is sophisticated. What it is now is systemic.

Read the whole thing.

At Jetspace, Braedyn Ezra delivers a righteous fuck-you to legislators trying to gender-police folks who are just trying to go to the bathroom: “I Came to Pee in Peace.” Not to quote a quote, but it’s so gooooood:

The absolute absurdity of such bathroom bills was put into perspective by local comedian Andy Iwancio in a recent status update of hers:

Whenever I have to use a urinal in the dudes’ room, I think about taking my shirt off, let my boobs hang out, and then confess to the guy next to me, “You won’t BELIEVE the night i’m [sic] having”.

Read the whole thing.

Aida Solomon writes on black identity—also her thesis topic!—in the Seattle Globalist:

What I didn’t expect was that the journey would provide me with a real connection to my American identity — an American identity that for once didn’t just talk in patriotic terms about our white forefathers, ignoring the experiences and contributions of people of color.

After the pilgrimage, I felt I finally understood the American part of my label as Ethiopian-American.

But I was curious as to how other black Americans felt.

Read the whole thing.

Katy Sewall writes a heartbreaking goodbye essay to her house—and Ballard as a whole—for Crosscut, illustrated by some really beautiful original .gifs:

I used to dream that our landlord would leave us the house in his will, a gesture of pleasure at having such great, responsible tenants.  It would never happen, but I loved the fantasy. I never wanted to leave. I wanted my own swing on the porch in my golden years. I wanted that duck pond.

The house is full of Ballard, and our history here. Windowsills host seedpods, pinecones, and horse chestnuts picked up on long walks. Under the record player are musty stacks of 1940s classics rescued from the basement of a neighbor. Homemade candles burn in candlesticks discovered at Ballard garage sales.