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Whether you are creating it to post on YouTube, social media or your website, here are some tips on how to get started. This article explores the importance of strategic targeting and offers valuable… Continue Reading → November 5, 2023 0 Choosing a Realtor to Sell Your house Disclaimer: I am not a realtor nor am I qualified to give any legal or other advice on matters relating to real estate. The following is just a draft of my personal research notes on the subject. Do not take… Continue Reading → May 5, 2023 0 Sony WH 1000XM3/WH 1000XM4 Headphones Dead? Fix it yourself! Are your Sony WH 1000XM3 or Sony WH 1000XM4 headphones dead? It happened to me. They stopped working just one month out of warranty. The charge light would not even come on. The only thing that worked was that I… Continue Reading → January 4, 2022 2 LDAP User Account Filtering in Moodle Setting up LDAP in Moodle LMS is a great way to enable single sign-on, the synchronization of user accounts with other systems in your organization. Once you have configured the LDAP authentication plugin in Moodle and confirmed that it is… Continue Reading → May 26, 2021 0 Should you create a new role in Moodle? You have been thinking about creating a new role in Moodle. Think it might solve your challenge? Here are a few things to consider before creating one or more new roles. Before we begin, lets cover what a role is… Continue Reading → May 11, 2021 0 Developer Tools for Moodle Getting started in Moodle Development? Here is a list of useful tools for Windows that may be of interest to Moodle Developers. Moodle Coding Style Guidelines In general, you can configure code editors to understand 90% of the Moodle Coding… Continue Reading → January 14, 2021 0 MoodleMoots – Humanized Conferences The most social conference that I have attended since COVID started in 2020 has been the MoodleMoots, specifically MoodleMoot Global 2020 and MoodleMoot U.S. 2020. What makes virtual MoodleMoots humanized conferences? Like many virtual conferences, they include multiple concurrent sessions… Continue Reading → January 12, 2021 0 How to feel connected during COVID-19 Feeling disconnected because of COVID-19? Are you sure you are being 100% completely and totally honest with yourself? Maybe you just need a few friendly suggestions The first step is to make a list of 31 people you have not… Continue Reading → December 29, 2020 0 PHP XDEBUG’ing in Brackets XDEBUG enables you to walk through the execution of PHP source code and debug the code as it is executed in real-time. It is one of the most important tools that a PHP developer’s toolbox and is well worth the… Continue Reading → November 19, 2019 2 Forcing Links to Open in a New Tab or Window Have you ever found yourself browsing the web on a smartphone and clicked on something that opened in a new tab? It is almost impossible to tell when this happens. In fact, many people don’t even realize that browsers on… Continue Reading → July 6, 2019 0 Creating a Multilingual Moodle Site I have built many multilingual Moodle sites over the years. Unfortunately you cannot make a course appear or not appear based on the user’s current language. But you can create a multilingual Moodle site and multi-language Moodle course. First you… Continue Reading → July 3, 2019 2 Surviving Canadian Winters The key to surviving Canadian winters is to dress appropriately warm and get involved in winter activities like skiing, winter camping, skating, snowshoeing, hiking and our many Winter festivals. If you start off with the mindset that it is a… Continue Reading → June 29, 2019 0 How do I know that she loves me? Every relationship is different because we all have different values. What is meaningful sign of love to you can be completely different for another — even between you and the person you love. Assuming that you are in a relationship… Continue Reading → February 9, 2019 0 WCAG 2.0 – Closed Caption, Describe Video and Transcripts Adding (or burning) captions into raw videos will not satisfy WCAG 2.0 criteria because the text then becomes part of the image which will not be narrated by screen readers or displayed on braille device. Real Closed Caption (CC) /… Continue Reading → July 7, 2018 0 Camtasia alternatives and other media tools for screencasting Camtasia is one of the best and most complete set of tools out there for capturing a recording of your screen (called screencasting) but comes at a cost of $313.99 per person (as of this writing). While you might be able… Continue Reading → July 6, 2018 0 Multi-language content in Moodle So, you are have a Moodle website that runs in multiple languages. To date, you’ve been doubling up all you text doing things like This content is in English. / Ce contenu est en français.” As a result, the site… Continue Reading → July 5, 2018 0 Choosing a Moodle theme While you may simply choose a theme based on the way it looks, smart people know that themes are more than skin deep. Here are a few things to consider when choosing a Moodle theme: Make sure that the theme… Continue Reading → July 4, 2018 0 How to be Happy I often talk about finding fulfilment through growth and contribution. Today, we will look at how to actually find happiness. You can’t buy happiness — this isn’t actually true. Scientific studies have shown that you can actually buy happiness. The… Continue Reading → March 28, 2018 0 Words of Wisdom: Take Control of Your Life With every breath you take in life, you have the power to make new choices, see things in a different way and adopt new beliefs — regardless of anything that has happened in your past. Your future does not have… Continue Reading → March 26, 2018 0 Dealing with a mean bad boss It depends on what you mean by a really bad boss. I’ve had some bosses that kept having me do things that were not really my job. I may not have liked it at the time but I learned so… Continue Reading → March 23, 2018 0 Words of Wisdom: What do you live for? Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what does inside us while we live. –Norman Cousins. If you are reading this, it is probably because you still have something to live for — even if… Continue Reading → March 21, 2018 0 Building a Sustainable Future Want to make the world a better place? It’s our children who are going to shape our future and, next to parenting, providing these children with the best possible education will create a sustainable future for our economy and our… Continue Reading → March 19, 2018 0 Words of Wisdom: We shouldn’t all be millionaires Think about this for a moment. If you make everyone millionaires, all you end up doing is devaluating your currency. In fact, the same can be said of raising minimum wage. Everything ends up being more expensive because employers then… Continue Reading → March 16, 2018 0 Words of Wisdom: Solving a Problem If you have a problem with an individual, talk to the individual. Nobody needs more...