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Creating a Reporting Site using BIRT

  • packtpub.com; By John Ward (Posted by coolrahul on Jul 23, 2010 10:19 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: GNU
In this article series by John Ward, we will be looking at a practical example of building a reporting site. In this part of the article, we will be looking at a scenario where we have a Bugzilla instance setup with a series of bugs related to BIRT. We will look at a series of requirements and build the reports necessary to fulfil those requirements.

Associating Images with Words in Moodle 1.9 for Special kids

  • packtpub.com; By Vanesa S. Olsen (Posted by coolrahul on Jul 17, 2010 12:03 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: GNU
In this article, we create many visually rich activities combining text and pictures. In this article by Vanesa S. Olsen, author of Moodle 1.9 for Teaching Special Education Children (5-10): Beginner's Guide we will learn: * Learn how to combine images with sounds to represent real-life situations * Create activities to write sentences according to visual and sound resources * Improve simple writing and composing skills

Teaching Special Kids How to Write Simple Sentences and Paragraphs using Moodle 1.9

  • packtpub.com; By Vanesa S. Olsen (Posted by coolrahul on Jul 14, 2010 11:38 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: GNU
We can guide children to write simple sentences and paragraphs by creating different kinds of activities. Additionally, we can use many different applications to allow the student to record the sentence instead of writing it. This way, it is possible to evaluate their skills and to create motivating exercises to offer them better guidance to write simpler or more complex sentences. Reading this article written by by Vanesa S. Olsen and following the exercises we will learn the following : * Preparing and recording a sentence with many predefined words * Record, encode, and upload digitalized voice as a result of a Moodle exercise * Prepare images that combine clipart pictures with geometric shapes