Moodle resources - UPDATED - and Again

          First, a heartfelt thanks to the Moodle community, all the people who generously share what they’ve learned so that we can all improve learning and teaching.  Here are some of the resources the Moodle community has created:

Sample courses: 
          These are copies of courses that you can look at to see how they’re put together.

• Moodleshare  http://moodleshare.com/
• Moodle Commons  http://www.moodlecommons.org/
• JUST ADDED Moodle 2.0 Live tour (Mt. Orange School) http://www.moodlenews.com/2010/live-tour-of-the-mt-orange-school-demo-by-lasic-and-moodler-122210-8am-est/   
• Another new one:  http://courses.moodleshare.com/

Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers:

• A marvelous summary of the many Moodle functions, including ease of use, relation to Bloom’s Taxonomy, from Joyce Seitzinger.  http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/2010/05/moodle-tool-guide-for-teachers/

Tutorials (mostly videos):

• Lots of how to's here: http://onlinelearning.calhounisd.org/cisd/course/view.php?id=69  New
• http://www.moodlenews.com/2011/8-moodle-tutorial-videos-forums-to-chats-to-assignments-to-editing/   New
• http://tomazlasic.net/moodle/moodle-tutorials-2-minute-moodles/
• http://www.moodletutorials.org/   
• http://treadwell.cce.cornell.edu/moodle_doc/index.html  
• http://www.youtube.com/user/UsingMoodle#p/u/4/aIxP00gtEpU  
• Searchable written guides/tutorials from California State University https://quickguides.calstate.edu/public

Blogs:

• Moodle News – regular updates and news about Moodle.  Very helpful.  http://www.moodlenews.com
• http://tomazlasic.net/
• http://patrickmalley.com/
• http://www.moodleblog.net
• Many other blogs refer to Moodle as well. 

Books I’ve found helpful:

• These and others available through http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=55&advanced=0&paging=&page=0 as well as Amazon.com.
• Moodle 1.9 for teaching 7 – 14 year olds by Mary Cooch (step by step so great for the beginner, teacher oriented)
• Moodle Teaching Techniques: Creative Ways to Use Moodle for Constructing Online Learning Solutions by William Rice (very thorough and helpful).
• Using Moodle by Jason Cole and Helen Foster (more slanted towards administrators, but still useful for teachers).

       
Documentation, community, the mother lode:

• http://moodle.org/

Sandbox:

• A place to play with Moodle without messing up your own course. http://demo.moodle.net/
• I sometimes create a dummy course to make mistakes in.

          If you’ve found other useful resources, blogs, please add these in comments, below.