i feel like i should use this book to change my life, change my teaching. It’s so exciting, and then you read the work of some of Jordan’s students, like Ruth Forman!

I had to return this to Interlibrary Loan before I finished it. Coming-of-age, misunderstood youth with a destiny.

Cole’s Using Moodle is a fair introduction to the course management software and a useful user’s manual.

Although pedagogy is an important part of the software, don’t look for much depth here. It’s written by techies, not teachers.

Also, unlike user manuals for other kinds of commercial software (Word, Excel, etc), the guide is not specific to a certain version. As of this writing, the book is already out-of-date.

[Edit: one year later]

However, I when I wanted to learn about glossaries in moodle and how they work, I was able to look them up in this book, and immediately put one together and get it up and running in minutes.

Preciado Martin deserves a much wider audience. Her short stories are masterful: particularly “The Ruins” and “Maria de las Trenzas”

The narrator and editing on the audio version of this book are both awful. definitely go with the print version to get the real flavor of mosley’s writing