I’m very excited to read and review two books from Packt Publishing.

Moodle 1.9 Theme Design: Beginner’s Guide

• Create your own Moodle theme from the graphic design stage right through to the finished complete Moodle theme
• Offers design examples and ways to create appropriate themes for different student age groups and styles
• Effective planning for creating and modifying new themes, customizing existing themes, and enhancing them further
• Clear focus on beginners with ample screenshots and clear explanations to facilitate learning

Moodle 1.9 Extension Development

• Develop your own blocks, activities, filters, and organize your content with secure code
• Thoroughly covers key libraries of Moodle and best practices to use them
• Explore the Moodle architectural concepts, how it is structured, and how it works
• Detailed examples and screenshots for easy learning

These two books are probably the most exciting to me to begin reading out of all the Packt Publishing books I’ve read. I’m currently into the 3rd chapter of the Theme Design book, which I will be reviewing on MoodleNews.com. It should be posted on Moodle News within a few weeks and the Extension book I will be reviewing on this blog.

Back in January Helen Foster wrote a blog post telling about all of the “official” Moodle Twitter accounts. I just wanted to remind users of them!

• @moodle – The official Moodle.org Twitter account
• @moodleplugins – Tweets about newly added modules and plugins to the database
• @moodlethemes – Tweets about newly added themes to the database and other Moodle theme news
• @moodledev – Tweets about the CVS
• @moodlesecurity – Security announcements
• @moodlejobs – Job offerings and wanted job that are Moodle-related

If you don’t already use Moodle, I highly recommend joining and following the above Twitter accounts and check out this awesome WeFollow – Moodle site, where it lists the top Moodlers on Twitter. That link is the place to start when trying to find good Moodlers on Twitter.

Just a quick note to stay updated with Moodle 2.0 news at Moodle Monthly. Moodle 2.0 Beta recently came out and is available at Moodle.org for download.

Recent posts

• What’s up with FTP in Moodle2.0? by @moodledan #moodle2PR
• 4 part video preview of #Moodle2 by @Moodler
• @ghenrick showcases the #moodle2 navigation
• @Moodleman outlines #Moodle2 conditional activities

Other ways to keep informed of the development of Moodle 2.0

• Moodle Monthly web site
• Moodle Monthly Twitter – @moodlenews
• Martin Dougiamas – @moodler
• #Moodle2 Twitter hash tag