Adobe’s Project Rome
Project Rome is the latest coming out of Adobe Max. Project Rome is available for download as a free preview. There is also a Project Rome for Education. Project Rome can be used to produce a variety things including publications, presentations, websites and even animation. The outputs include PDF, SWF, JPG, PNG, SVG, FXG or web files. I downloaded the Air application, but it can also be used as a web-based service. I plan on playing with it and seeing what this new tool can do. I will keep everyone updated. FYI: It also appears that for those involved in piloting the education version, there is some integration with Moodle.
Here are the FAQ pages for more info – Project Rome for Education FAQ and Project Rome FAQ. They also have quite a few tutorials too (tutorials for education version).
Moodle Demo Site
While searching Moodle.org for ways to learn more about Moodle, I found their demo site. It is a great way to learn and explore this open source LCMS. They provide access to Admin, Teacher, and Student levels, so you can get a good feel for the system’s features as they pertain to each role. And the demo system is erased and restored every hour, allowing you to do whatever you want without any harm. Also, the demo is offered in numerous languages. If you want to learn more about Moodle and like to learn by doing, this will be just the place. Here is the link - http://demo.moodle.org.
How Big is Moodle?
Moodle is getting more and more popular, but just how big is it? I am even starting to hear of more corporations adopting it. My experience has been that companies were weary of using open source software, but that appears to be changing too.
I decided to do some research. Here is what I found from Moodle.org.
Registered validate sites: 56,715
Number of countries: 210
Course: 3,047,685
Users: 32,815,756
Keep in mind, these are only the registered Moodle sites. Pretty impressive numbers!
