 Okay. Hello everyone. Sorry for the delay there. My name is Martin Meadows and Don who you've all met is going to be helping out and both of us are representing the Moodle Association of Japan. So the topic today is talking about it's the story of our effort to move from what we already have. Some of you are probably familiar with that. It's called The Showcase and Don as the prime mover of that. We'll go into it and move from that to Moodle debt. Okay. Must be manual then. Okay. So yes the outline is basically we'll just start with a brief introduction and then Don will look after the history of what we call the of sharing content in the Moodle Association of Japan and then I'll relate a little bit our experiences and trying to set up a Moodle net server and where we are now and then finally end with some questions. Okay. So Don. The history of Moodle net is old. So in fact the word Moodle net was used a long time ago. Here's the story of my connection to history. I started talking to my wife says don't talk like a teacher. Repository. You know around coffee and beer we would talk about sharing things back in 2006 and it was fun and we said we used the word repository and then in 2007 a couple of us said well I know how to program PHP and why don't we make a sharing cart so we can share things and we made a sharing cart and the sharing cart is now one of the more popular plugins in Moodle and then Moodle instituted the publish icon where you could send things to Moodle net and then they stopped it suddenly and is anyone here from Alberta Canada? Anyone? No? Okay. But there were two people using Moodle net at that time when HQ stopped the hub, stopped the publish function and we immediately jumped up and said what happened? Why did you stop it? And they said oh sorry sorry we'll help you keep it going and we started to keep it going and we changed our name to the showcase showcasing new courses and the best thing that happened in 2012 we started awards. Why? We started awards because people didn't want to give the courses to share the courses. It's too much trouble. I have to clean it up before I can share it or there are a few things that have a copyright that I don't know what to do with okay so when we started giving awards people started start getting that recognition was very important for those teachers and now we have Moodle net started and Paul just gave a great vision of that. The repository what we learned from there is instead of learning objects sharing we shared whole courses. Why? Because the context you have to see the context of what you're learning and then you can use the sharing cart to take the pieces you want. If you if you take a whole course and you don't want it all just use the sharing cart to take a piece here and there. Sharing cart is a cherry picking tool. Okay next in the publish the course administration you would click on publish and it would send to a sharing hub and you would enter metadata so we learned a lot about metadata what metadata was important because that's how people search. Now Paul has really worked on this in the new Moodle net so I feel like everything in terms of that is solved now. Now here is our hub this is how it looks except we have a banner at the top. So over here are the list of courses that were contributed in the past year in Japan so you'll have maybe 10 or 20 courses and then we have our whole you know five-year catalog of about 50 or 100. Could you go back one more and then over here this is the box where a teacher gives their course. Now teachers don't know what is an MBZ file so we had to sort of teach teachers download your course it will have an MBZ at the end it means Moodle best zip file. I think and it you just drag that in there and it will go into your hub okay so we made three three plugins to make an easy contribution and these plugins are working just drag and drop your MBZ file and it goes in you enter metadata along the way then we have course info and this is cool lots of rating systems and reviews so we've got reviews and someone asks how do you tell the quality it comes from the reviews of peers and judges we have judges Martin is head of a judging committee of 10 people in in uh Japan and these 10 people look at all the courses contributed and decide which ones are the best and people really want that and here's what it looks like here's what a first prize looks like for best open courseware and its certificate is given once a year to the four best courses in Japan and here's one of them it's a sports theory one and this integrates sports training and Moodle okay next and these are some of the people who are involved when we have an HQ come to our conference like Mary we involve her in the judging panel next and this is this is where Federation we're going to move our showcase into Moodle net so here is Japan and here we have our showcase and we're going to change this to Moodle net that's going to be our Federation and we're still going to give those prizes and awards because we're going to look at our community but share to the world over here this is Germany and you're going to see a star here for Greece for Spain for Italy and so on as these Moodle nets grow and appear okay thanks Dan so yeah you see where we're coming from and we have you know the showcase it works it works for us so really the first question then is why do we want a local Moodle net why oh is this also on so why why why a local Moodle net and Paul sort of went into this a little bit but we want to curate our own resources right we want to we want exercise a little bit of quality control on the resources and we want to reward excellence is excellence which is what we already do with the showcase we want to be the face of Moodle in Japan we are the Moodle Association of Japan new Moodlers in Japan tend to come to us first we want to create a local community based on on the shared resources of our community we want to play an active role in supporting and building the Japanese Moodle community we want to tie it in tie the the Moodle net in with our annual conference our moot and our showcase awards we want to motivate the creation of new content and finally we want to create a repository of Japanese language resources managed in Japanese for the Japanese community now the next the next question then is why Moodle net you know what's what's wrong with the showcase well Moodle net's the future and Paul in his kindness has let us look a little bit into the cookie jar and yeah it's it seems to be the way we're going forward and we want to be a part of that we want to get in on the ground floor kind of thing things change and evolve and we've felt the passion of people like Paul and everyone on the on the Moodle net team okay we're excited about Federation Paul said that'll be out in Moodle net three or the next generation we don't know we're excited about it but we don't really have a vision of it yet we don't know how that's going to work but the what interests us or what excites us is the chance to push our resources to a wider audience and and share with a global meeting global Moodle community and also to to let the world find us come in and it's because it's open to all we're excited about the future proof architecture you know no php and things like that and broadening the scope of things that can be shared so moving from the showcase to Moodle net I'm not really a techie guy but you know I've worked with Moodle maybe 15 years now and so over the years I've I have a I can get a server going I can install Moodle and I can manage those things so Moodle net was a bit of a challenge this I don't want to get too techie but I just got a very low-grade linode server one gig of ram one core installed debio debio 11 and then no js was was easy to install a wrangled database also easy installing and configuring Moodle net not so easy not yet anyway Paul was talking about making that easier so looking forward to some documentation I had a hard time finding any documentation and then HTTPS making it a secure site was was a bit of a challenge as well because it's currently HTTP only so where are we now we have we have a Moodle net site or at least you can open a browser and see Moodle net Japan but you can't really do anything yet it's viewable on web browsers we the mail server is not running but we'll get that done in the next couple days and users can begin to create accounts and upload content the showcase is it served us well sorry okay you know there are things that we want to to bring from the showcase of the showcase is currently a Moodle for installation and it's customized it has 10 years of content and it's accessible to existing Moodle Association of Japan site users and so we will you know we're working on that transition in the coming days where do we go from here we want to customize the Moodle net and Paul has told us a little bit about future customization options and at the moment it's that that purple login screen that you saw we're going to go about transferring content from the showcase we have oh I don't have encountered about 100 courses up there so I'd like to get those carried over to to the Moodle net we want to promote the match Moodle net and encourage content sharing among our our members and we want to get federated and we'll look to the Moodle net team on advice for advice on how to do that and server specs are very low grade at the moment but it's it's linode so it's it's upscalable as use increases we hope to upgrade the server so just some of the questions and concerns for the future well I mentioned how do we get federated how long do we keep the match showcase that's probably our biggest question right now I mean is the match showcase works and it's it's good do we hold on to it do we run the showcase side by side with Moodle net or do we you know eventually fade out the showcase one nice feature of the showcase is the you know you can experience the courses that are shared how will Moodle net allow us to try before we buy kind of thing or you know the amazon look inside sort of thing before you you send it to your Moodle we're talking with paul yesterday maybe one thing we're thinking of that we could do with the Moodle association of japan is provide kind of a sandbox Moodle so that you know people who don't have their own Moodle but want to download the course can can play with it and we have the showcase awards so how do we reward excellence and encourage contributions how do we access the opinions of other users how do how do people I mean there's a like button or it seems to be a like button but in the showcase now users can write reviews and give stars so how can people make recommendations of excellent courseware how do we develop a course with a collection or a team how will we manage contributions and how can we eventually then take ownership of our own Moodle net so time is running low that's basically where we are right now with Moodle net it's still very preliminary stage but we're excited about being part of it going forward if you have any questions or well questions now and if you would like to contact either me or or don later on here are our mail addresses so thank you very much thank you so much