New Zealand Moodle Moot conference site

For the first time ever the New Zealand Moodle Moot will be held in Auckland !

Moodle Moot NZ11 is organised by HRDNZ (Moodle Partner) and the venue is Unitec (a BIG thanks to the Unitec e-learning team!) in the City of Sails: Tuesday 26th-Thursday 28th of July, 2011 ... and we expect it will be the largest NZ Moot ever!

Bookmark this site for further news and announcements which will be made from January 2011. If you haven't been to an NZ Moodle Moot before, take a look at the short video below which captures some photos and videos of the previous Moot in 2010.

• Tuesday 26th July: Workshops for Administrators, School teachers, Mobile Moodle, and Foundation skills (newer users)
• Wednesday 27th-Thur 28th: Full two-day programme of presentations and discussions
• Conference dinner at "The Floating Pavillion"
• Keynote from Martin Dougiamas (founder and lead-developer of Moodle)
• International presenters:

Martin Dougiamas Perth, Australia	Shane Elliott Perth, Australia	Gavin Henrick UK/Canada

Martin Dougiamas
Martin requires little introduction as founder and lead developer of Moodle. Martin lives in Perth (HQ of Moodle), Australia and is a prominent educator and computer scientist with postgraduate degrees in Computer Science and Education. His work has made a significant impact on the implementation of constructivist models of teaching and learning online. His current research interests and inspiration are the application of social constructionist referents and networking to Internet technology, and the methodologies and practices of open-source software development.

Shane Elliott, Pukunui Technology
Pukunui Technology was started in 2000 by Shane Elliott in Perth, Western Australia and has quickly grown, becoming a Moodle Partner in 2004 and provide a range of Moodle related services to education and training institutions of all sizes. Shane is involved in the development of the core Moodle code. In Australia Shane is often asked what Pukunui mean? It may have something to do with his Maori ancestry or his appetite for a good steak - you'll have to ask him.

Gavin Henrick
Gavin has worked with technology in business, learning and development for more than 12 years and has extensive experience with clients delivering training and development projects in a variety of sectors - using a range of open source platforms including Moodle, Mahara, Drupal and Alfresco. He is co-author of Moodle for Business from Packt Publishing, and currently writes a blog on learning and open source. He has spent the past 4 years working for Moodle Partners: Remote-Learner in Canada, and Enovation Solutions in Ireland.