Technology

As a missionary in a far off land, have you ever wanted to translate evangelistic material, discipleship resources, or a good training guide into the language of the people you're trying to reach? Have you ever wondered if it's legal to do so if you or your organization did not create the resources? Do you know how to get permission to translate the resource?

Tim Jore of Distant Shores Media and Door 43 discusses these issues and many more in his recent presentation at the Mobile Ministry Forum consultation. See the MMF Blog for videos of more interesting topics covered at the December 2011 consultation meeting.

Mobile Ministry Forum Consultation 2011 - Enabling Open Collaboration in a Mobile World from Clyde Taber on Vimeo.

Brian Ward of Mission Aviation Fellowship's Learning Technologies division discusses how MAF-LT helps ministries move forward with distance education and mobile learning. This presentation was given at the December, 2011, meeting of the Mobile Ministry Forum.

Mobile Ministry Forum Consultation 2011 - MAF-LT and Mobile Ministry from Clyde Taber on Vimeo.

 We are pleased to announce the 1.04 release of the Ibidem Digital Library System. This release adds tracking of Item cloning. When an Item is cloned (duplicated), a link to its Parent Item will be shown.

This is useful for situations like the Telemensahe project. They have message scripts that get recorded and translated. Each derivative of a message will point back to the original Item.

 We are pleased to announce V1.03 of the Ibidem digital library system. The major new functionality is the ability to import a batch of items.

Please see the release notes for more details.

Learning Technologies just finished reworking our product surveys.  We're hoping the surveys will be quick and easy.  We wanted the surveys to be informative, helping us leverage our tools in ministry.  Help us make better products by sharing your experience.  Take a survey today! 

• DEScribe Survey
• DEViewer Survey
• Ibidem Survey
• LTGreenstone Survey
• Moodle Survey
• Poodle Survey
• The Little Library

The 2.1 Beta version of Portable Moodle, also known as Poodle is now available to download.

We are releasing this version as a Beta because the 2.x versions of Moodle have increased server requirements.  As a result, the Miniserver (the platform Poodle is built upon) does not meet those requirements.  In order to get a functioning 2.x Poodle we had to bypass some of the PHP modules that Moodle is now requiring.  This Beta version of Poodle uses the following software:

• PortableApps v1.6
• Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.6.3
• Sumatra PDF Portable 1.0.1
• Moodle 2.1 (Build: 20110701)
• MoodleStart.exe 1.0
• The miniServer 21 v2 (Modified to run PHP 5.3.6)

Please be aware that the following PHP modules (which are not included in Poodle) are required for a proper installation/upgrade of a Moodle.  Any Moodle module or functionality built on these PHP modules will probably not function well in Poodle.

• curl
• ssl
• intl
• soap

Documentation of the upgrade process can be found on the MAF-LT forums.  Additionally, MAF-LT is interested in releasing development of the Poodle to the greater Moodle community.  If you are interested in the Poodle project in this capacity, please contact us.