I’m sure that you’ve heard of the 15 minutes of fame. Part of my 15 minutes of fame goes to GitHub (is there a thing such as GitHub famous?). I chatted with Mr. Green about the icon for WordSelect. I made a couple of suggestions on a different icon. Even though I did very little, he still nicely placed a “shout out” to me in the GitHub notes.

New [w] icon with a hint of red. Added an svg vector version so no pixelation on zoom. Credit to Troy Patterson for ideas and inspiration on the icon

Marcus Green does some really great work. He has developed the  Gapfill plugin, which I really like, as well as some others. (Gapfill is a very thoughtful implementation of a Cloze activity).

His latest plugin is WordSelect. This is another terrific plugin for Moodle. WordSelect allows you to do exactly what it says, select words. The teacher simply notes the words that will be the correct answer by putting square brackets around the word.

There are several ways to use this new plug in. Teachers could use this for grammar (have students select all of the verbs for example). Teachers could use this to have students identify the correct entries on a table (find all of the mammals listed below). Teachers could also add a number to each sentence and ask students to identify the sentence that is the topic sentence (or which sentence supports a specific idea).

Anyway, Marcus Green is fine human who has done some great work supporting student learning. We need more people like Mr. Green. Now go install the plugin and get to creating.