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I think that's because paganism was the previous religion of most of the Arabs and thewre was a fear that some people might gradually convert back to it. People were not used to worship a God that they can't see. Later on over more than 100 years obviously things have changed and idolatry lost its base.

Hi k_nitin_r,I think the installer is running that kind of checking for a reason. If you tweak it to bypass the checking there's no guarantee that the script will work after installation is done.I managed to install these versions: 2.0.1, 2.1 and 2.3.3. The PHP settings wouldn't allow 2.4 to be installed. From my experience with Moodle I tend to obey the installer checkups otherwise there will be allays some fatal error waiting for you down the road even after the install is complete.Comparing the three installations: 2.0 is not good for me because it doesn't restore courses from 1.92.1 is cool and stable as long as you are restoring files files than 8MB (php setting limitation)2.3.4 is very slow and throws database errors every now and then.I installed version 2.4 on a free php cloud hosting and it works like a cjarm with no need to tweak the installer. I set the PHP to version 5.4 from the host cpanle.My conclusion is that Moodle 2.4 is not designed to run on shared hosting with the common php settings.. Only cloud hosting with higher versions of PHP welcomes Moodle.

Well, you said it. If it's about earning and learning then why not learnandearn or earnandlearn. For a materialistic world out there I'd prefer the second.

Sheepdog, I'm from Egypt. I started here January 25th but I spent most of my vacation in this forum. I really like it here. It's a kind of a routine that I check posts to reply or post a topic from time to time. I agree with all what you said about the arranged marriage stuff. But I tend to take the social setup into consideration when I compare different cultures. I believe that every culture chooses what best fits its own situation even if it looks unfair from a stand of view of another culture. In Egypt there's a great variety of social settings from the very liberal to the very conservative. But to give you a general idea It's common that the extended family support each other in all ways and in all circumstances. One famous poet pictured the houses in narrow streets in the old Arab cities as friends hugging each other. In modern cities we like to keep a distance. So back again to the family support, it's a give and take sort of thing. I come from a countryside background and in my family I address my uncles as "father". They also expect me to act like their own son. My uncles and my cousins are always there for me. It's always my choice to choose the family support but accept the rules or have it my own way. That applies to men and women by the way. Some women prefer the freedom to the costly price of the family support. I can't say that they're deprived from their rights as long as they can choose for themselves whether they submit to the family restrictions or challenge them. I always tell people who criticize the western cultures that they can not see it clearly from where they stand. They have to be inside it to get the full picture and they have to accept it as is. What the west does is good for the west and what the east does is good for the east. Judge Not!

The 8MB is a limitation of the maximum upload size set by the server php.ini and in a shared hosting you can't change that as you know. Inside Moodle, the settings of the maximum file upload will be always limited to that php.ini configuration. The best practice for backing up Moodle courses with large size of resources is to do the backup in several parts, that's to say backup topics 0-3 for example, then topics 4-7 and so on. Making sure that each back up part is less than the 8MB limitation. Restoring those parts will be done easily without errors. Copying the course files doesn't work in versions after Moodle .9 because files are no more visible in the data directory and consequently any work you do with the database in terms of updating tables will be pointless and might result in database errors and breaking of the db integration. From an amateur developer point of view I was very happy with Moodle 1.9 because I was able to tweak it anyway I like but in Moodle 2 I still have a lot to learn. From an administrator point of view Moodle 2 is much much better.

Updates: PHP now is 5.2.19 . I managed to install Moodle2.1 which is working fine. I tried Moodle 2.2.7 and 2.3.4 bute were not stable and script will give lots of "Error reading/writing database" error type in many ocasions. On Moodle 2.1 I managed to restore old coursed made with Moodle 1.9. But you will be always limited by a size of 8MB for your backup files otherwise the restore and backup operations will break and throw that nasty database read/write error.

In a way I try to simulate immersion by using real life situations as a context for learning where all is done in the foreign language. Still syntax rules, vocabulary and phrases are used and practiced through structured practice activites that move gradually from accuracy to fluency. Catering from students' needs will show in the selection of the content, situations and types of practice.

That's a good tip. Playing games here will be a kind of two-layer learning experience where playing is at the foreground and learning is at the background. That simulates real life learning experiences where tasks we do are in the foreground but a lot of learning takes place naturally without explicit learning instructions.

Is it me not understanding or it's your question that's difficult to understand? :)How can anybody write calculator php script without calculator?Do you mean write a php script that makes calculations without using the windows calculator application?

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The Chanba Ecological Zone was established in September 2004 and recognized as a national ecological zone in October, 2010. There are 25.3 square kilometers of wetlands, 63 species of protected animals and 181 species of plants. Those animals include about 20 kinds of very rare and valuable birds. Chanba is now an ecological zone full of energy.There you can see the Master Park, the first thing that catches your eyes is the maze garden.The garden layout is made of green brick wall structure, you can only see a 3-meter-high brick box outside the garden wall. There is a gap left between every two walls, with narrow corridors that are planted with weeping willows. The garden is spotted by more than 100 small bells, whenever it breezes, they can send harmonious sounds. When you walk through them, you are entering a green maze.

The old Arabs didn’t have much of visual art compared to other cultures around them. At the early stages of Islam, painting and sculpture were not allowed for some valid reasons at that time, now it’s not prohibited. The need for visual expression pushed the artists to create wonderful formations of ornaments using a huge variety of patterns that mainly consist of the repetitions of flora and geometric elements. At the same time the Arabic calligraphy started to take more artistic form and changed gradually from the very geometric sharp form to graceful and elegant formations. With time, the calligraphers developed strict metrics for letter shape and letter proportions. The measuring unit was the size of a diamond shape dot that is written with the same pen used for the rest of the writing. The circle shape seems to have a lot of significance in the old cultures and in Sophism. It’s the symbol of perfection. Whether the early calligraphers were aware of that or not, all Arabic letters could be seen as written in within the boundaries of a circle.

As a language teacher I find myself in different teaching situations depending on the nationalities of my students. Sometimes I teach a group of students who all have the same native language which is different from teaching a multilingual group. I’ll compare the two situations from different angles. Linguistic difficulties Monolingual Group: You can predict and focus on specific linguistic difficulties, e.g. grammar, vocabulary, individual sound problems. Multilingual Group: You have to meet a variety of very different linguistic needs. For example, pronunciation problems are often specific to different nationalities. Language of Instructions Monolingual Group: It might be the case that the teacher has the same native language as the students, or at least knows a bit of it. Here the teacher will be able to use translation as an option. Most modern language teaching methods don’t encourage the use of translation in class. Multilingual Group: Even if teachers are familiar with the native language of some of the learners, they need to be able to convey information to the whole class and can use the language that they teach, the foreign language from a stand point of students. Cultural exchange Monolingual Group: If the teachers are not from the same culture as the learners -then they can exploit this as a source of cultural exchange Multilingual Group: Often the learners come form a wide range of countries and cultures, and there is a high level of interest in this which opens up good opportunities for cultural exchange. Motivation Monolingual Group: Within the classroom the motivation to use the foreign language may be lower. Multilingual Group: The learners need to cope using the foreign language in the classroom and, if in the target language community, to manage outside the classroom using the language that they learn

Your definition is more accurate than my general analogy. I would imagine that those forgotten things are placed in deeper layers of our brain leaving room in the surface layers for other stuff that need to accessed regularly. Actually the analogy of layers still work in the case of hard disks. I remember that when we used to have hard disks with limited storage capacity there were some software that would double the size of the disk by creating a virtual layer. Also nowadays when you delete data from a disk it's not completely deleted and there are always ways to restore it.

Yes. And I find mathing what you do in class to the different learning styles of your students is the most challenging and interesting part of the job.For example instead of getting a young learner to answer some question verbally it would be a good idea if they can pick a card for the right answer, get up and stick it on the bowrd then you ask the rest of the class if they agree to the given answer. That modification involves different learning styles: visual learners, verbal learners and kinesthetic learners. It also gives an opportunity for observers to take part in that very little activity.

Most self registration websites complain about yahoo. They say they have issues with it but didn't say what kind of issues. I assume that the yahoo directs their auto reply to the bulk email folder. But that also might be the case with gmail if the email header is not written appropriately.

Nice. I first read the title as Spam Filters then came in to find a nice recipe :)Will the slices be soft or crunchy? Because I learnt a trick for making the stuff you fry crunchy. You take them out of the oil before they're golden brown and leave them a while until they're cold then complete the frying. That way you get crunchy stuff.

In my country astrologers are more clever so we have less divorce I'm kidding but we are in a very similar situation to India except for the the consultation of an astrologer. In most cases everything has to go through the family before the relation between the two is approved. To cut a long story short, marriage comes first, love comes later. You can't say to somebody: "I love your daughter" you say : " I want to marry your daughter". Then he tells you: "Come over with your family" and it all starts from there.

yes, that happens to me a lot. For me it's something like the a screen with an hourglass that doesn't respond to any mouse clicks and a message box on my forehead that says: "mamer is not responding, what shall we do with him?". Simply my system is busy and I need to leave it a lone for a while until my memory comes back. I simply stop challenging my memory and give it time and space to recover.

Thanks for the tip. I think I'm going to do that next step once I have Moodle 2.4 installed on my website. I'm not sure how this is going to work but in principle it should be ok since I'm not doing much work inside Moodle itself other than querying the database and pulling out results from certain tables according to the criteria set by the form. It might be the case of different table and field names.

If you don't like to spend much time with a class of little kids simply don't consider teaching young learners. If you enjoy their company then you'll naturally fit in and they'll most probably enjoy your teaching. Learning from experienced teachers in the field, here are some tips for effective teaching that I would like to share with you.With young learners you need to be punctual so that the learners are not left alone. Also, you will need to be organized and have a well-planned lesson. It’s essential because particularly with that age group you need to be in control of the class at all times and get them engaged in learning activities. That helps you maintain discipline. The worst thing is to have your students with nothing to do but teasing each other or making trouble and noise.Exploit your students’ knowledge of the world, interests and experience. It's important. Try to find out what your students are interested in and feed the content of your lessons with topics and activities that meet their interest. Watch them while they’re on the internet and find out what they like to do and talk about.Be yourself, be natural but keep a measured distance of respect. Respect is always important, to achieve that you will need to decide on and enforce clear ground rules. Keeping that in mind, you’ll need to strike a balance between humor and seriousness. If you're serious all the time your students will never relax and most probably will be intimidated by your presence.You need to consider each student’s needs and abilities. Some students will like activities that involve motor skills more than others so they will participate in certain activities while others will prefer to observe. You will need to plan how to occupy hose observers by assigning them appropriate roles such as voting for the best performance. That should motivate those observers to take more active part in future activities

Starting from Moodle 2 the task of installing your own Moodle on free shared hosts is becoming kind of difficult compared to the good old Moodle 1.9. The PHP version and Unicode are the most critical requirements that are not available in most free hosting services. Even if you try their script installer if it has Moodle, you end up with either a blank white page or a writing permission error that you can’t resolve. Ideally you will be ok with a PHP 5.3.2 and a MySql 5 with Unicode collation but that seems to a very difficult thing to get from a free host plan. Some providers give you a link to their cPanel demo where you can find out which PHP version they’re using. The rest don’t say anything about it and you have to register an account then login to the cPanel to find out that they don’t have what you’re looking for. You end up with many accounts that you don’t know what’s good for what. Even if they give you the possibility to select a PHP 5.4 that still doesn’t work because of the maximum execution time limit of 30 seconds or because of the lack of some critical PHP extensions. I’m not going to write any detailed information about that because I already wasted a lot of time on that. After trying out about ten different free hosting services I came across Freehostia (www.freehostia.com/) which offers limited disk storage of 250 MB but with a customizable PHP ini and a selection of a higher version of PHP. Their script installer is able to fix the problem of the Moodle data directory which needs to be outside the web root with some hack in the Moodle config.php and eventually install a working Moodle version 2.1 on your web site. But does that solve the problem? No, because after installing Moodle you’re left with about 130 MB which is not enough to host a decent Moodle course with the required course files and users’ uploads. Also changing the theme doesn’t take effect at all. The end result? I gave up looking around for any freer hosting but still have some hopes in hosting here. Can anyone share their experience in installing Moodle 2.+ on the hosting service that this forum offers?

Thank you all for your input. I agree with all what you brought up. It seems to me a kind of furum cultural difference. I'm coming from more interactive background, that's not to say you're not. Anyway, that's the good thing about making mistakes; you learn from them. Now I I knwo about necroposting which I didn't hear of before. Now let's agree on these little things: Necroposting is inot allowed and it should be highlighted somewhere in the rules for the new comers Old topics should be locked at some point of time, if not removed The voting replaces the casual short thank you post Any post that asks for help or with an explicit question should be answered by an expert in the field (sounds like more work for the moderators )

Both are fine with attachment size. That used to be a problem in the past but not any more. Anyway you wouldn't like to use large files for attachment.

Since I started here and I hear all good things. That's really assuring.I'm like you have been through almost all free services. I still haven't started hosting yet as I'm waiting for more credits but I believe it's going to be different.