1. Its not obvious what Moodle is. The best way is to have a play. Opensourcecms.com is a really useful site that I have used to test various open source php projects. The best thing is that you can play at been administrator on these sites – if you just want to play at being teacher you can use my site (see below)
2. I’ve also bought the new O’Reilly book off Amazon which is not great but certainly useful and provides some insight into ways of using Moodle in actually teaching practice but has too many noddy “this is how you upload an image” pages.
3. I set up Moodle on my OpenK hosting account OpenK Moodle Feel free to check it out and contact me if you want a user id – richard.drake at google’s email service
Happy Moodling
