moodle

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moodle (third-person singular simple present moodles, present participle moodling, simple past and past participle moodled)

1. To dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away.
   • 1931, Bernard Shaw, Music in London, 1890-94, page 154:

     Over a sonata by Schubert he — well, I suppose I must not say that he moodled, or maundered, or anything of that sort.

   • 2002, Elijah Mirochnik, Debora Claiborne Sherman, Passion and Pedagogy, page 354:

     The Poet moodles (from Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write). She fools around, meanders, and takes time for feelings and not just ideas.

   • 2006, J. Barrie Shepherd, Whatever Happened to Delight?, page 69:

     I cannot begin to count the number of times I have moodled, set a sermon aside, often in midstream, and taken a walk through the church gardens, or around the city block, even caught a brief nap on the study sofa; in other words, I have let my mind lie fallow, and then returned to the task with inspiration renewed.

   • 2015, Paige Britt, The Lost Track of Time, page 62:

     She moodled all day and all night. Hundreds of tiny notions streamed from her head and ideas bounced back and forth, but no real possibilities formed.

moodle (plural moodles)

1. Alternative form of Moodle
   • 2008, Grace Sammon, Creating and Sustaining Small Learning Communities, page 207:

     Better yet, take advantage of shared drives, moodles, and blogs as online resources.

   • 2011, Michael Anderson, David Cameron, John Carroll, Drama Education with Digital Technology:

     We could equally explore the potential of wikis, drupals, moodles and other software for reflecting on performance making.

   • 2013, Joni Turville, Differentiating By Student Learning Preferences, page 97:

     Share what has been created in a binder or consider high-tech collaboration tools such as blogs, wikis, or moodles.

   • 2014, Nikku Bala Raju, Hatta Zulkarnain Ahmad, Social Work Education and Practice, page 64:

     The institute continuously strives to host training programs for teachers and students to develop and learn course contents using 'moodles' available for teaching and learning activities.

   • 2022, T Ravikumar, R. Anuradha, R Rajesh, N. Prakash, “Smartphone Usage, Social Media Engagement, and Academic Performance”, in V. Suma, editor, Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks, page 362:

     The students do not only use smartphones and social media for entertainment, but they use them for information sharing, content sharing, academic peer group discussion, accessing learning websites and applications, and for accessing moodles.

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