11/10/09

Yes!  You heard right!  I am offering completely  FREE HOSTING for Moodle Based Teaching Sites!

*** If this looks complicated, it isn't.  Just send me an email to bill@tennesseebill.com and ask for your FREE MOODLE site.  Tell me your name and whether you want email addresses, if you want a moodle site, there are three domains to choose from (below).  Tell me the domain(s) you want your moodle site at and i'll set it up. 

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If you would like a Moodle site, send me an email with your desired ADMIN name (admin is fine!) and your initials.  The format of the Moodle sites are domain.com/xy... xy are your initials.  I can still setup a subdomain for you (yourname.OnlineCommunitySchool.com) and if you want a subdomain, i need the name you want to use as your subdomain. 

send me the name of your MOODLE 'site', a motto and a description too.

I will set up Moodle with your ADMIN name and i'll assign a password.  You should change the password to one of your choosing.  I'll issue a 'strong' password and keep a record of it in case you keep the password I assign and you loose it.  If you loose or forget a password you create, I don't know if I can fix that problem, so please, if you change your password, make it a strong password ( I-7*9(&^ ).  No one will guess a password like that!  If you would like some POP3 email accounts, just give me the names you want, and i'll create them for you.  I can create your email accounts 'on the domain', youremail@OnlineCommunitySchool.com or on your subdomain.  I will also need to know which domain you would like your free Moodle account on.

If you would like pop3 email accounts, i'll give you some of those too!

You want your own domain?  Well, you'll have to pay for that.  I can register your domain for 2 years for $30.00 and set it up with your free hosting.  Yahoo charges $29.00 per year for domain registrations.  This host that I am using charges $15.00 per year.  The host that I will register your domain name with charges about $11.00 per year and I like to register for a minimum of 2 years.  3 years will run you $40.00. 

you can send the domain fees by paypal to bill@tennesseebill.com or register it yourself at your favorite registrar and i'll send you the nameservers to use.

Remember, you don't need to have your own domain name.  You can have your own subdomain for free!

The subdomains for the Moodle Teaching Sites can be at OnlineCommunitySchool.com or OnlineLearningAcadamy.com and if you would like to have a Christian teaching site, you can have a moodle site at EyeOnTheCross.com .  The two teaching sites don't have a home page built yet, but when they do, there will be links to all the moodle sites hosted there.

if you have html skills and would like to whip up simple home pages for the two domains, that would be very helpful!

You are free to charge for courses or offer them for free, or a combination of both.  If you are a school teacher, this is an excellent opportunity to offer additional course material, remedial teaching or even extra credit!

tennesseebill

There is no organization or corporation running this site, it is just one person.  One person who went through those 750 Gigs of shows to try to clean up the filenames, and find copies of the shows with the best audio quality.  I'm certain that better encodes exist of many of the files on the site, and when I find them, I'll post them on the site for the public to download.

It is also one person financing all the sites above and about a dozen more.  I get a little help when people donate a little money, I also get a little help when people see that there is a show that they have and I don't, and they mail me some cds or dvds with the shows on them.  I have affiliate links on my Old Time Radio Site, and they are all for companies that I buy from and trust.  As expected, very few people use those links to shop.  That's ok.  I expected to fund all of these sites for quite some time. 

Why the free Moodle sites?  I would like to develop some courses (someday when i have time!) and I found two domain names that were available for purchase that I liked.  I registered them for 3 years each.  I imagine that there are at least hundreds of people who would love to have their own Moodle site, but don't have the technical skills to install the Moodle package, and possibly many of those same people would find the costs of hosting prohibiting, especially in this economy.  It is possible that when the economy improves that I will charge a small fee for new signups with moodle or the otr hosting.  It is also possible that I won't.  In any case, all who are signed up now, won't get charged at any time.  I am assuming that my hosting charges won't change in the future.

So, I guess the bottom line is:  There is no catch, no strings.  I just want to do what I can to help people in a way that I am able.

Tennesseebill