Moodle

CAIS:Moodle Share 2007: 

CAIS: Moodle Share 2007 Featuring YOU Hoover Chan, Concepcion Grande, Daniel Hudkins, Cyrus Merrill, Angela Neff, Donna Ward Contact: angelaN@harker.org faculty.harker.org/angelaN

What is Moodle?: 

What is Moodle? Centralized Learning Management System that provides information access to Web 2.0 tools and digital content in one centralized location. Web 2.0 Product and Service Listings

Session Goals:: 

Session Goals: Introduce new and developing users to the Moodle tool set. Understand the place for Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom Integrate new approaches and attitudes towards education. To organize and share ours and your Moodle practices and resources

Zone of Proximal Development: 

Zone of Proximal Development Learning happens by working alongside someone who’s just that bit further on the road than you are. Community of Practice Characteristics —Legitimate peripheral participation —Joint enterprise —Mutual engagement —Shared repertoire

Future-Learners Charter: 

Future-Learners Charter To have access to different teaching and learning approaches and resources that meet my needs. To have access to people who are able to extend and develop my understanding in my chosen areas. To have access to learning environments and resources that enable me to develop my understanding and experience in authentic and appropriate contexts.

Moodle: Current Strengths: 

Moodle: Current Strengths Digital Distribution of Resources Digital Activities Metacognition Social Constructivism

Basic questions to ask when using Moodle?: 

Basic questions to ask when using Moodle? What is it you want your students to know and do? What resources do they need to achieve these goals? How can Moodle help you deepen and extend traditional classroom learning (new approaches and attitudes)

Moodle Layout: 

Moodle Layout Layout Left: People and Administration Center: Content and Activities Right: Communication On-line Help Realtime learning question marks Moodledocs

Moodle Modules: Dense: 

Moodle Modules: Dense Assignment Chat Choice Forum Glossary Lesson Quiz Resource Scorm Survey Wiki Workshop Resources from Michelle Moore at RemoteLearner.net

Assignment Module: 

Assignment Module Used to assign tasks Online or offline Allows electronic submission Due dates added to course calendar

Chat Module: 

Chat Module 'Anytime, anywhere' communication Scheduled or spontaneous Chat transcripts available

Choice Module: 

Choice Module Informal survey tool Create questions and provide choices for participants Results can be posted with identities or anonymously

Forum Module: 

Forum Module Provides areas for group discussions Can be restricted Only teacher can post Student can only post once Posts may only be allowed in a specific time frame Posts can be rated

Glossary Module: 

Glossary Module Create course dictionaries Entries can be linked to use in course Can search by key words Glossary additions can be restricted Can allow comments or ratings

Lesson Module: 

Lesson Module Provide content and assess learning in one activity Creates a series of linked pages Can create flash cards or lessons with multiple branches

Quiz Module: 

Quiz Module Create and give online quizzes Variety of question formats Option for immediate feedback Questions and answers can be shuffled Can require password or specific network address Option to set time limit Variety of statistics provided for teacher

Resource Module: 

Resource Module Tool for bringing content into the course Text files HTML files Links to webpages Video and audio clips Directory feature available

Wiki Module: 

Wiki Module Enables student collaboration Students work together to create web pages or resources Students can add content or edit content submitted by others Teachers can track student drafts to see evolution of writing

Workshop Module: 

Workshop Module Tool for peer editing Students submit assignment online Assignments are distributed to peers Students assess with rubric supplied by teacher

SCORM Module: 

SCORM Module SCORM refers to the standard for learning objects Web pages Javascript Flash Allows incorporation of SCORM packages into course

Peter Richardson Links: 

Peter Richardson Links http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/ Moodle Pedagogy http://learn.humboldt.edu/course/view.php?id=3765 Faculty Moodle Support and Resources http://moodle.remote-learner.net/course/view.php?id=3 Remote Learner: Support and course hosting http://www.moodlemoot.org Moodlemoot (Register for Conference Resources)

Resources: 

Resources http://moodle.org/login/index.php Moodle.org http://demo.moodle.org/ Moodle Demo version 1.8 http://remote-learner.net Remote Leaner.net http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=6140 Moodle Buzz, Web Articles on Moodle http://elgg.net/moodlenews/dashboard/ Moodle, Article aggregator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle Wikipedia: Moodle http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teacher_documentation Moodle, Teacher Documentation

Resources from Miles Berry : 

Resources from Miles Berry Email Miles: mberry@bcs.org http://elgg.net/mberry/weblog/ NAACE http://www.naace.org/ Transformed Education http://www.future-learning.net/ Report on Future Learning http://future-learning.net/effective_learning_platforms.pdf

Panel and Questions: 

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Moodle Do’s: 

Moodle Do’s Do encourage students to learn together through shared Moodle-based experiences Do encourage students to be security-conscious Do start small but think big Do save, save, save Do show students how the logs work Do enter brief, helpful summaries for your resources Do set an enrollment key Do encourage students to think before they post Do teach students to modify subjects in forums

More Moodle Do’s: 

More Moodle Do’s Do encourage student feedback about course structure, usability, content etc. Do create custom grading scales Do use labels to appropriately (divide/annotate your course sections/weeks) Do set up your new course (weeks/topics, number of sections, etc...) prior to importing/overwriting with another course

Moodle Don’ts: 

Moodle Don’ts Don't let Moodle overwhelm you Don't dominate discussions Don't assume that the coolness of Moodle will inspire or motivate students Don't violate copyright laws Don't forget to check users' profiles Don't encourage users to run Power Point presentations in their browsers Don't be afraid to experiment

More Do’s and Don’ts and…Ideas From the Trenches: 

More Do’s and Don’ts and… Ideas From the Trenches

Forum Postings: 

Forum Postings When posting to the News Forum all subscribers receive each posting—not optional Users designate whether they want the forum responses to come to them as a digest or individual e-mails in their preferences. (can you have different prefs for different courses? Users can choose to be a subscriber to each Forum in their forums listing. You can look up info on an individual by going to:  Participants (located in the left hand block)andgt; click on a user name andgt; select log-in as this user.

Display a Directory: 

Display a Directory To make a document available to a group, use the 'display a directory' function. Go to the Files area of your course (in Administration block) Click on 'make a folder', give it a name, click create. Click on it to enter the directory. Now you want to browse and upload the document that you want to make available. Having done this, return to the main course outline and make sure that Editing is switched on. Find the weekly or topic block that you want to present the file in and choose Add a resource -andgt; Display a directory Give the resource a name, perhaps, 'Excel files' and in the summary say what kind of spreadsheets are going here. Pull down Display a directory and choose the 'Excel documents' directory. Click Save changes. Now the contents of this directory will be displayed to your users when they click the resource link.

To add an event to a calendar: 

To add an event to a calendar Turn editing on andgt; Click on the calendar month you wish to add event to. Click new event in the upper right andgt; choose course event (do not choose site event as it will send the event to everyone in the school—not good.) The day you added the event to will be highlighted in pink in the calendar.

FYI’s: 

FYI’s Put all resources for use throughout course in top sticky block Topics use (as units) is a nice way to organize so some prefer weekly view\can hide weeks that are not in use with the eye tool. If you do not respond to chat message it goes to the teachers e-mail Any dated activity you create (assignments, etc.) automatically appear in the calendar

Forum Tips: 

Forum Tips Create a new Forums for each unit/topic Force everyone to be subscribed: yes initially (so that they know a new forum has been started) Read tracking: on Only teachers can rate posts Students can only see their ratings To print complete forum content choose, 'Display replies flat, with newest first', in the pop up menu located in the top-center of the page. This is the default setting so if you do not change it all will be well Group mode: separate groups

More Forum Tips: 

More Forum Tips --Users can choose to be a subscriber to each Forums in their forums listing if teacher allows --What about setting individual or digests option for each class --When I create a new forum the forum is added to each group (include the format in the forum description) --All forums are added to the course thus all users get the prompts: choose separate groups so they can only view their classmates. Q andamp; A Forum hides others postings/answers untilthe student has answered.

Wiki Tips: 

Wiki Tips Disable camel case linking if you leave out the space before a capital letter a ? is inserted: because that is how wiki 'programming' works. Example: theEnd http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Welcome Free: 1,250,788 files and 56,783 collections (numbers in English notation)

Quiz Tips : 

Quiz Tips Always use multiple passwords so kids can’t take test when they are not in the class. Show quiz in a secure window 2 attempts to sign on Can reorder/shuffle questions for each class

Advanced Assignment Use: 

Advanced Assignment Use Teachers download assignments from Moodle, make comments and upload the commented/graded file back to the students in Moodle Allows you to upload more than one file at a time.

Food for Thought, Web 2.0: 

Food for Thought, Web 2.0 'What if I could tag e-learning courses the same way I can tag Flickr photos? What if learners could click on the 'Did I find this learning useful?' button, like Amazon, and content creators with higher ratings were bonused and those with lower ratings were replaced? In order for online learning to get better with use, courses need to be revised much faster, learners need to be able to create meta information about the learning (allowing more context in searching), and each module needs to behave more like a web service.' excerpt taken from: http://learning20.blogspot.com/

Course Deleting and Renaming: 

Course Deleting and Renaming From the categories, click on the course category and you should get a listing of courses.  You can delete from that menu. Yes, you can change the class name and short name from the properties menu in the course itself.

Adding Resources: 

Adding Resources Upload files into course through the file manager Then add a resource into the calendar Create a link to it Add a new resource andgt; choose to add a link and link to uploaded file or a web address.

Moodle and Constructivism: 

Moodle and Constructivism Constructivism—people actively construct knowledge as they interact with their environment Social constructivism—knowledge gets constructed by being part of a learning community, and through conversation and the interchange of ideas Constructionism—learning is particularly effective when constructing something for others to experience Social constructionism—a social group constructing things for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artefacts with shared meanings From Miles Berry, Moodlemoot ’06 presentation

Harker: New Practices: 

Harker: New Practices Students want to use information sources with more credibility when designing wikis because their input is being viewed by peers as well as teacher(s), instructional technologist(s), and librarian(s) Easier to communicate with students about research/citation matters (can communicate virtually and a record is kept) Moodle imprints a time/date on all work so that progress can be tracked (librarian know when research is being hurried or student is losing their way

New Practices: 

New Practices Using forums to overcome the 'Horshak' effect for in-class discussions. Use Online messaging for night before a test questions. Wikis for study guides. Ease of managing assignments turned in to me, etc. (date stamped…and clearly turned in or not turned in…

New Practices: 

New Practices Ease of making an online an assignment or web page…in 5 minutes Allows kids to see their quiz scores immediately after taking them and even reading feedback from me if I want to put it in as part of the quiz… Using the discussion forum for feedback in a course on book talking. Having grouped content for each author’s feedback helped.

New Practices: 

New Practices Using the group folders for group projects allows private areas for groups working on parallel or similar topics. This was helpful for a collection development class where we split into groups by special population. Embedding content from a variety of sources in one place: Videos, utilities, saved searches, downloads, and plain old links really add to a class. Global Education Projects: Removes the time zone issue

New Practices: 

New Practices Social metacognition (forums and wikis) Forum: Its amazing see the posting from beginning Spanish students Resources:  Students enjoy having all materials in one place and I don’t have to keep hundreds of different handouts for 'just in case they loose them'  Rate course materials: films, books, images, links Exceptionally useful for grammar guides and vocabulary lists.

New Practices: 

New Practices Activities:  Students can upload files (web sites, video, wikis, text, audio etc.), reload the corrected versions and teacher can grade anywhere without carrying tons of loose papers. Resource sharing: favorite web sites, videos, images, etc. Sharing content outside of class as homework: saves precious class time Peer review Uploading files: Audio, PowerPoint , video, text docs

From: Martin Dougiamas’moodlemoot ’06 presentation: 

From: Martin Dougiamas’ moodlemoot ’06 presentation All of us are potential teachers as well as learners - in a true collaborative environment we are both. We learn particularly well from the act of creating or expressing something for others to see We learn a lot by just observing the activity of our peers By understanding the contexts of others, we can teach in a more transformational way (constructivism) A learning environment needs to be flexible and adaptable, so that it can quickly respond to the needs of the participants within it