You are invited to join the opening ceremony of the first Moodle MOOC of its kind hosted by Dr. Nellie Deutsch and Jason R. Levine also known as Fluency MC and Ambassador and Knowledge Entertainer at WiZiQ. The highlight of the opening ceremony is our very special guest Martin Dougiamas . Martin Dougiamas is the brain child and developer of Moodle . Teaching with Moodle is a self-paced 4-week Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for teachers and anyone interested in teaching online using Moodle, WizIQ, and other web technologies. The course will take place in the month of June 2013. The MOOC is in the spirt of open education and is completely free. Participants will become acquainted with Moodle as a course and learning management system. They will learn how Moodle can be used in fully online, blended learning, and the flipped class. The course will include both asynchronous (not dependent on time) and synchronous (time dependent) elements. The course is self-paced with ongoing discussions (facilitator and technical support available), live online classes (recordings), videos, and other relevant content. Unlike the traditional MOOCs that stress content and course delivery, Moodle MOOC will focus on active learning, reflection, sharing, and collaboration. The aim of the course is for the participants to learn through meaningful connections and social interactions. The MOOC and the live online classes will be moderated by Dr. Nellie Deutsch and facilitated by Dr. Nancy Zingrone, Dr. Ramesh Sharma, and Judith Behrens (doctoral student).

1. Moodle MOOC
Opening Ceremony
May 31, 2013

2. Introductions & Entertainment

3. Facilitators of Moodle MOOC
Dr. Nancy Zingrone
Jason R. Levine
Dr. Ramesh Sharma
Dr. Ludmila Smirnova
Judith Behrens
Dr. Nellie Deutsch

4. Dr. Nellie Deutsch
Nellie (Ed.D) has been teaching English to speakers of
other languages (EFL) since the mid 70s. She has been
integrating technology (computer assisted language
learning or CALL) into her classes since the mid 90s.
Nellie's doctoral dissertation research (available on
ProQuest, Amazon) focused on instructor experiences with
implementing technology in blended learning courses in
higher education around the world.
Nellie is passionate in sharing her expertise with Moodle,
WizIQ, WebQuests, Google Drive, and active lifelong
learning strategies with everyone. She is internationally
known as a transformative leader, community builder, an
expert in educational technology, coordinator of online
professional development courses, and mentor to
educators worldwide.
Email:
nelliedeutsch@gmail.com
Twitter: @nelliemuller

5. Dr. Nancy Zingrone
Nancy L. Zingrone (Nan for short) has a PhD in
psychology, an MSEd in higher education with a
teaching specialty in psychology and is passionate about
Moodle, WizIQ, and online education in general. She
conducts survey research in the psychology of
exceptional and anomalous experiences, blogs about
learning, and is a Premium Teacher on WizIQ.
Her avatar, Maggie Larimore, is an active member of the
International Society for Technology in Education's
social committee, as well as the manager of a learning
center in the Chilbo Community on the Mainland of the
virtual world, Second Life.
Website: www.theazire.org
Blog: nanzingrone.wordpress.com

6. Jason R. Levine
Jason R Levine (Jase, for short) has nearly fifteen years of
experience in ELT as a teacher, teacher trainer, and materials writer.
He is the creator of ColloLearn, an approach to English language
learning based on the songs he writes and performs as Fluency MC.
Jase is Ambassador and Knowledge Entertainer at WizIQ. He also
teaches in the online MA TESOL program at the New School and
writes songs and chants for several publishers, including Oxford
University Press. He is chair-elect of the TESOL Interest Group Video
and Digital Media and works as an English Specialist for the U.S.
Department of State.
Jase oversees the ColloLearn YouTube channel, where his videos
receive an average of 100,000 views per month and the Fluency MC
Facebook page with over 16,000 members.
After earning an MA in TESOL from Hunter College in 1999, Jase
taught at several schools before becoming the director of curriculum
development for Embassy CES. In 2002, he co-founded a TOEFL
preparation school for international students in New York City.
Email:
collolearn@gmail.com
Twitter: @fluencymc
Facebook: @fluencymc

7. Dr. Ramesh Sharma
Ramesh has been working as Regional Director
of Indira Gandhi National Open University, India
since 1995. Prior to that he has taught
Educational Technology, Teaching of Sciences,
Educational Research etc for B.Ed. and M.Ed.
students for nearly a decade. From 2009 to 2011
he has worked as Director of Institute of Distance
and Continuing Education, University of Guyana,
Guyana (South America). He is a facilitator for
online workshops for IT4ALL. Further he is a
member of OER Foundation and manages UPE
monthly Awards for WikiEducator along with
Nellie. He has developed courses based on
Moodle and has been providing training to the
teachers on the same. He is co-editor of Asian
Journal of Distance Education.
Email: rcsharma@ignou.ac.in
Twitter: @rc4u2nv
Facebook: rc4u2nv

8. Dr. Ludmila Smirnova
Ludmila Smirnova is a Professor of Education at Mount Saint Mary
College, Newburgh, NY, USA, where she has taught for the past 12
years. At the Mount, she offers courses in Curricular Planning, Methods
of Teaching and Teaching with Technology. She has become
increasingly recognized for her leadership in the application of emerging
Internet technologies to education. She has run numerous workshops on
the application of Smart Technologies and Web 2.0 tools to the college
and primary/secondary classrooms. Prior to coming to the Mount, Dr.
Smirnova was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical
University, Russia, where she also served as Dean of the School of
Foreign Languages. During her 25-year Russian career, Dr. Smirnova
was known for her work in innovative approaches to teaching. Beyond
the seventy publications based upon her work in Russia, Dr. Smirnova
has written for and presented to a growing list of professional audiences
in the U.S. and abroad. She is a co-designer and co-facilitator of the
Moodle for Teachers workshops at IT4ALL. Together with Dr. Nellie
Deutsch she trained thousands of educators, presented numerous M4T
workshops worldwide and wrote chapters in the books about teaching
with technology.
Email:
smirnova@msmc.edu
FB, Twitter:
@milasunshine

9. Judith Behrens
Judith Behrens is currently working working on her PhD in
Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) through Keiser
University's online program. She received her second
Master's of Science degree in the realm of Educational
Technology through Devry-Keller Graduate School of
Management in 2011. Ms. Judi (as she prefers to be called)
discovered Moodle and what it has to offer teachers and
instructional designers in the fall of 2010. She self taught
herself how to use the Moodle CMS tool until after her last
class ended, when she had more time, she enrolled in
Nellie's classes on the IT4ALL Moodle course site. Judi
graduated from Nellie's classes in December 2011. She
was brought on board the IT4ALL facilitator team. Ms.
Behrens values the openness of Nellie's classes. Being a
part of the IT4ALL team has opened a few doors. Judi is
now a volunteer Moodle designer with WiredSafety.org. Ms.
Behrens now has her own Moodle website through IT4ALL.
judith.behrens@
gmail.com
FB, Twitter:
@JudibeeFL
Skype ID: JudibeeFL

10. Facilitators

11. Presenters

12. Slide 11
1 Any help on the bios for the presenters is welcome.
Nellie Deutsch,

13. Martin Dougiamas
Martin Dougiamas (born August 1969), lives in
Perth, Australia and is an educator and computer
scientist with postgraduate degrees in Computer
Science and Education. His work has made a
significant impact on the implementation of
constructivist models of teaching and learning online
with Moodle, a Course Management System.
His current research interests and inspiration are the
application of social constructionist referents and
networking to Internet technology, and the
methodologies and practices of open-source
software development.
Dougiamas's PhD thesis is entitled "The use of
Open Source software to support a social
constructionist epistemology of teaching and
learning within Internet-based communities of
reflective inquiry. (Wikipedia)

14. Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes (born April 6, 1959) is a designer
and commentator in the fields of online learning and
new media. Downes has explored and promoted the
educational use of computer and online technologies
since 1995.[1] In 2008, Downes and George Siemens
designed and taught an online, open course reported
as a "landmark in the small but growing push toward
'open teaching."
Born in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) Downes lived
and worked across Canada before joining the
National Research Council of Canada as a senior
researcher in November 2001. Currently based in
Moncton, New Brunswick, Downes is a researcher at
the NRC's Institute for Information Technology's e-
Learning Research Group. (Wikipedia)

15. Vance Stevens
Vance’s career includes CALL coordinator,
software developer, lecturer in ESL and
computing, founder of Webheads as well as
CALL-IS in TESOL, and facilitator in TESOL's
online professional development programs. On
the boards of APACALL, TESL-EJ, CALL
Journal, and Writing & Pedagogy, he encourages
people to have F.U.N. and think SMALL.
Vance founded and has led the Webheads since
1997. Today, Vance coordinates
Learning2Gether.

16. Dr. Bryan Alexander
Bryan holds a Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan and taught English and information
technology studies as faculty at Centenary College
of Louisiana. Bryan lives up in the Green
Mountains of Vermont with his beloved family,
many animals, and a great many trees. There he
bakes, lifts weights, carries wood, and thinks about
movies.
Bryan is a researcher, futurist, teacher, writer,
speaker, and consultant, working in the field of
technology and academia. He is the senior fellow
for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal
Education (NITLE).

17. Dave Cormier
Manager, Web communications and innovations,
University of Prince Edward Island. Principal,
Edactive Technologies.
Masters of Education, Educational Literacies -
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS
Edtechtalk (2005, June - present) Host of weekly,
live interactive webcasts at http://edtechtalk.com
on topics around education and technology.
AACE Global U - Trends and Implications for
Learning (2009, Massive Open Online Courses.
Co-faciliated several MOOCs with over 5000 total
registrants in an attempt to both explore the
concepts of a Massive Open Online Course and
concepts are futures thinking for education.

18. John Graves
John Graves, a Ph.D student studying open source software
development at Auckland University of Technology in New
Zealand and the development of a voice-enabled interfaces
for chatterbot dialog using Python.
Systems Analyst, Quantitative Analyst, Portfolio Manager,
Multimedia Developer, Founder of SlideSpeech, Co-founder
or Work the Room.
Developed Slidespeech: http://slidespeech.com
SlideSpeech is the disruptive mobile, global, collaborative
technology poised to bring on-line learning to everyone,
everywhere. Authors simply create a PowerPoint
presentation and add a script in the speaker notes of each
slide.

19. Dr. Maria Droujkova
Dr. Maria Droujkova designs, develops and writes about
learning experiences for diverse people and situations:
early algebra games for pre-K groups of children; Math
Clubs and the Family Online Studies for family-centered
communities; classes and seminars for k-20 and
graduate students; and seminars, workshops and
classes for preservice and inservice teachers. She has
an MS in Applied Mathematics from Tulane University
and PhD in Mathematics Education from NCSU. My
studies have been supported by grants, and published
and presented nationally and internationally.
Her latest project is Moebius Noodles
http://crowdin.net/project/MoebiusNoodles and an
online book http://moebiusnoodles.com/TheBook, the
first book of a series that you can download.

20. Happy Moodling!
Moodle MOOC