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Do you still think Moodle is boring?
Do you run out of ideas of how to use Moodle with your learners?
Do you want to improve retention and achievement?
This slideshow will give you fresh and new ideas to boost up your Moodle course.
Find out why you should use Moodle to promote learning, collaboration and communication, discover how to support and engage your learners and how to offer an interactive and rich learning experience.
After watching the slideshow, you will have an idea of what Moodle is capable of. Your next step is to learn how to create the activities suggested, such as Forums, Chats, Quizzes, internet embedded content, etc…
In the videos’ section you can find already a podcast that shows you the potential of a forum, how to use it with your learners and how to create it on Moodle.
There are more podcasts being created that will cover other activities.
Moodle is here because it saves us time and makes things much better for your learners.
Now… click and enjoy the show!
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1. Extreme Makeover Web
Addition:
Wikis & Moodle
August 4, 2009
Presented by:
Susan Hefley
2. Wiki? Moodle? What?
What is your schema? What do you already know about these?
Are you more like Peg, the school nurse? Can you define Twitter,
MySpace, Wikis, Texting and Moodle? Do you use these?
Are you like the young teacher who knows what they are but does
not USE them?
Are you the young band teacher that uses each of them and can
text at a million words a minute?
3. Overview
Goal One: Learn what a wiki is, how it can be used
in classrooms, and how to create one using
WikiSpace or PBworks.
Goal Two: Learn what Moodle is, how it can be used
in classrooms and address other specific concerns
YOU might have.
Goal Three: Play time. Time to experiment and play
with wikis, Moodle or both.
4. Wikis
• What is a wiki
– Learn more by watching this video
• What is wikipedia? Plus more about
the wiki world.
• Basically….a collaborative website
• How are wikis used?
– Collaboration
– Large Projects
– Online Presentations
– Organization of knowledge and input
5. How can TEACHERS use a wiki?
• Provide students with a new format for free writing
• Offer students a new approach for peer editing and peer responses
• Give teachers a forum to create collaborative projects
• Share resources with students
• Create a portfolio of work for each student or class
• Create a class project
• Support service learning projects
Is a wiki safe for my students?
Wikis, like any online product, do have their risks, but with careful
planning and purposeful teaching, many of these can be eliminated
or negated. Most importantly caution and prohibit students from
giving out any personal information on the Internet.
6. Wiki Guidelines
What you tell students: What you tell parents:
Do not put any personal Student’s personal
information on this page information is not posted
(last name, school on this website
name, teacher’s name, e-
mail address, home Projects are designed to
address, etc.) provide students with
practice for their writing
Students using wikis are skills and to improve their
expected to treat the wiki computer and Internet
as a classroom space. skills in a collaborative
Speech that is manner
inappropriate for class is
not appropriate for your
wiki.
7. Ready to see a real wiki?
There are two major sites that offer wikis to
teachers,Wikispaces and PBworks.
Both offer similar features, but there are slight differences
(click here to learn the differences).
Click on the links below to see similar sites at
bothWikispacesandPBWorks. Feel free to poke around,
press the edit button and get a feel for the site.
WikiSpaces
PBWorks
8. More example education wikis
Greenville, PA 5th grade class: REALLY well thought out wiki for use with
current, former and future 5th graders.
Benson School Library (make sure you check out the Dewey Decimal
projects!)This site uses many uploaded videos and video widgets…..might
give you some ideas for YOUR wiki!
Crosby Kennett Middle School, Amistad Incident: Student generated
content about the Amistad incident and the Industrial Revolution. This was
an introductory project for our students and some of our teachers.
Individual Teacher’s Wiki (used as a simple webpage)
Arbor Heights Elementary: an impressive use of a wiki to create a district
page.
Spanish class with student created pages.
9. Play Time!
Ready to make your own wiki?
Choose which you want.
Both have the same basic steps.
WikiSpaces
PBWorks Playtime
Over, on to
Moodle!
10. References
Cunningham, Ward. "What is Wiki." Wiki.org. 27
June 2002. 12 Feb 2008
<http://www.wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki>.
11. Moodle
What is Moodle?
Watch this video to learn the basic concept
Course Management Software
Freeware
How is Moodle used?
Moodle is normally used by entire schools and school districts to:
Store
Communicate
Evaluate
Collaborate
TEACH!
12. Moodle Basics
Just a few of Moodle’s MANY features
View the features on our example Moodle site. To find this site
visit this link:
http://moodle.miu4.k12.pa.us/
Username: admin
Password: golddot240
13. Moodle IN ACTION
Take a look at the Penn Manor School District’s Website or
Fox Chapel School District Website
You can quickly see that once adopted Moodle can be widely used
at many grade levels and in almost every subject. Moodle allows
teachers to interact with students beyond the classroom walls. It
also allows teachers to maximize the use of technology to organize
their classroom.
I especially like Fox Chapel’s /Moodle and Technology
Forum, which seems to be contributed to by students and teachers
alike.
Also view these videos explaining Moodle
Moodle Introduction1
Moodle Introduction2
14. Can one person/teacher just use
Moodle?
YES! Teachers can create their own Moodle site on NineHub!
(http://myclass.org.au/)
* If you are looking to create a larger site for MANY
classes, different teachers or an entire school or district I
recommend either using your own server to host your Moodle
site or using a Moodle partner.
15. Moodle and YOU
Principals and other Administrators
Classrooms of the Future Coaches, Librarians and Computer
Teachers
Technology Support
16. Moodle Playtime:
Ready to create your own Moodle site?
View these slides to learn HOW to set up your own Moodle
Site.
View this website to download the Moodle Set-Up Kit, this will
allow you to create and play with a remote Moodle site of your
own. It includes all features of Moodle, but you need server
space and to upload it to the Internet for full functionality. This
will simply be stored on YOUR computer and not available to
others.
To check out the example Moodle site and play with it, click
here.
• Username: admin
Password: golddot240
Done playing? Click here
17. Want to hear what the world is
saying about Moodle?
Check out the Moodle Buzz!
Here you will find articles, websites, and other insightful views
into the Moodle world. Some are explanations into how to use
Moodle. Many are articles giving their opinion about Moodle
and more. Essentially news and publications about Moodle
from around the world, all in one place.
18. What to do once you decide your
school should have a Moodle site:
All stakeholders: teachers, administrators, technology coordinators and
perhaps even students and parents need to be involved in implementing
and designing your school’s Moodle site. Ask yourselves:
Where will the site be hosted?
Who is responsible for what?
What roles do we want ? What permissions are associated with each role?
How will we implement the use of Moodle? Who will use it? Is it required or simply
encouraged?
How will you handle training?
Which of the Moodle modules do you want to include?
How can you promote the use of Moodle?
What do you want your Moodle site to look like and most importantly what do you want
to make it do for you?
19. Thank you and Good Luck!
I wish you luck with all of your future wiki use and Moodling!
I hope that this session and all of the materials have been
informative. Thank you for attending this session and the entire
Technology as a Second Language conference.
Please feel free to consult and share this presentation as needed
to help with future professional development.
Editor's Notes
In the lunchroom one day this spring, our favorite school nurse (who we will rename Peg), who is a great lady and she tries to keep up with technology but it has gotten away from her. She asked everyone at the table “What is Twitter?” When I, and the young band teacher, explained that Twitter is a website where you answer the question “What are you doing?” in 180 characters or less. This puzzled her because her next question was WHY? Why does anyone use these things? The conversation progressed to discussions about MySpace and Facebook and how these are social networks that people use to communicate with friends, family and even colleges. Of course, as we are all school teachers we began talking about how some teachers and some schools even use these to communicate with students. THAT lead to a discussion about the wisdom of using each with students, and while we did dissolve into a side discussion about texting, sexting and how you could use your cell phone to take polls, quiz kids and get immediate feedback using texting, we ultimately decided that there SHOULD be websites LIKE these great social networks, that are designed for schools and would provide for all of our special needs. I am going to tell you about two such tools that are designed for schools and can be used to help teachers and students: Wikis and Moodle.
Why are we doing this? “One student said ‘That is just how I learn. That is my world when I go home.” That student was dead on. We have to speak to kids in their language and grab their attention, and to do that sometimes we need to enter their world. I had to write out what kids can do with technology at every grade for my brother. Have you ever thought about that? What a kindergartener can do before they even get to school? And how kids have learned just about all we have to teach them by 9th grade and then they automatically take over and use technology naturally. It is amazing! That is why we need to keep up with those kids.
Go through the example site and show the many features. Explain how there can be district and individual teacher calendars, there can be news forums which do create an RSS feed. Teachers can add web pages, wiki pages, forums for discussions, pictures, audio and videos, the most popular is the ability to add quizzes and to apply grades to many of the activities. Teachers can add polls (called choice), assignments, chats, surveys and even a class glossary. There is little a teacher would want to do on the web that you cannot manipulate Moodle to do for you.Show how teachers can see recent activity, they can analyze and keep grades, add many different things to the blocks on the sides and easily manage the site with the administration tools on the left.Show how the view changes based on the role of the person logged-in.Explain that teachers can set this up ONCE, let all the students use it and then it is easy to re-create the blank slate for the next course and adapt activities as needed.
Note how MUCH MUCHMUCH of this training is taken straight from the Moodle site……because they are the best and they have created easy to use and understand directions, tutorials and allow for teachers and administrators to easily teach themselves moodle with just a little help from their site.If NINEHUB does not work then use the one Scott set up….The URL is moodle.miu4.k12.pa.usThe UserID is adminThe password is golddot240
Compatibility with other systems……………unclear in any literature but other districts I spoke to (Penn Manor) claimed that it was possible with little effort, and there are few complaints about this found in the discussion boards (a telling sign) also view this link: http://moodle.com/integration/
Compatibility with other systems……………unclear in any literature but other districts I spoke to (Penn Manor) claimed that it was possible with little effort, and there are few complaints about this found in the discussion boards (a telling sign) also view this link: http://moodle.com/integration/
Sorry I cannot show you more EXAMPLES but most are blocked/need a user name & password to protect students, with good reason.
Note that in a NORMAL school Moodle site, you would have students enrolled and assigned to each class. It is the Technology Coordinator’s job to make sure all students are enrolled as participants in your Moodle site, and then assigned to their specific classes. As far as I know, Moodle is compatable with other student management software, like Starbase, to make this easier. Teachers can also manipulate who is and is not enrolled in their course if they so choose. In our demo session, there are no students so we will just pretend that they got magically enrolled as they would with a GREAT technology department!