Moodle Do's and Don'ts provides guidance on best practices for developing online courses in Moodle. It recommends [1] creating courses with clear organization and labeling, [2] incorporating all resources directly into the course, and [3] using interactive tools that engage students in social and collaborative activities. The document also provides many examples of free online tools for creating multimedia content, conducting assessments, facilitating collaboration and reflection. The overall message is that online courses in Moodle should be well-designed, interactive and provide opportunities for student-centered learning.
An attempt to explain Moodle to our staff or anyone else by using an analogy with modular Lego bricks.
Background details and accompanying video clip available at: http://tomazlasic.net
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Tomaz Lasic
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Twitter @lasic
A presentation from the NJEDge.Net Faculty Best Practices Showcase in March 2007 on NJIT's pilot program using Moodle as a learning management system and examining the open source and "free" aspects of Moodle and the support needed to implement it on a campus.
HRs and Teachers working in the Nostrum Oil & Gas company were experiencing problems in the process of the employees' training. There was a critical need for education process automation, creation of a platform for storing learning materials and giving all the employees with Azure credentials access at any time.
The final product developed by *instinctools provides staff members of the client's company with a single point of access to all educational materials. It allows Teachers and the HR Department to create courses, organize and store educational materials, as well as manage the process of learning.
The system provides Learners with remote access to the courses.
Unlike the current educational process, the final product generates reports required to comply with the state government.
An attempt to explain Moodle to our staff or anyone else by using an analogy with modular Lego bricks.
Background details and accompanying video clip available at: http://tomazlasic.net
Free to use, translate and share for non-commercial purposes.
Enjoy
Tomaz Lasic
http://tomazlasic.net
Twitter @lasic
A presentation from the NJEDge.Net Faculty Best Practices Showcase in March 2007 on NJIT's pilot program using Moodle as a learning management system and examining the open source and "free" aspects of Moodle and the support needed to implement it on a campus.
HRs and Teachers working in the Nostrum Oil & Gas company were experiencing problems in the process of the employees' training. There was a critical need for education process automation, creation of a platform for storing learning materials and giving all the employees with Azure credentials access at any time.
The final product developed by *instinctools provides staff members of the client's company with a single point of access to all educational materials. It allows Teachers and the HR Department to create courses, organize and store educational materials, as well as manage the process of learning.
The system provides Learners with remote access to the courses.
Unlike the current educational process, the final product generates reports required to comply with the state government.
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
2. In developing content we need to apply best practices in teaching and learning. Courses need to be properly designed, and developed within a broader learning context that includes the critical activities needed to support learning, such as opportunities for student-instructor and peer interaction, and within a culture of sharing. Tony Bateshttp://bit.ly/e951cR
3. Online learning activities cannot replicate in-class ones exactly, but they still can be interactive, dynamic, interesting, engaging, and collaborative.
5. Create courses that have a clear, consistent design, and that are organized in a way in which your information is easy to find and understand.
6. Build all your resources, including books and manuals into your course.
7. Avoid having too much text in one area. Break it apart into smaller sections by using labels, or compose several web pages to break the information apart.
8. Use labels to appropriately divide/annotate and organize your course sections/weeks
9. Keep individual topic descriptions short and concise
10. Enter brief, helpful summaries for your resources
11. Avoid embedding links. Use the resource tool to add a link.
12. Throw out all the activities and assignments from your face-to-face workshop and develop new ones that are social, collaborative, reflective, engaging and employ 21st century resources and skills.
13. Use a URL shortener to shorten your links. For example: A Moodle Course Evaluation Checklist @ http://ceetbc.ning.com/group/moodlerrific/forum/topics/what-are-your-moodle-dos-and becomes http://bit.ly/eXTILV
14. Become Break Up Friendly. Break your course into small chunks or Topics. Each Topic should fit within a browser window without the need to scroll
15. Use tables for creative layout and best use of space and color to highlight headings.
24. Online Conferencing Skype -- A simple, free service for video conferences as well as audio chat as well. Wiziq - a free Web-based platform for anyone who wants to teach and learn live Elluminate – virtual classroom (not so free)
25. Embed Documents Embedit.in- Embed documents, such as Word documents and PDFs directly onto your moodle course.
26. Publish Manuals and Documents Online Scribd – publish you manuals online (private or public) Issuu - digital publishing platform
27. Want to find an easy way to create video? Windows Movie Maker and iMovie for Mac are fun and easy to use video editing programs that allows you to make home movies, photo albums and business presentations. Animoto - A great way to create video slideshows Viddler - allows you to record video directly to the Internet from your webcam. Voki - a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars. xtranormal - allows you to create free animated movies with recorded text Voxopop - a web based audio tool that enables users to record their speaking for others to listen and respond to. Podbean - provides a creative audio, video, and blog all-in-one hosting service.
28. Want to find videos, images and multimedia? Search Creative Commons lets you search different websites (like Google Images, Flickr, and Wikimedia Commons) for Creative Commons works. Enter your search query up top, then click on the database you wish to search.
29. Want to embed video? Youtube - The standard video-hosting site. Upload your own video, or choose from existing videos to add to your page. Vimeo – I like to use Vimeo to embed video because of the high definition quality of the videos, as well as the fact that videos with Youtube need to be under ten minutes. Videos up to one GB large can be uploaded with Vimeo.
30. Want to record audio or create demonstrations, screencasts and tutorials? Screencast-O-Matic- The original online screen recorder for one-click recording from your browser Jing - instant screenshots and screencasts Audacity - An audio editor for recording, slicing, and mixing audio
31. Need to convert video files to use in an editing program? Media Converter- Upload files, or link to sources that you would like to convert to another file format. Choose your file, choose your format, and download the results. Zamzar - Convert your files online, and download the results in your email.
32. No Access to Internet? Poodle (Portable Moodle) is a software package that runs Moodle and Moodle courses off a local computer. Poodle may be installed on a computer or run off a USB stick or CD-ROM.
33. Innovative Tools and Resources for Students to Demonstrate and Reflect on their Learning.
34. Want to create Slide Show Presentations? slideboom - is widely used for converting PowerPoint presentations to Flash and sharing them with colleagues, family and friends. Slideshare - Easily embed Slideshare widgets so students have instant access to your presentation in Moodle. My Brainshark - upload PowerPoints and then add your own narration to the slides. Embed these audio slides onto your Moodle account. AuthorStream - Upload PowerPoints to AuthorStream and convert them to interactive Flash videos Open Office - Make your slide presentation with impress (power point compatible) and then export it as Macromedia Flash file Google Docs – to upload and share your PowerPoint
35. Want your students to record audio? Audio Recorder is a moodle module that acts like an assignment. Students record up to 4 minutes of audio right in Moodle and then the teacher can review that just as if it were another type of assignment.
36. Want to create Digital Stories? VoiceThread - To tell your story with voice and pictures Storybird – to create art inspired collaborative stories Create Your Own Comic - a free comic creation website Makebeliefcomix - users can create their own comic strips. Glogster - enables students to create multi-layered, interactive, virtual posters with video and musical links on topical subjects. Photopeach - With PhotoPeach you can create a rich slideshows. Slidestory- tell a story, share your photos, narrate in your own voice Kizoa- An amazing and free program for creating and displaying slideshows, editing photos and adding music, audio, text. Prezi- storyboarding
37. Educational Games and Quizzes The Hot Potatoes suite integrates with moodle and includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises http://www.wordsearchmaker.net/ - make your own word search http://classtools.net/ - Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds and embed them in moodle Just Crosswords- make your own crossword puzzle. More than 300 to choose from.
38. Polls, Surveys and Questionnaires Vizu Web Polls - a natural complement to any moodle site Flisti - Create a free online polls with no signup Poll Everywhere– audience response system that uses mobile devices, twitter and the web Answer Garden– plant a question, grow answers Forms on Google Docs- easily gather information from a large number of people Pollmo - easily create and embed a poll without an account. Surveymonkey - create free web-based surveys
39. Timeline Generators TimeToastThis interactive timeline creator allows for easily and quickly adding events with text and images XTimelineThis timeline generator allows for interactive multimedia timelines. Unlike other timelines, these can be edited by others with the correct permissions.
40. Brainstorming Tools myWebspiration - free online mind mapping tool Gliffy - This online diagram designer will allow you to create a variety of diagrams such as mind maps, flow charts, floor plans, computer networks, user interfaces, etc. Mindomo - for mind mapping and brainstorming Bubbl.us- A simple tool that allows for text-only mind maps
41. Collaboration and social networking tools to help share lessons, foster better communications and give students more opportunities to take ownership of their learning opportunities. Moodle Wiki Block – foster collaboration with a wiki that everyone can edit, enter comments, discuss, check history of edits, see a map of all the wiki pages and add new ones Blogs Block – nurture writing and reflection with the blogging module. Encourage replies and discussions with comment to posts. Associate blogs with a specific activity Glossary Block – together build a bank of key words and definitions
42. Would you like your students to demonstrate learning in a creative way? KerPoof -- is a free online creativity center where students can create their own pictures, stories, and movies. Wordle - Have your students plug in their creative writing assignments to analyze their writing. They can also see which words are used too frequently. Use wordle for brainstorming as well. Tagxedo - turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes into a visually stunning tag cloud Mahara ePortfolio - integration with moodle to collect, reflect on and share your achievements
43. Participate in a Free and Open Moodle Course April 1-8 on Connective Writing The Connective Writing Course is intended to build information gathering and way-making skills for online lifelong learners. It will nurture interaction and collaboration to collectively build online resources. Register @ http://bit.ly/h2e66w
44. Never in the history of life on our planet has the need for informed and wisdom-filled action been greater than it is today. We are convinced that education – in its many forms – is the most hopeful antidote to the errors of greed, of ignorance, and of life-threatening aggression that menace our civilization and our planet. …education is one of the few sustainable means to equip humans around the globe with the skills and resources to confront the challenges of ignorance, poverty, war, and environmental degradation. Distance education is perhaps the most powerful means of extending this resource and making it accessible to all. – Terry Anderson
45. Sandy Hirtz shirtz@t2online.ca CEET... a community for educators interested in teaching with technology.http://ceetbc.ning.com/ Literacy Forum…a community for advancing literacy and learning.http://bcliteracyforum.ning.com/
Editor's Notes
Online learning activities cannot replicate in-class ones exactly, but they still can be interactive, dynamic, interesting, engaging, and collaborative. http://www.tonybates.ca/2011/02/06/oers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
What I like about the course most is it’s simple layout and design. 5 days = 5 topic areas. Each is nicely highlighted with a different header image/color and the resources and activities are contextualized to help explain/segue into the new activities and t’s a nice use of color, images and different layouts for the text using tables and other formatting. NikiLambropoulos & SophiDanis
the Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiativehttp://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses
Open Schools Namibia, Entrepreneurship Grade 10
Powerpoint slides, lecture notes, and pdf filesStudent assessment is a joke, relying mainly on peer assessment and multiple choice, self-assessed questions.
What makes a lot of open content ugly is the lack of design or adaptation to make it suitable for independent or distance study or for third party useContent needs not only to be contextualized but also adapted for independent or distance learning.
PowerPoint be converted to a Flash file. That alleviates the problem of students needing PP or downloading the file, or something else that might be a problem.