1. flong@knowplace.ca Let’s Start Using Moodle Practice = 75% Teach Others = 90%

2. frances@knowplace.ca

5. Moodle Blocks Each course homepage contains blocks on the left and right with the centre column containing the course content.

6. Moodle Activities Activities that you and your students can do online

7. Moodle Activities

8.  Chats and Forums: Communication and collaboration  Choices: Gain group feedback.  Wikis: Students work together on a project  Assignments or Workshops: Work submitted by students and marked by teachers  Quizzes: Several options for automatic scoring. You can even integrate your Hot Potato quizzes by adding a Hotpot activity.  Lessons: Deliver content and offer ways of individualizing your presentation based upon a student's choices.  Glossaries: Key words can be added to by yourself or, if you allow it, your students.  Surveys and Databases: are powerful additions to any course.  Many non-standard modules: not part of the official Moodle release

9. Moodle Resources

10. Include almost any kind of digital content into your courses:  Text page is a simple page written using plain text.  Create a Web page with Moodle's WYSIWYG editor.  Link to an uploaded file or external website such as sound, video, graphics  Display the complete contents of a directory in your course files and let your users pick the file themselves.  Use a label to embed instructions or information in the course section.

11. frances@knowplace.ca

18. What Can Moodle Do???

19. Moodle is…. An online course workspace to store course files and build interactive learning activities. These files can be accessed by anyone, anywhere (with the right permissions!)

20. More than Storage Your students can talk and work together online …  Wiki  Blogs, journals  WebQuest  Integrate sound, flash, images, movies Active Learning Strategies

21. Individual Projects Active Moodle Tools  Resources  Rules and Permissions (v 1.9) Active Methods  Create powerpoint presentations  Embed sound  Embed flash  Webquest

22. Group Projects Active Moodle Tools  WIKIs  Glossary  Polls (choice)  Forums  Rules and Permissions Active Methods  Webquest  Jigsaw  Lead Presentations

23. Further Your Learning (and doing!) frances@knowplace.ca

24. Ignat Bednarik, circa 1920s Read Books About Using Moodle William Rice Helen Foster Jason Cole Ralf Hilgenstock

25. frances@knowplace.ca Read Online About Using Moodle http://moodle.org

26. frances@knowplace.ca Saint Jerome, circa1480 Writing Posts and Getting Help Particularly Helpful Moodler

27. You must become a member of Moodle frances@knowplace.ca http://moodle.org Frances says……

28. frances@knowplace.ca

29. Best Practices

30. flong@knowplace.ca Keep your Sense of Humour

31. flong@knowplace.ca Frances Long flong@knowplace.ca flong@knowplace.ca

32. We Chose Moodle!  Developed our own open source environment 2000 (EDUML)  Designed 5 teach & design programs  Couldn’t do both (the LMS, the learning activities)  We were exhausted  Re-engineered 49 courses in 2003 into Moodle

33. flong@knowplace.ca Each knowplace community uses…. Moodle Tools  Blogs  Searchable Resources  Surveys  Communication tools  Photos/images  Member’s area  Wikis Supplementary Tools  Bookmarks  Elluminate,  Yahoo and other instant message programs  Social networking sites

34. flong@knowplace.ca November 23 Agenda Morning 8:30 – 10:00 10:00 – 10:15 10:15 – 12:00 12:00 – 1:00 1:00 – 2:00 2:00 – 2:15 2:15 - 4:00 PPT Presentation: knowplace Family of Sites & What’s Moodle? TASK: Create Login and Profile (Hands On) TASK: Post Using the WYSIWYG Editor (Hands On) Break Presentation & Hands On: TASK: How Literate Are You? Lunch Presentation & Hands On: Introduction to: Moodle Course Page, Resources, Activities & Blocks Break TASK: Create Resources (Continued) TASK: Manipulate Moodle Blocks TASK: Tips & Tricks Glossary

35. flong@knowplace.ca How We Use Moodle ? MethodsMoodle ToolActivity Talk to each otherDiscussion Forums, Chat, Instant Message Plan group projects, connect! Group projects Wiki, Dialogue, Forums Web Quests, jig saw Personal reflectionsJournal (assignment), personal forums, Blogs Review content or life online ContentResources, Book, Forums, Glossary (sound, images, flash, text) Accommodate different learning styles AssessmentQuizzes, poll, choice, online participation Automate it!