1. + Orange-Ulster BOCES Susan Ruckdeschel, Network Team Consultant Moodle for Everyone June 22, 2016 All Grades/BOCES Staff

2. + Workshop Outcomes Develop a keen, user-friendly eye for instructional design and understand why/how to differentiate for adult learners. Create a variety of assessments in Moodle. Identify effective instructional design components for visual affect using images, graphics and multi-media Apply new Moodle features for creative instructional design Embed Wikis, blogs, Google and other applications effectively within a Moodle environment.

3. + What we will do: Look at what the affects of media literacy are on student learning. Look at various forms of blended learning used within Moodle. Examine Moodle tools and leverage them with blended learning resources such as Google, Wikis, Wordpress and more. Design in our own Moodle World sandbox environment. Discuss ideas and have lots of good discussion.

4. + Set your own learning targets Take a moment to set two or three of your own learning targets. Read your learning targets to a partner. Share.

5. + Set-up 1. Log into: http://ouboces.literacysolutions.net http://ouboces.literacysolutions.net 2. Username: first initial, last name: EXAMPLE - sdeschel 3. Password: first initial, last name: EXAMPLE – sdeschel 4. After changing password, click into “My Courses”

6. + Key Word Connections

7. + Moodle Key Terms Activity or resource Book Blocks Forums Wiki Database Glossary External tool Reports page SCORM package Quiz Page Lesson Certificate Assignment Badge File Folder

8. + Moodle Help Forums https://moodle.org/course/ 1. Go to: Moodle in English 2. Go to “General” 3. Go to “Login” and “Fill out new account”

9. + Moodle Jigsaw Log in as Student 1, 2, 3 and so forth. Click into the first link, Link 1: https://moodle.org/mod/glossary/view.php?id=851 Select a term from the Key Word List (one you do not know), and look it up in the glossary. You may also seek out other information in the General forum to answer your wonderings. Find one key word in the Glossary that is not on the list and prepare to explain it. Begin a clockwise jigsaw to explain the term you didn’t know to someone else, and explain the new term you found.

10. + Exploring Moodle Open up Link 2 in your Sandbox: What is a Plugin? Explain what a plugin is to one other person. Articulate one new learning.

11. + Exploring Moodle Open up Link 3 in your Sandbox: Using Forums. Explain what the purpose of a forum is to one other person. Articulate one new learning, or best practice, about using forums.

12. + Exploring Moodle Open up Links 4, 5, 6 and 7 (or however many you have time to read) in your Sandbox: Best Practices OR: Group up: Group 1 – review Links 4 and 5 Group 2 – review Links 6 and 7 Explain 2 to 3 best practices that are new to you for Moodle. If nothing was new, add something to your own knowledge, and pass along your insight to one other person.

13. + Moodle docs site Go to the link “Managing a Moodle Course” in your Sandbox: https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Managing_a_Moodle_course Explore and discuss it as a resource.

14. + Notice and Wonderings Review the Notice and Wonderings protocol Preview the course titled “All About Balanced Literacy” from the Home page. Reflect on the course and complete the Notice and Wonderings protocol organizer.

15. + Notices and Wonderings Notice About CourseWonder About Course

16. + Notice and Wonderings Review the Notice and Wonderings protocol Preview the course “Gifted Education, Differentiation, and Learning Styles” Reflect using the Notice and Wonderings protocol organizer.

17. + Notices and Wonderings Notice About CourseWonder About Course

18. + Compare and Contrast Balanced Literacy CourseGifted, Differentiation Course My Takeaways (what works, what doesn’t work):

19. + IMPORTANT: The next portion of this presentation will overview Moodle with some live demonstration of functions – don’t worry about taking notes on how a function was conducted. Write down what action you would like to review again later in more depth, and at a slower pace. We will overview again when we dig into our sandbox.

20. + Moodle Overview: Site Level Site level admin panel Front page settings Editing panel Settings: Grades Courses Start a new course at different points: site level, course level, category, restore a copy, backup and import Managing courses and categories Restoring a new course

21. + Moodle Overview: Course Level Course settings Grade settings Activities Blocks Add a new course Restore whole course Restore parts of a course

22. + Q and A

23. + Google Apps and Other Third Party Resources Go to Google.com or open your gmail: Click the checkered icon: Choose “more”:

24. + More… Go to: Googleplay: https://play.google.com/store Go to: Categories: Go to: Education and Apps for Teachers (free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/EDUCATION?hl =en

25. + Explore! Explore each application and share what you found out about at least one of them, or what you already knew and what knowledge was added. Discuss its application as part of a blended learning environment.

26. + Digital Assessment Resources Digital Assessment Resource Jeopardy Labs https://jeopardylabs.comhttps://jeopardylabs.com Create and use customized Jeopardy templates. Flubaroo http://www.flubaroo.comhttp://www.flubaroo.comGrade Google forms, compute grades and create detailed spreadsheets for item analysis and other data. Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com http://www.polleverywhere.com Create and administer polls via computer, tablet, or smart phone for lots of useful data. Socrative http://www.socrative.comhttp://www.socrative.comUse PCs, iPads, iPod Touches, or Smartphones to ask questions, check in, give quizzes or collect exit tickets. Rubric Makers: Rubistar: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index. php http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index. php Rubrics and graphic organizers Thinkport www.thinkport.comwww.thinkport.comRubrics and graphic organizers

27. + Collaborative Course Design Creating a Course From Scratch (I do, We Do): General Course Set-up Importing multi-media Adding users Adding activities and resources Adding visuals: images, graphs, charts Creating assessments

28. + Course Design Look for the course titled “Sandbox 1 (or 2, 3, 4, 5)” on your my Courses list in http://ouboces.literacysolutions.net http://ouboces.literacysolutions.net *You may also go into your own OUBOCES Moodle site and create from there. Create a course descriptor and outcomes. Follow along as I work on my course alongside you. Begin designing your course, including all components named in the Blended Learning Comprehensive Planning template.

29. + Comprehensive Planning

30. + Assign Users and Take a Course Add at least one user from this workshop to your course Take and/or practice with at least one person’s course. Make any necessary adjustments needed after fielding it on a colleague.

31. + Discuss your course: Reflect on your blended learning project: Describe your course. What elements did you include? Where did you find your resources? What challenges did you anticipate and plan for, and how?

32. + Tracking the Data Demo data tracking Practice in your Sandbox

33. + Finding and Pooling Moodle Resources Conduct a general Internet search for anything Moodle Compile a list of resources to share in the Moodle Blog found in the Moodle for Everyone site:

34. + Q and A’s Questions? How-to? Discoveries?