1. How Moodle Changed our Lives
Sean Soules & Steve Durant
Wyandotte Public Schools

2. What’s in your classroom?
Projector
Document Camera
Internet

3. Computer issues? Our lab is open before and after school
Can access Moodle on any smart phone with Internet
Public Library
Have to raise the bar and keep it high

4. Before Moodle After Moodle It’s on Moodle What I miss?
Can I get the notes?
Do you have any more handouts
When will this be graded?
It’s on Moodle

5. Are you new to Moodle? Start up takes A LOT OF YOUR TIME
Can revise each year you teach the course
Course grows as you learn more Moodle features
Never a replacement to a teacher

6. Resource is what they see!
Don’t try to know all the resources, master some of them

7. Activities is what they do!
So much here you can be overwhelmed
Pick what works

8. How I have used Moodle Extension of the classroom Blended classroom
Flipped classroom

9. Extension of the Classroom

10. Blended Classroom

11. Flipped Classroom

12. The Book Feature vs List

13. Chapters

14. The Calendar

15. Links back to the Book…

16. …to avoid confusion.

17. My Format… Know This… Read This… Watch This… Do This Together…
Do This Individually…
My Format…

18. My Format for Clarity

19. Seamless linking to docs…

20. …to links…and video.

21. Group Collaboration- Problem Based Learning and Project Based Learning

22. Individual Assessment

23. Chat- writing or lit help…designate a monitor

24. Grading the Forum

25. The Writing Process- Benefits of the Book in Moodle
Allows students to be self sufficient
Allows students to be proactive and accountable for their learning
Allows the instructor to give a variety of resources to their students in an easy-to-use, organized format
Promotes students to be engaged in the lesson
Easy to grade, easy to maintain
The Writing Process- Benefits of the Book in Moodle