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About the Class: |
Moodle for Teachers is Easy!
Moodle is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It is a global development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.
Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the GNU Public License). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the license for full details and please contact the copyright holder directly if you have any questions.
The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.
Read on how to get started with Moodle.
Teachers and Students benefit from using Moodle.
Benefits:
1. Save time and money on photocopying course materials
2. Less weight as you save on paperwork (or paper marking) to carry with you
3. Fast correcting and marking work
4. Interactive classwork, homework and assignments
5. Easy to follow grading and evaluations
6. Engaging activities to motivate and challenge students
Check your time zone for the exact time of the event.
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About the presenter:
Nellie Deutsch
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Ludmila Smirnova is Associate Professor of Education at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y., where she has taught for the past 9 years. At the Mount, she offers courses in Curricular Planning, Methods of Teaching and Teaching with Technology and serves as counselor to Kappa Delta Pi, the International Honor Society in Education. She has become increasingly recognized for her leadership in the application of emerging Internet technologies to education. She has run numerous workshops on the application of Smart Technologies (e.g., Smart Board) and of Web 2.0 tools to the college and primary/secondary classroom.
Prior to coming to the Mount, Dr. Smirnova was visiting professor at Ramapo College of N.J. for two years. In her native Russia, she was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University, where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. During her 25-year Russian career, Dr. Smirnvoa was known for her work in innovative approaches to teaching. She pioneered the reintroduction of Montessori education in southern Russia; a Montessori trainer in both the American and European approaches, she has run seminars and training programs for Montessori teachers in Russia and the U.S. Also in Russia, she played a key role in creating a model Ecological Gymnasium and other experimental “charter schools.” With her Ph.D. and Masters students, she additionally undertook a major program of comparative study on successful educational innovation; an interest that has continued after her move to the U.S.
Beyond the seventy books and other publications based upon her work in Russia, Dr. Smirnova has written for and presented to a growing list of professional audiences in the U.S. and abroad. Technology Enhanced Teaching and Learning for Student (and Teacher) Success was published based upon her presentation at the Faculty Resource Network conference “Defining Student Success” in San Francisco in November 2008. She has conducted numerous other workshops and presentations on Web 2.0 “Read-Write-Create” technologies, including Moodle and Smartboard training on line and in colleges, public schools and conferences in the U.S. and Mexico. This summer she presented virtually at the Association for the Advancement of Computing conference in Hawaii in June and in person at the International Association of Technology, Education and Development EDULearn09 conference in Barcelona in July, where she also chaired a session. She recently co-edited a volume on comparative approaches to environmental problems in which her work on the Ecological Gymnasium was featured.
 Gladys Gahona is a mexican private teacher. In 1981 she graduated in chemical engineering at Universidad
Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY), in Mérida, Yucatán, México. In 2002 she graduated in Technology Management at UADY.
For over thirty years she has taught mathematics, physics and chemistry. Currently
she owns a small academy where she teaches: AF
Centro. She has been in touch with computer technology since 1980 and
started navigating the Internet since the early 90's. The knowledge she has
gained in teaching/tutoring comes from her personal experiences and
self-studies. She has also been a self learner in computing, web programing,
ITC and web 2.0 platforms and tools. As a perseverant learner and passioned for challenges, she has spent thousands of hours seeking new ways to integrate personal learning experiences into her teaching activities. She has devoted her professional life to her two passions: teaching and learning.
About Nellie Deutsch: I am a Canadian (Toronto) residing in Israel. I have been teaching English as a foreign language to high school and adult learners for over 30 years. I am currently writing my doctoral dissertation after completing a 3 year program in educational leadership, specializing in curriculum and instruction at the University of Phoenix online.
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