Mooddle for Teachers Week 2

Moodle for Teachers(Basic Moodle Skills) : Moodle for Teachers(Basic Moodle Skills) September 14, 2009 WikiEducator, IT Moodle, WiZiQ

Slide 2 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Welcome & Class Overview Part I: What and Why Moodle?- Review •Warm Up: How People Learn? •What Impacts Teacher’s Course design   Part II: Teaching with Moodle •Student Orientation •Instructor Orientation •Resources •Activities •Demonstration & Settings, not how-to •Activities on Moodle

Slide 3 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Review: What is Moodle? Type in on the White board what you learned about Moodle: explain what Moodle stands for, what philosophy/approach it is based on, how it is set up: what parts of the Moodle interface are, how to sign up for Moodle, etc.

Slide 4 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Warm up for Week 2 Take a guess:  Percentage of what we learn which is retained in memory:   When we read:                                         _______ % When we hear:                                         _______% When we see:                                            _______% When we see & hear:                               _______% When we discuss:                                     _______% When do things:                                       _______% When we teach others:                            _______%

Slide 5 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Warm up: Learning Pyramid What are the implications for Teaching?

Slide 6 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) To Sum UP! Learning is an active and interactive process of accessing, processing, organizing, and reflecting on the information that results in meaningful, long-lasting changes in knowledge, skills, dispositions, beliefs, values and the like. When learning occurs, there are changes in what we perceive, how we act, and how we organize our environment. "To have knowledge nowadays is to make it, to construct it, not to record, absorb, or memorize it. Teaching is not simply telling" (Martin Bickman).

Slide 7 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) To Sum UP!

Slide 8 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) To Sum UP! MODELS Behavioral Information- Processing Social Interactive Personal Strategies Direct/Deductive Indirect/Inductive Indirect/Interactive Indirect/Independent Study METHODS Lectures, Presentations, Inquiry, WebQuests Jigsaw, Role Play

Slide 9 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Teacher experiences: Tools

Slide 10 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Student experience •3-Column organization oContent in center by “Topic” or Module/Week §Up to 20 oLeft/right columns supplementary “Blocks” oRestrict view to one topic   •Demonstration: Blended Class   •Demonstration: Online Class

Moodle Course Interface : Moodle Course Interface Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills )

Slide 12 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Instructor Orientation NB!  Turn Editing On   •Topics named with edit icon   •Content added to each section with add resource/add activity   •Course Design Decision: Course Format oPresent each topic as a week; as a unit, or according to the type of resource

Moodle Course View: Editing : Moodle Course View: Editing Turn Editing ON

Slide 14 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Resources 3 Main Ways to Display Content     Book - Present content directly within Moodle with    easy-to-navigate TOC * No delay in viewing the content (as a file, you have to wait for the software to open it) * The student does not need any special software to open it. * Changes can be made quickly and immediate directly within Moodle    Link to a file or website: * Add a Word doc, PPT, spreadsheet, etc. o When a student opens a file, it will ask them if they want to open it or save it to their computer. This means they will need software in order to open the file. * Link to a website: Link to journal articles, blogs, or institutions o Open in a new window or directly within Moodle   Compose a web page - Present content directly within Moodle. * Advantages: o Copy/paste to preserve content from a web page that has the potential to expire o Same advantages as book ! Use Labels  to make your course visually appealing

Slide 15 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Building your Course - Activities •Used to engage learners with resources, to show their learning, to assess learning and give feedback. omost can be graded osome allow students to rate the works of others and provide feedback   •Major Course Design Decision - which activity would best fit with the learning objective?

Slide 16 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Choice Uses •Poll student opinion   •Stimulate thinking about a topic in advance of a related activity by giving a prequestion, ideally can connect to prior experience.   •Assess prior knowledge   •Sign up oFor a topic or presentation date

Slide 17 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Choice Settings •Show results to students or not oAnonymous or Show Picture/Name oReveal always or make them choose first     •Choice on the Moodle course

Slide 18 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Collaborative Activities •Chat   •Forum   •Wiki   •Glossary

Slide 19 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Standard Forum: E.g.

Slide 20 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Forum Uses •Tool for collaboration and peer review oEnforce groups so that students can collaborate on projects oRequire the posting of a project as a discussion topic, require feedback to fellow learners. •Problem based learning oAssign groups to solve a problem, identify and correct a misconception, etc. oQ & A Forum Type: Students must post answer before see others •Weekly reading discussion oapply concepts from the reading odiscuss a case study ouse as resource to collect questions for in-class discussion

Slide 21 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Forum Uses •Tool for class-wide FAQ oHave one for whole class and/or ones for particular units oHave them consult the forums and the responses before sending you an email.  •Interview a guest expert •Social Forum ofor chatting non-class issues oIcebreakers •Management tips: oView all forum posts by a student in profile

Slide 22 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Wiki •A wiki is a page (or pages) that several people can edit together.   •Each of the changes are saved in versions of the page, and the old versions can be retrieved to be re-examined.   •Types: oClass collaboration oIndividual/Teacher collaboration oGroup collaboration

Slide 23 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Wiki Uses •Lecture Notes •Brainstorming •Group Projects oRecord research, create outlines oProduce a guide, article, brochure, etc. §Consider asking to have best of submitted to Wikipedia or another web wiki oCollaborate on assignments that are submitted to forum posts or uploaded to assignments •Portfolio - Student-teacher, student collects artifacts in Wiki •Journal

Slide 24 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Glossary •Instructor and/or student created   •Entries organized by category   •Entries can be commented on   •Entries can be revised based on comments   •Entries can be moderated by Instructor for approval into Glossary

Slide 25 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Glossary Uses •Vocabulary building - Repository for key concept definition •Research Activity – oAssign each student (or team) to contribute a definition (and categorize appropriately if applicable). oMultiple definitions can be rated, with the highest-rated definitions submitted the final class glossary. •Mini-projects - small research projects to create resources for each other. oHave students research a topic (like organs in the body) then create an encyclopaedia-style glossary entry with pictures and resources. oCreate glossary entries for biographies of historical people or those in the field.

Slide 26 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Glossary Uses •Embed information on key concepts with autolinking oAnytime someone mentions a glossary term in a lesson, forum, or wiki, the word is linked back to the definition in the glossary. oCredit for word use: Assign points to using glossary terms in students' forum posts.   •Random Glossary Block oTip or Vocab Word of the Day/Week/Upon Refresh oDraws randomly or sequentially

Slide 27 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Assessment in Moodle Assignments Quiz  Lesson Workshop

Slide 28 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Resources How-to Tutorials: •moodletutorials.org •Moodle Book: •http://moodle.org    Hosting/Support: •http://moodlerooms.com •http://www.globalclassroom.us/ •Moodle Playpen: http://playpen.moodle.com.au/moodle/

Slide 29 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) Activities on Moodle Course Site 1.Let’s check what groups you are in (Profile)   2.Test the Chat room  - get in your groups and discuss your course design ideas   3.If time permits: •Go to “Category.” Sandbox and create an introduction to your course/subject. •Type in the title of the course, your name, contact info, add a picture, etc. •Add a file, add a web resource, •Add an activity.

Slide 30 : Workshop: Moodle for Teachers ( Basic Moodle Skills ) See you next week