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Learning to teach online : Learning to teach online By: Alexandro Colorado
Feeling at home classroom : Feeling at home classroom Identifying your class needs
What moodle offers you
What methodologies are already avialable
Which is your current methodology
What you expect from your students
How does Moodle give you : How does Moodle give you Asynchronous activities
Multi-tasking activities
Online Testing
Grading management system
Recursive multimedia
Sideway communications
Multimedia communication
Live data streamline
Learn by many medium : Learn by many medium
Moodle plugins : Moodle plugins Activity Podcast v1.0 Activity Podcast v1.0 gTurnos Moodle Messsaging
Communicate : Communicate
How to comunicate : How to comunicate Kids communicate differently
Moodle allow you to break through
MoodleTxt goes to SMS
How we communicate : How we communicate
How they communicate : How they communicate
Moodle modules : Moodle modules Assigments module – keep the information recorded
Chat module – online office hours or past conversations
Choice module – 1 question survey (similar to polls)
Quizes modules – great tool to view the average knowledge of the class
Book module – sequencial unit of content
Design module – workflow of your course
Forum module – debates surrounding a topic or a specific piece of content
Evaluation modules – Many tools for evaluation
activity logs – might be good choice to monitor participation
Tips : Tips Encapsulate and resume data (avoid 50 pages PDF read assigments)
Try to regulate betwen input information, output and sideway communication
Content is great, use it wisely
Keep feedback coming, feedback is fuel
Avoid uploading large presentation or pdf files
Remember moodle is not a magic wand, it just change the field
How to get the grades : How to get the grades Cuantitative grading vs. Qualitative
Cuantitative they get an average of correct answers
Qualitative they get an overal performance
Moodle help you control the grading profiles and patterns of students grade evolution
Grades are also easy for others (teacher parents)
Workgroups : Workgroups Moodle is great for workgroup here are some of the group activities:
Debates
Forums
Community building
Group evaluation is more complex but there are third party modules to embrace this activites.
Synchronous activities
Asynchronous activities
Getting moodle from moodle.com : Getting moodle from moodle.com Moodle.com was created as a marketplace for specialized moodle companies
In your school
School level
Classroom level
Third party company
Moodle specialized
Generic service
Trying Moodle in your computer : Trying Moodle in your computer Install a web environment
Xampp from apachefriends.org is a good place
Get the administration documentation: docs.moodle.com
Go to your htdocs folder in xampp
Unzip moodle package in that folder
Go to localhost/moodle_folder
Follow the installation steps with the guide in hand
Configuring a course : Configuring a course Think small and then grow
Uses of moodle for starters:
Class notes
Project calendar
Forum
Courses can be:
By topics
By week
Forum driven
Private vs. Public : Private vs. Public Moodle offers you to configure your courses:
Public to guests
Only to students
Students that have payed
Courses can be fixed or temporary
You can set a due date for courses
Talk to other teachers : Talk to other teachers Moodle forums are great place to learn tips on moodle:http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=55
Moodle Moot (conferences):http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=33