Build a LMS Page Student Project
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M. Catherine Chauvin
GTCC
CIS-110-Introduction to Computers
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Introduction to Computers
LMS course restored from department
resource course
“Canned” – all text, no images
Having built a few web pages, I wanted
more
My first teaching experience with a LMS
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Added a themeDid my students notice? NO!
Uploaded a few images.Did my students notice? NO!
I continued making changes, blobs of text … gone, online assignments, inserted images into
quizzes, etc …Did my students notice? NO!
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Then I did something interesting.Actually, I didn’t do it, eLearning retired the
theme I was using which was replaced with “no theme.”
Did my students notice?
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YES!
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“Are there any questions about this week’s assignment?”“Hey, Ms. Chauvin, why did you change the
color of our webpage?”`“Yeah, I noticed that too.” “ What, the green is gone?” “Oh, man, it don’t look so good now?”
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I was inspired to build a better Moodle course-room for my students.
I began weekly meetings with our Instructional Designer, Tonya Riney.
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Traditional or in-seat courses
Moodle pages are generally used a
repository for resources and quizzes
Instructors often do not realize the benefits
of an interactive LMS course-room
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Do our students actually look at their course LMS page?
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Grow A Moodle, Tomaz Lasic
http://human.edublogs.org/2009/06/09/grow-a-moodle/
… gigabytes of info on ‘growing gap between
the teachers and students in using
technology’.
We (instructors) use “experts”
… the biggest pool of experts sits right in
front of our nose – out students!
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“What is the viability of
students teaching
teachers about Moodle?”
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“You have just been given full editing rights in a course in Moodle called Teach a Teacher. Your job is to upload two files and then create a folder with these two files in them. There are a couple of clips called 2 Minute Moodle's to help you work it out.
Go and see who gets it done!”
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12 students
none had ever had a teacher role
4 didn’t watch the videos and finished in 5 minutes
6 watched the videos and finished in 10-15 minutes
2 finished in about 20 minutes
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Outcome
“They were all pretty pleased with themselves!”
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Instigated a new program:
“Teach a Teacher”
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Presenting the idea from student to teacher requires finesse
Consider the following:‘Miss, do you want me to show you
how Moodle Assignment activity works?”,
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Another approach:
“Miss, lots of people in our class lose or get late with assignments. Would you like me to show you how we could submit our assignments from home to save us forgetting to bring stuff from home?”
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“Would you like me/us to show you how you can…” store all kinds of files in a place we can
all easily access them anytime we want or need to (files & folders)
allow us to talk like equals without the loud kids always having the say (forum)
show you how to use quick messages to each other, not emails (messaging)
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What is the benefit in all of this for the students?
Aren’t we wasting their school time to learn this stuff?Preparing for and learning how to teach someone a
skill, communicate appropriately and implement the training, evaluate and improve,learn how to use WYSIWYG/HTML,learn how to develop assessments
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Assignment:
Group project to build a Moodle page based
on your assigned chapter
As a group, present your Moodle page to the
class
Teach your assigned chapter
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Requirements:Add a theme Add a home page summary Reduced sections to have no empty sections Section/Block Zero is your chapter information,
clearly state your chapter number Display blocks only on the right side Assessment Images Study Guide
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Building the student groups:
Grades/ability
Attendance
Class participation
Gender
Age
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Outcome:
The computer “gurus” got their voice
Younger students helping older students
Students began making suggestions to their
other instructors
Had fun!!
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Student Moodle Pages …
Main course page
Grow A Moodle, Tomaz Lasic http://human.edublogs.org/2009/06/09/grow-a-mo
odle
/
Or Google “grow a moodle”
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