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Moodle – making life easier for teachers and more fun for learners Expolingua Berlin October 2012 Jeff Stanford
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A few key selling points for having fun with moodle and making life easier for teachers
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Moodle – making life easier for teachers and more fun for learners
Expolingua Berlin October 2012
Jeff Stanford
Clients include:University of LeicesterPearson EducationCommunicaidNILEBerlin School of EnglishBell SchoolBritish Council
Jeff Stanford
http://teachereducation.org.uk/moodle/Expolingua 2012 course
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What makes moodle fun for learners? Examples
Using it only as a repository for documents
What makes moodle boring?
What makes moodle boring?
Based on Bloom’s 1956 Taxonomy of Cognitive Difficulty
Lack of challenge?
Only ?
Stimulation through:
MultimediaInteractivityCollaborationEasy navigationFlexibility
What makes moodle fun for learners?
Audio embed audio file, voki, nanogong, Poodll
Video embed video, media capture, embed skype, webconferencing (e.g. adobe connect)
Images embed images, use instead of/as well as text, slide galleries
Reposi Flickr, youtube, dropbox,tories google docs and more!
What makes moodle fun for learners? Multimedia
What makes moodle fun for learners? Interactivity
Competition – grading, voting, rating in glossaryRace – timer function in quiz module
Exploring – widget for RSS links, dictionaries
Creativity – Portfolio Exabis/MaharaReward schemes - certificates
Teacher Messaging and Chat
Team-building exercisesWorkshop for peer reviewWiki for joint editing
Reflective learning Blog, Online Assignment
What makes moodle fun for learners? Creativity and Collaboration
What makes moodle fun for learners? Easy navigation
What makes moodle fun for learners? Easy navigation
Catch-up… If students miss a lesson, they can find it on moodle
Homework reminders
Personalised space
Google search, wikipedia search
What makes moodle fun for learners? Flexibility
What makes moodle easier for teachers?
Easy communication with learnersEasy gradingEasy trackingEasy to upload materialEasy to copy and curate materialsEasy evaluation toolsFrees up time and makes students more independent
A home for most of your activities…
What makes moodle easier for teachers?
What makes moodle easier for teachers? grading
What makes moodle easier for teachers? tracking
What makes moodle easier for teachers? Drag and drop files
Having time to respond to learners
Having time to keep up to date with new plugins
Checking copyright issuesNurturing collaboration with other teachers
Having a sense of ownership
Challenges for teachers
• Audacity – free sound mixer and recorder• Audio Hijack Pro – record any sound stream• Skype call recorder – record skype calls
Some tools I use in conjunction with Moodle - Sound
• Skitch – screen grabbing• Camtasia – screen capture (commercial)• Jing – free screen capture
Some tools I use in conjunction with Moodle - Image
• Delicious – to bookmark sites (then embed in moodle as an RSS feed)
• Exe – to create SCORM packages
Some tools I use in conjunction with Moodle - Other
www.jswebdesign.co.uk to rent moodle space
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/moodle1/index.html how-to videos for using moodle
http://moodleflair.com to try out moodle
http://tinyurl.com/moodle4lgtg for forums on language teaching with moodle
http://tinyurl.com/Moodlegd guide for teachers
Moodle links
Contact me if…… you have questions about moodle or elearning… you want hosting
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