Yes, a broad question..but in our district when we first train staff to use Moodle we tell them there is no "wrong way" to use Moodle. Moodle is very robust and it is okay, and even better, to start off small and grow.
For instance, some teachers may use Moodle as a digital lesson plan with not much student interaction at first, but to use it as a portal to have links and resources in one place. So, when they are teaching during the school day and using their digital projector, they can go there and have their resources. Or maybe using Moodle for one Unit at first...then as they get more comfortable they can grow and get more in depth with things.
Our staff has also used Moodle for PLCs (personal learning communities) and sharing resources with co-workers. There is a big continuum is how/how much our staff uses Moodle. I would be interested to hear what other districts recommend to their staff and "what to use Moodle for".
A few random qays our district uses Moodle (besides with students):
-PLCs
-Structured Learning Sessions (trainings for staff, ie: social bookmarking, wordpress)
-Staff handing in documents and giving reflections
-SMART Board resources
-Student Council
One way to look at it is this progression. That section is rather terse. It made more sense when I heard Martin D talking through it in a conference keynote.
Thanks for the link!
The one resource on Moodle that we do not train on in our intros is the "quiz" resource. Although it is a very useful resource it takes a lot of up front work, so we tend to leave that for advanced users or users who inquire about it.
That would be awesome to hear Martin speak about this type of stuff.
The one resource on Moodle that we do not train on in our intros is the "quiz" resource. Although it is a very useful resource it takes a lot of up front work, so we tend to leave that for advanced users or users who inquire about it.
That would be awesome to hear Martin speak about this type of stuff.
Hello Melissa
That is true that, at the beginning, teachers are using any platform as a repository for sharing file. The structure is often similar as their syllabus.
To try to create a deep learning experience for students is sometimes more simple as we think: a simple forum can already be a powerful tool for e-learning. May I recommend the reading Gilly Salmon's book about e-tivitiy. I think that her five-stages-model is very interesting to create, manage and tutor courses on line with a very minimal investment in technology.
You can also access this course on a test server I manage (http://www.gymnyon.vd.ch/hepvd/). You can see this activity as a guest but if you would participate you have to create a new account on the logon page.
If you are happy with that activity you can download it from the course itself.
HTH
-dajan
References
That is true that, at the beginning, teachers are using any platform as a repository for sharing file. The structure is often similar as their syllabus.
To try to create a deep learning experience for students is sometimes more simple as we think: a simple forum can already be a powerful tool for e-learning. May I recommend the reading Gilly Salmon's book about e-tivitiy. I think that her five-stages-model is very interesting to create, manage and tutor courses on line with a very minimal investment in technology.
You can also access this course on a test server I manage (http://www.gymnyon.vd.ch/hepvd/). You can see this activity as a guest but if you would participate you have to create a new account on the logon page.
If you are happy with that activity you can download it from the course itself.
HTH
-dajan
References
Salmon, G. (2002) e-tivities: The Key to Active Online Learning, London, Kogan Page. [online] http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZZYyTV7MwoEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=salmon+gilly&lr=&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1 (Accessed July 15, 2009).
Salmon, G. (2004) E-Moderating, The Key to Online Teaching and Learning, Routledge. [online] http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=IBf0ZqgHhP8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=salmon+gilly&ots=7lgGY4RD1_&sig=QbG0F5vmACM_dUoBkTgYGnvvbhA (Accessed July 16, 2009).
Hi Dominique-Alain,
Your course 'Discovering Twitter for education' looks really interesting. Thanks for sharing it. Would it be ok with you add the course to demo.moodle.org?
Your course 'Discovering Twitter for education' looks really interesting. Thanks for sharing it. Would it be ok with you add the course to demo.moodle.org?
If you think it could be useful. Please let do it. I have put this course under Creative Common (BY-NC).
English being not my first language, maybe just wait I let it proof read by someone else before publishing on Moodle.org.
I send you an email next week when this last polish has bee done.
Cheers,
-dajan
English being not my first language, maybe just wait I let it proof read by someone else before publishing on Moodle.org.
I send you an email next week when this last polish has bee done.
Cheers,
-dajan