nice, good for a start, thanks
hmmmm, rethinking it: it is even more then a start:
- students can comment on the files they bring in
- students can organise the files in releated threads
- they even could organise a project-documentation phase by phase inside a group-privat forum
This way you have a free-format-workshop-tool: during the process and/or at the end you can see how the students organised their resources and the group-process and who was most active, nice.
Go tell it the teacher right away who raised this BlackBoard-option.
If you give every student his/here own forum, you even could play portfolio:
- The threads in the personal forums are the TOC of the "proof-of-competences" students have to deliver
- you can comment on the deliveries, students can bring in improvements
- the path itself is a kind of monitoring-process of the "grow" of the student
- the end of each thread is also the endresult for the portfolio (in the future a public-key-stamp could be attached to the file that passes the criteria of the educational institute..)
One further idea, depending on resources, you could give the group a whole course and make them teachers of it.
Someday, though there will also be a normal Files area for students: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=862 (before it turned into a discussion of the Workshop module
Assigning a course to each student or group will give the students an exelent work space if you have the resources. There are however a few objections as to not needed options as follows:
- Teachers Forum ( This would remove the private forum from Teachers only)
- Grade (Not realy needed
- Settings (Not realy needed)
If these could be removed in a special module that would be great!
You don't even have to give every student their own forum, simply create a forum which is forum type "Each person posts one discussion". Then it's only one link at the main page (ie. "Student room", "File share forum" or other), but each students automatically starts their own thread. They can still reply to other student's posts.
This seems (to me) the best way until there is a "Files area" to the students, or the possibility to give access to a particular forum to only a part of the class. This would be a great option if it was possible to change access during the year and/or creat new such forums (and why not other elements) during the year.
Interesting discussion!
I am working to apply moodle to our senior high's Senior Project beginning this fall.
A portfolio is the primary product for this project. I'd love to see a visual example of how to use the forums as student portfolios.
Also, is there a way to pull out files from moodle and place them in a separate web site or some other medium. I'd like our students to be able to walk away with a CD-ROM portfolio demonstrating their achievement. Any ideas on how to easily pull from moodle once it has been built?
Thanks,
Pete
Pete said,
---"I'd like our students to be able to walk away with a CD-ROM portfolio demonstrating their achievement. Any ideas on how to easily pull from moodle once it has been built?"
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Your question invites questions. Do you want a static or dynamic site on the CD. If static then your files can be a compostion of linked html files; but if you want a dynamic (interactive) site then basic componets are required ie.( web server(Apache), data-base program(Mysql), application program(Moodle) These components live in a server/client relationship which requires an operating system. Simply said; it is not easy to get a dynamic web site to live on a portable "CD"
I am not an experienced programmer, but hope this provides some insight.
Dave
To clarify:
I want to use Moodle for its dynamic on-line capabilities but will at the end need some tool to house and organize students' portfolio artifacts. A web site would be perfect for this.
My question, is there an easy way to take the discussion, documents, and journal items that are created in moodle and put them into a web site or a hyperlinked PowerPoint? It is this product I imagine them being able to have on CD.
Thanks again,
Multimedia Specialist
Courseware Development Center
Humboldt State University
(707) 826-3633
mmp5@humboldt.edu
I was wondering if you would be able to share any ideas about how to set up a module/course for Senior Project.
