Hi Brain,
Do you know that there's a Moodle for Language Teaching forum? At the moment a series of reviews are being published there of a book: Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching Book Review Discussion. and there is a lot other helpful information too.
If you do a Google search for "Moodle language course" it will come up with quite a lot of results - I found this Moodle language course template. And in the Cool Competition you can find Mystery Moodle Fun and Français Langue Etrangère that you can download (at the moment there are some technical problems with what you see online but the downloads should be OK). And here's one of mine that you can look at : English for Beginners
Cheers,
Glenys
Do you know that there's a Moodle for Language Teaching forum? At the moment a series of reviews are being published there of a book: Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching Book Review Discussion. and there is a lot other helpful information too.
If you do a Google search for "Moodle language course" it will come up with quite a lot of results - I found this Moodle language course template. And in the Cool Competition you can find Mystery Moodle Fun and Français Langue Etrangère that you can download (at the moment there are some technical problems with what you see online but the downloads should be OK). And here's one of mine that you can look at : English for Beginners
Cheers,
Glenys
Hi Glenys
Thanks for the reply. I just ordered and downloaded the Stanford book and the beginner's design Guide. Combined with the other links you provided in your reply, I have a lot of reading to do. Thanks again.
Brian
p.s. I'm really wishing here, but would there happen to be a video somewhere showing some, or preferably a lot, of the stuff I'll find in the reading?
Thanks for the reply. I just ordered and downloaded the Stanford book and the beginner's design Guide. Combined with the other links you provided in your reply, I have a lot of reading to do. Thanks again.
Brian
p.s. I'm really wishing here, but would there happen to be a video somewhere showing some, or preferably a lot, of the stuff I'll find in the reading?
Hi Brian,
They're not specially related to language teaching but I'd highly recommend Mary Cooch's videos : UsingMoodle I'd also recommend her book Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide Book ... even if you don't teach that age group. Using Moodle by Jason Cole and Helen Foster is also very useful and a free download.
I find videos great for giving an idea of what's possible but when I want to implement the ideas I find a book or a pdf with lots of screenshots more practical. But that's maybe because I'm far from being a digital native.
You'll find a lot of video tutorials out there if you do a Google search, but in my opinion, most of them are pedagogically dreadful: nothing prepared, just someone waffling on, the cursor wandering all over the place, mistakes and backtracking, irrelevant comments, too long, not focussed on one subject, etc. ... If you find some that are not (other than Mary's) I'd be glad to know of them.
Cheers,
Glenys
In fact, I do know of other good ones in French (Moodle en 2 minutes Julien Morice and Création d’un cours, étape par étape, dans Moodle Eric Bugnet), but not in English.
They're not specially related to language teaching but I'd highly recommend Mary Cooch's videos : UsingMoodle I'd also recommend her book Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds: Beginner's Guide Book ... even if you don't teach that age group. Using Moodle by Jason Cole and Helen Foster is also very useful and a free download.
I find videos great for giving an idea of what's possible but when I want to implement the ideas I find a book or a pdf with lots of screenshots more practical. But that's maybe because I'm far from being a digital native.
You'll find a lot of video tutorials out there if you do a Google search, but in my opinion, most of them are pedagogically dreadful: nothing prepared, just someone waffling on, the cursor wandering all over the place, mistakes and backtracking, irrelevant comments, too long, not focussed on one subject, etc. ... If you find some that are not (other than Mary's) I'd be glad to know of them.
Cheers,
Glenys
In fact, I do know of other good ones in French (Moodle en 2 minutes Julien Morice and Création d’un cours, étape par étape, dans Moodle Eric Bugnet), but not in English.