Apparently a nice presentation about Moodle at FLOSSIE

Apparently a nice presentation about Moodle at FLOSSIE

by W Page -
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Hello All!

I just received this e-mail from the OOo "discuss" list regarding the FLOSSIE conference [Check it out here]. Moodle is mentioned nicely here. The name of the presenter is not mentioned. Would be nice to know who did the presentation. [Moodle bold and color - my own smile]

WP1

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Hello all,

We just got back from the FLOSSIE conference, and it went very well.
Kudos to Ian Lynch for organizing it and making it happen. There were
about 50 attendees or so.

Simon Phipps kicked off the conf with an interesting presentation about
how open source is the natural result of a highly connected society.
Simon talked the "Participation Age". How we are moving into a world
where the general population are not mere consumers of content, but
active participants in creation of content. Perfect examples of this
being open source, blogs, etc.

The reason why I detail this is that, without being planned, this theme
set the stage for the rest of the conference. A lot of the subsequent
talks went back to the concept of paricipation. Someone gave a
presentation about Moodle, an open source Course Management System that
lets students be active participants in learning. This man setup a wiki
with a topic for a story and asked the kids to colaboratively develop
the story, wiki-style. Moodle has a chat room, pop quizes and activities
for the kids.

Ian of course talked about the INGOTs program, which is all about
learning through participation. Instead of reading something on a book
and answering an exam paper, in INGOTs kids have to demonstrate their
skills in practice. Furthermore, kids participate in assessment, and are
encouraged to self-assess as part of the learning process. So again, it
goes with the theme of participation.

Naturally, I talked about OOoAuthors. My emphasis was on what OOoAuthors
does to make it *easy* for people to participate. I talked about our
review process and how we use it as a way to let anyone, regardless of
level of expertise, to participate in the project. I also briefly showed
how we use technology (Plone) to make this review process easier.


The talks were very well received. There were three OOo volunteers
present: Ian Lynch, myself, and Iain Roberts from OOoAuthors. Speaking
of which, it was great meeting you Iain! smile We also had help from
Mark, who works with Ian Lynch in The Learning Machine.

The talks were very well received, and we had a lot of positive
comments. We handed out several OOo CDs. We talked to several people
about INGOTs and they were interested. And a lot of people liked what
they saw on the OOoAuthors website.

All in all, it went very well. So kudos to Ian Lynch and SchoolForge for
making this happen, and thanks to the OOo community members Simon and
Iain for comming over. It would have been good to have a few more people
help out. Perhaps next year?

Cheers,
Daniel.
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Re: Apparently a nice presentation about Moodle at FLOSSIE

by Martin Dougiamas -
Picture of Core developers Picture of Documentation writers Picture of Moodle HQ Picture of Particularly helpful Moodlers Picture of Plugin developers Picture of Testers
In your link is the programme, WP ... it was Drew Buddie who gave the talk. Nice one Drew! approve
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Re: Apparently a nice presentation about Moodle at FLOSSIE

by W Page -
Ahhhhhhhhhh, yes it is!  Thanks Martin!

Drew, I also signed up to receive your "PodCasts" via Bloglines.  Have not had a chance to listen yet but they look interesting.

WP1
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Re: Apparently a nice presentation about Moodle at FLOSSIE

by Sean Keogh -
They originally asked me, but I couldn't make it those days...so I dropped Drew in it by suggesting him to the organisers.

He actually seemed pretty pleased that I had suggested him smile


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Re: Apparently a nice presentation about Moodle at FLOSSIE

by Drew Buddie -

Jings. Crivens. Help ma Boab! [that'll mean something to anyone who reads The Sunday Post]  I'm flattered to hear my name mentioned so nicely.  I am glad i was able to do even slight justice to the amazing tool that is MOODLE.

For the record I used princply the same presnetation i did at last year's Oxford MoodleMoot, with a few changes, including the introduction of Martins World Tour music - they loved it, broke the ice nicely - and the t-shirt pic with martin ("Moodle needs you").

Here, if you are interested is a wee bit more detailed reference describing the presnetation written by John Ingleby of Schoolforge.

"Moodle - educational tools at their best

Drew Buddie gave a highly entertaining talk about Moodle (http://www.moodle.org), based on his experiences of developing Merapolis (http://www.merapolis.co.uk/moodle/) at the Royal Masonic School (http://www.royalmasonic.herts.sch.uk/). In fact it was so entertaining that I made few notes, and you should view the slides! (It was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike any other presentation I have seen; excellent - SteveLee)

Most groups of pupils divide into three: those who participate a lot, those who participate sometimes, and those who don't participate at all. Moodle is a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and the most striking result of using it is that more pupils express things they would never express in class. In a class using Moodle, the level of participation is much more evenly distributed across the whole group.

Moodle also meets pupils' need to work at Twitchspeed (http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Twitch%20Speed.html) - author Marc Prensky's term for the generation that is growing up with game machines and computers.

Moodle is rapidly gaining favour over more expensive proprietary VLEs. Becta is actively investigating Moodle for the DfES e-Strategy (http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/e-strategy/). The next version will incorporate the open source Learning Activity Management System (http://www.lamsinternational.com/) (LAMS) and be capable of handling SCORM (http://www.rhassociates.com/scorm.htm) objects. "

Everyone seems to like Prensky's 'twitchspeed' phrase - how I wish I had coined it!

Drew

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