Teaching with Moodle

Hi Richard,
Yes, please let's have an audio version of your talk. I might not look at it but will certainly listen to it.

Poor (but willing) aka Joseph

I am working on a neat project today and wanted ya'lls input if you have time. I have been asked to write an article for a North Carolina publication on social software. I am Here is part of the request--

Social Software used effectively in the classroom:
Teachers are just beginning to explore the technologies you are using... they can't wrap their heads around what this might look like in a real class. Since we can't access the wikis your classes are developing, perhaps we can take snapshots of the activity and put together a demonstration/slide show with narration or scripting to show the process. Like this http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html only focusing on the middle school science classroom, not heavy metal umlaut... with this we might give real examples and integrated lessons (from your colleagues or other teachers online) from various grade levels or disciplines. There could be different articles on blogs, wikis and podcasts or you can pull the approaches together by theme/instructional value, rather than focusing on the tool or software.

I am thinking about using Snapz Pro http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ to capture screens and come up with the narration to highlight how we are using Moodle as an instructional tool. They want us to focus on the instructional strategies instead of Moodle itself. So, if you have time, could you tell me about one of your favorite strategies and what you have used it to teach...for example to help my students that are poor readers, using a Moodle webpage, students use the iBook's text-to-speech feature with head phone to have the page read to them. It seems to help those with attention deficit problems too. So, I would use the Snapz to capture the students loading a web page in our class moodle, highlight the text, and pull down the menu to start the reading. I know I will include that instructional strategy because it can be used with any web page. We just forget to use it. The students like. I think I will start using screencasts with Moodle as I teach middle and high school science.

The article will be posted like this one: http://www.learnnc.org/articles/print/sciinq-intro I am stealing as much as I can from this article and fitting how I am using social software like RSS, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Bloglines, podcasting, blogs, and Moodle with it wikis, forums, and other great VLE features.