...with a little help from my Moodle friends

...with a little help from my Moodle friends

by Josep M. Fontana -
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Hi everybody,

I'm part of Mellange (Multilingual eLearning in LANGuage Engineering), a project involving various European universities and partners and funded by the EEC which has as one of its goals the "Creation of on-line interactive and collaborative teaching contents (courses) a novel approach in translation and language resource management training." Needless to say, we have chosen Moodle as the VLE where all of these on-line contents are going to be created, managed, experienced, enjoyed, etc. smile.

I've been put in charge of creating a Moodle course with the objective of training all the participants in the use of Moodle as well as coordinating the different tasks involved in the creation and management of the on-line learning activities that eventually will be part of a European Masters of Arts recognised by the different partners in the project.

Are there people here that have similar courses? If possible, I would like to be able to reuse as many existing materials and documentation as possible to construct our course. I'm familiar with the excellent manuals produced by Ray Lawrence, Matt Riordan and Bryan Williams and they are all going to be included as resources for the course. I would be very interested, though, in being able to use Moodle courses about Moodle so that the participants in the course could be using different Moodle modules and functionalities while learning about Moodle. Everybody can read a pdf document and I have no doubt that this is an excellent way of sharing information, but what better than learning about, say, the Lesson module than using the Lesson module itself as the vehicle?

If anybody knows of or has such courses and would not mind sharing them with us, we would be extremely appreciative. Needless to say we will also share with the community any combinations and further extensions of these courses that we develop. English would be preferred as this is the lingua franca in the project, but since this is a multi-lingual project by definition, courses or any kind of materials and documentation in Italian, French, Czech or German would be VERY welcome and useful as well.

Actually, I would really appreciate it if Italian, French, Czech and German speakers participating in this forum pointed me to Moodle manuals and tutorials in these languages that I could download somewhere.

Thanks very much in advance.


Josep M.
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Re: ...with a little help from my Moodle friends

by Ulrike Montgomery -
Joseph,

I teach Moodle to English and French teachers in Germany. In my documentaion I use screenshots of the English version - but add explanations in German. I attached a sample. If this is any use to you, you are welcome to it. At the moment we are working on an all German version.
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Re: ...with a little help from my Moodle friends

by Josep M. Fontana -
Thanks Ulrike,

Any little bit will help. I would welcome any materials in German you want to share with me. I've been rather surprised by how difficult it seems to be to find Moodle documentation in German. I've found teacher manuals in Italian and French, but not in German.

Josep M.
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Re: ...with a little help from my Moodle friends

by Ulrike Montgomery -

Josep,

we are working on an easy German  Moodle manual for beginners (teachers who have never worked much with computers) - should be finished by the end of the year. I'll pass it on to you then.
There is Moodle documentation available in German. Just check:

http://www.moodleschule.de
http://www.lehrerfortbildung-bw.de/elearning/moodle/

Hope this helps,

Ulrike



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Re: ...with a little help from my Moodle friends

by Ralf Hilgenstock -
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Hi Josep,

here is a german presentation room for moodle: http://moodle.de/course/view.php?id=87

Informations about the printed german handbooks you find on http://moodle.de.


Ralf
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Re: ...with a little help from my Moodle friends

by Josep M. Fontana -
Wow! Thanks Ulrike and Ralf. There IS a lot of documentation in German. I thought so, but my search was restricted to the moodle.org site.

All of those links and documents will be very helpful.

Josep M.

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Re: ...with a little help from my Moodle friends

by Josep M. Fontana -
Hi again Ralf,

I visited the link  http://moodle.de/course/view.php?id=87 and I notice it is a Moodle page that has a type of navigation I'm not familiar with (it looks really nice).  I'm referring to the block called 'Überclick'. How have you achieved this? Is this Jan's CMS module? or Michael Penney's Tree navigation block?

There is something similar in one of the links that Ulrike provided (http://www.lehrerfortbildung-bw.de/elearning/moodle/) but that doesn't appear to be within a Moodle site.

I'd like to have this format in one of the Moodle courses I'm creating.

Josep M.
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Re: ...with a little help from my Moodle friends

by Ralf Hilgenstock -
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Hi Josep,

in moodle.de it is the navigation block. In http://www.lehrerfortbildung-bw.de/elearning/moodle/ it is not moodle, but part of a CMS of the website.

There is an other course presenting some option presenting the course content for user (http://moodle.de/course/view.php?id=47)

Ralf

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Navigation block OR we need a Moodle blocks/modules repository

by Josep M. Fontana -
Thanks Ralph,

Now the questin is: is this Michael Penney's Tree Navigation Block or is it a different one. If it is a different one, where can one get it?


Josep M.
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