Glenys Hanson

Hi Jeff,

Sorry you've had so much frustration but I didn't know there was a Moodle 1.9.14.1

The current one available in Standard Moodle Packages is 1.9.11

Is that the one you're trying to install? I installed it locally on a Xampp server with no problem. Can't offer professional help - I'm just a language teacher.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Paul,

In the "student" role we can't embed Flash videos here which is why I asked Mary to insert the video interview with Martin Dougiamas - she's a "facilitator" ("teacher" role) here.

We can insert YouTube videos, and some others, via a direct link ;

There are a lot of Flipbook creators. I like the look of Codebook.

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Don,

I haven't used games (Hangman, Snakes and Ladders, Millionnaire...) much as I've mainly worked with adults. I know children and teenagers find these games attractive but watching them doing the games I notice most of their attention is on "winning" and winning quickly not on the process of learning, in my case, English. I have used crosswords (Hot Potatoes version) as part of sets of exercises around a text or a video. For example, Vocabulary Practice. They seem mainly useful for practicing vocabulary but my students' main problems are with pronunciation and rhythm, structural accuracy and fluency.

I think it's not only at university level that most students need a structured path - that's what teachers are for, isn't it? To help students learn faster than they would on their own. I have, just once or twice, met a person who had learnt a second or foreign language in a totally self-directed way and spoke it well. Naturally, I didn't meet them in a classroom - they didn't need one. I've also met a lot of immigrants who never had the chance to go to school to learn the language and after 20 or 30 years in the country still speak the language so badly it's a strain to talk to them.

Cheers,

Glenys

Merci Pascal pour ces précisions: l'installation de NanoGong n'est pas simple.

La bonne nouvelle c'est que Frank Ralf vient de créer un filtre NanoGong pour Moodle 2. voir ici. Il a besoin de testeurs alors si vous avez le temps...

Cheers,

Glenys

Hi Mary,

On the link you give http://docs.moodle.org/en/Pedagogy#Progression I see :

Let's look at a typical progression that a teacher might go through as they learn to use the Moodle tools:

1. Putting up the handouts (Resources, SCORM)
2. Having a passive forum
3. Using Quizzes and Assignments (less management)
4. Using the Wiki, Glossary and Database tools (interactive content)
5. Using the Forum seriously and actively
6. Combining activities into sequences, where results feed later activities
7. Think deeper about each activity, advanced features, unusual applications
8. Using the Survey module to study and reflect on course activity
9. Using peer-review modules like Workshop
10. Conducting active research on oneself, sharing ideas in a community of peers

But I don't see "Number 9 -Give students more power (structure/grades)"

I know Martin has developed these 10 stages in more detail in articles and MoodleMoot presentations but I couldn't find any with a Google search. I imagine you've tried too. I know I read a very good one in Spanish (with a little help from Google translator) - but it was a couple of years ago and I don't know how to find it again.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Glenys