Moodle Academy
TCEA 2011
Molly Valdez, SAISD
Virtual Learning Coordinator
www.saisd.net
http://itls.saisd.net
Title/role
What do you call yourself @ a party?
What Do You Want To Do With Your Moodle?
What Do Your Students Want To Do?
What Do You Want To Do With Your Moodle?Are you seeking to best serve your
students’ needs?Is your Moodle goal simply practice or
part of your discipline?Are you attempting to save time?Can do your students make anything?Can they create a “whole” something
alone?
What Do Your Students Want To Do?
[student version]Pay attention to me.Let me find it.Let me use my tools.Let me work with my friends.Let me express it my way.
What Do Your Students Want To Do?
[adult version]Individualize their learning experienceHave choice of how to explore & reconnect dataUse their generational experience with mediaWork in a communities and/or social arenasExpress through nonlinear, associational, or
metaphorical representations
from baseline instruction in linear form to hypermedia
from instruction to construction from teacher-centered to learner-centered from absorbing material to navigation of
repositories of informationfrom school smarts to lifelong learnersfrom one-size-fits-all to customized learningfrom learning as torture to learning as funfrom the teacher as transmitter to the
teacher as facilitator
What I’ve Seen
Dodge ballPiranha ApproachDesign Over Time
TEKS!iNACOL!ISTE!CMS systems
Where are you going?
How are you going to get there?
Social ActivityVocabulary Access
Resource AResource B
ActivityResource C
Activity
Social ActivityVocabulary Access
Resource AResource B
ActivityResource C
Activity
Quick ReviewGroup Activity
Individual ActivitySelf Reflection
Standardized Q.
Portfolio Item
Presentation Item
Social ActivityVocabulary Access
Resource AResource B
ActivityResource C
Activity
New Information
Applying Skills
Evaluation Options
Social Activity Quick Review Standardized Q.
Vocabulary Access
Resource A Group Activity Portfolio Item
Resource B Individual Activity
Presentation Item
Activity Self Reflection
Resource C
Activity
A well developed “static” or “zero” block at the top of the course;
Consistent course “look and feel” by programUsing often-ignored Moodle features, such as
Hide/revealThe calendarStudent uploading of assignments/quick
gradingQuiz , glossary, and add ons
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