Using Moodle to Facilitate Online StudentCentered Education

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Using Moodle to Facilitate Online
Student-Centered Education

• Colette Cairns - PA Classroom for the Future
  Coach
• Jane Glass - Virtual HS Director
• Jill Greiner - Assistant Director of Technology

Manheim Township School District Lancaster,
PA http//www.mtwp.net
http//www.mtwp.net/jill_greiner/FETC2007
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What is Moodle?

• A free software package for producing
  internet-based courses and web sites.
• Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
  Environment
• Enjoyable tinkering
• For MTSD - a replacement for Blackboard

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Manheim Township Opening Moodle Screen
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Elementary
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Middle School Unified Arts
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AP US History
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Why Moodle?

• Created by an educator, for educators
• VERY active development community and GREAT
  online support forums and documentation
  http//moodle.org
• Server runs on Linux, Windows, OSX, and others
  and can tie into existing authentication services
  (LDAP, AD, Netware)
• Most importantly Well-designed features

• Open Source 19,487 registered sites in over 160
  countries more than tripled in a year.
  http//moodle.org/stats

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Moodle Installation

• Installation -http//docs.moodle.org/en/Administra
  tor_documentation
• Requirements - http//docs.moodle.org/en/Installi
  ng_MoodleRequirements
• Complete install packages
• Configuration - Modules to install and
  permissions
• Security and Administration
• Users - Netware

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Moodle Administration

• Courses - conversion from Blackboard and user
  created
• Administrator
• Remove Courses
• Some Features Hidden
• Open Source Add Ons - File Manager
• Teachers - Create Courses and Remove users and
  set a Key
• Participants - self enroll and profile

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Self Enroll and Profile
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Training Teachers

• Required Summer Trade-off for all 6 -12 staff
• PowerPoint - Moodle Training PowerPoint (.pdf)
• Handout - Moodle Training Handout (.pdf)
• Mini-sessions after school

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Training Students

• Moodle training site - created by training group
  but especially Jane Glass and Colette Cairns
• Guest access allowed with key key
• https//moodle.mtwp.net/course/view.php?id1304

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Blocks, Resources, and Activities
Moodle Structure
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Moodle Modules

• Content
• Interactive
• Assessment

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Content Modules

• Assignment - Specify tasks, electronic submission
• Glossary - Dynamic definition list maintenance
• Label - Allows text/graphics insertion
• Lesson - Series of pages with comprehension
  checks
• Resource - Content to enrich course
• RSS - Incorporate news feeds right into Moodle

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Content Modules
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Interactive Modules

• Chat - Synchronous discussions
• Forums - Discussion boards
• Wiki - Users can build web pages collaboratively
• Workshop - Peer assessment activities
• Internal messaging (may want to turn it off)
• Blogs

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Interactive Modules
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Assessment Modules

• Choice - Ask questions for quick feedback
• Assignments - Includes things like journals,
  uploaded files, offline activities
• Quiz - Wide range of question types
• Surveys (a few different types)

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Assessment Modules
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Elementary Samples

• Classroom by discipline
• Mrs. Steele - https//moodle.mtwp.net/course/view.
  php?id1392
• Ms. Becker - https//moodle.mtwp.net/course/view.p
  hp?id17
• Webquest - https//moodle.mtwp.net/course/view.php
  ?id1209
• Teacher Group Information Sharing -
  https//moodle.mtwp.net/course/view.php?id1395

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Secondary Samples

• MS Library Media - https//moodle.mtwp.net/course
  /view.php?id170
• HS Science - https//moodle.mtwp.net/course/view.
  php?id1256
• Colette Cairns - Introduction to Business -
  https//moodle.mtwp.net/course/view.php?id29
• Jane Glass - Virtual and Virditional - Health
  and more - https//moodle.mtwp.net/course/view.php
  ?id1451

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Committees and Training

• Moodle Training for Students
• Moodle Training for Teachers
• Instructional Learning Systems -
  https//moodle.mtwp.net/course/view.php?id1476
• Induction for New Teachers https//moodle.mtwp.ne
  t/course/view.php?id835
• Coaching of HS Teachers - PA Classrooms for the
  Future https//moodle.mtwp.net/course/view.php?id
  1503

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Contact Information
Jill Greiner - jill_greiner_at_mtwp.net Jane Glass -
jane_glass_at_mtwp.net Colette Cairns -
colette_cairns_at_mtwp.net http//www.mtwp.net/jil
l_greiner/fetc2007
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Questions
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Elementary
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Ms. Becker
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Webquest
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Elementary Math and Literacy Coaching
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Secondary Samples
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Middle School Unified Arts
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MS Library Media
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Introduction to Business
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HS Health
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