The document discusses ways that Moodle can be used to supplement classroom learning and differentiate instruction for students with different learning styles, abilities, and interests. It provides examples of how to make the classroom more visually appealing, create resources and activities to upload to Moodle, use the group function to target different groups of students, implement flipped learning where students watch tutorials at home, and create different types of quizzes and assessments in Moodle that can be differentiated. The overall goal is to illustrate how Moodle can be a tool for differentiation to better engage diverse learners.

1. Achieving Differentiation through Moodle
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2. Differentiation
• According to learning style
• Ability
• Interest
Moodle used as a tool to supplement learning
and to extend the learning process.
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3. Look at ways to:
Make your classroom more appealing to visual
learners.
Create classroom resources and upload to
Moodle for students to ‘revisit’ after the lesson.
Look at the concept of ‘flipped learning’.
Use the ‘group’ function in Moodle
Create quizzes which can be differentiated.
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4. Make your classroom more more
Make your classroom
‘visual’ with PowerPoint
‘visual’
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5. A.
Look at the
picture story
and match a
sentence with
each picture.
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6. C
But he was happy because he had a good job
and a company car.
He applied for a job in a food company, and
sent in his CV.
He was sacked. Jake was unemployed again.
D
After six months he got promoted.
E
Jake was unemployed and was looking for a job.
F
He had to work very hard and do overtime.
G
H
But then he had an argument with his boss.
He had an interview and he got the job.
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7. LISTENING
You’re going to hear Jessica and her teacher
Adam talking about how she did in her four
weeks on The Pretenders. Listen to each week
and answer the questions in pairs.
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8. Activities to create and put more
Make your classroom
into Moodle
‘visual’
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9. Register at:
http://www.slideshare.
net
Upload PowerPoint and
embed into Moodle
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10. Flipped Learning
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11. Flipped Learning
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12. Flipped Learning
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13. • Students watch tutorial prior to the lesson on
Moodle at home. They can watch it as many
times as they like.
• Lesson time content: Workshops with a more
hands-on delivery style in smaller groups.
Learners work at their own pace.
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14. Tablet tools for creating flipped lessons
Explain Everything
http://www.explaineverything.com
Design tool and interactive whiteboard that lets
you annotate, animate and narrate
presentations.
Free alternatives:
http://www.educreations.com
http://showme.com
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15. ActivitiesMake your classroom more
within Moodle itself
‘visual’
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16. Group function
Use the group function to place your learners
into 2 or more groups according to ability,
interest or level.
When creating activities, select the group it is
designed for.
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17. The second
icon from the
end is the
group
function.
Click this
icon to read:
‘separate
groups’.
This example is a forum entry for one
group only. Under ‘separate groups’
the relevant group is selected.
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18. Useful types of quiz
• Multiple choice questions
• True or false questions
• Embedded (cloze) questions (use of code)
Easier version- Hot Potatoes. This can be put
into Moodle via the ‘Hot Pot’ activity. The
results will go into the Moodle gradebook. (HP
creates great crosswords).
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19. Multiple Choice
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20. True or false questions
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21. Embedded questions
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22. Embedded questions with drop down
boxes
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23. Crosswords in Hot Pototoes
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24. Poll
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