A few key selling points for having fun with moodle and making life easier for teachers

1. Moodle – making life
easier for teachers and
more fun for learners
Expolingua Berlin
October 2012
Jeff Stanford

2. Jeff Stanford
Clients include:
University of Leicester
Pearson Education
Communicaid
NILE
Berlin School of
English
Bell School
British Council

3. What makes moodle fun for
learners? Examples
http://teachereducation.org.uk/moodle/
Expolingua 2012 course
Username: guest777
Password: Guest777@

4. What makes moodle boring?
Using it only as a repository for
documents

5. What makes moodle boring?
Lack of challenge?
Only ?
Based on Bloom’s 1956 Taxonomy of Cognitive Difficulty

6. What makes moodle fun for
learners?
Stimulation through:
Multimedia
Interactivity
Collaboration
Easy navigation
Flexibility

7. What makes moodle fun for
learners? Multimedia
Audio embed audio file, voki, nanogong,
Poodll
Video embed video, media capture, embed
skype, webconferencing (e.g.
adobe connect)
Images embed images, use instead of/as well
as text, slide galleries
Reposi Flickr, youtube, dropbox,
tories google docs and more!

8. What makes moodle fun for
learners? Interactivity
Competition – grading, voting, rating
in glossary
Race – timer function in quiz module
Exploring – widget for RSS links,
dictionaries
Creativity – Portfolio Exabis/Mahara
Reward schemes - certificates

9. What makes moodle fun for learners?
Creativity and Collaboration
Teacher Messaging and Chat
Team-building exercises
Workshop for peer review
Wiki for joint editing
Reflective learning
Blog, Online Assignment

10. What makes moodle fun for
learners? Easy navigation

11. What makes moodle fun for
learners? Easy navigation

12. What makes moodle fun for
learners? Flexibility
Catch-up… If students miss a lesson,
they can find it on moodle
Homework reminders
Personalised space
Google search, wikipedia search

13. What makes moodle easier for
teachers?

14. What makes moodle easier for
teachers?
Easy communication with learners
Easy grading
Easy tracking
Easy to upload material
Easy to copy and curate materials
Easy evaluation tools
Frees up time and makes students
more independent
A home for most of your activities…

15. What makes moodle easier for
teachers? grading

16. What makes moodle easier for
teachers? tracking

17. What makes moodle easier for
teachers? Drag and drop files

18. Challenges for teachers
Having time to respond to learners
Having time to keep up to date with new
plugins
Checking copyright issues
Nurturing collaboration with other teachers
Having a sense of ownership

19. Some tools I use in conjunction with
Moodle - Sound
• Audacity – free sound mixer and recorder
• Audio Hijack Pro – record any sound stream
• Skype call recorder – record skype calls

20. Some tools I use in conjunction with
Moodle - Image
• Skitch – screen grabbing
• Camtasia – screen capture (commercial)
• Jing – free screen capture

21. Some tools I use in conjunction with
Moodle - Other
• Delicious – to bookmark sites (then embed
in moodle as an RSS feed)
• Exe – to create SCORM packages

22. Moodle links
www.jswebdesign.co.uk to rent moodle space
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/moodle1/index.html
how-to videos for using moodle
http://moodleflair.com to try out moodle
http://tinyurl.com/moodle4lgtg for forums on language
teaching with moodle
http://tinyurl.com/Moodlegd guide for teachers

23. Contact
Contact me if…
… you have questions about moodle or elearning
… you want hosting
jeff@teachereducation.org.uk