3. Why Moodle?
Have been dabbling
with other University
LMS
First exposure to
Moodle was in this
course
Interested in using this
LMS in future
4. Moodle history
Part of a PhD dissertation on
Open Source software
Created with a constructivist
and social constructionist
approach to education
Modular Object-Oriented
Dynamic Learning
Environment
5. Using Moodle
Need a Moodle site and
teacher privileges
Downloads are free
Page broken down into course
sections
Resources and activities are
added to each section
9. Tools and utilities
In order to prepare this presentation, I had to
learn about the following tools and utilities:
Powerpoint ā using voice inserts
Learn about Moodle
Created wiki password to add to āWe are Mediaā
and perhaps even āMoodleā
Created blog to allow for posting of presentation
Learned about slide share (plan B in case I didnāt
create a blog)
10. Plan B happened
Unable to post audio that is embedded directly in
Power Point
Learned about Slide Casts when uploading
presentation to Slide Share
New tools used (once again) and created a Slide
Cast of this presentation
11. Powerpoint
Familiar with
Powerpoint
Had never used the
āInsert soundā feature
I would appreciate
hearing your
comments on how you
perceive itās
functionality and
applicability