distance education with moodle day 2
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Moodle Resources & Blocks - how we provide information to our students Instructional Design to create an effective lessonHow Moodle Activities can facilitate interactive learning Collaboration among learners - the social part of learningTRANSCRIPT
Distance Education with Moodle
Joan CoyPrincipal PAVEPWSD#76
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Sharing…
What is one thing you found interesting from yesterday?
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Day 2 Moodle Tools & Design Moodle Resources & Blocks - how we
provide information to our students
Instructional Design to create an effective lesson
How Moodle Activities can facilitate interactive learning
Collaboration among learners - the social part of learning
Inquiry in Action
1. Break into groups of three
2. Place orange on paper and draw 6 circles
3. Peel orange
4. Cover circles with orange peel1. How many circles are covered?2. Any ideas about the surface area of a sphere?3. How did this activity feel to you?
Inquiry in action
Strategies for Distance Learning
Students control over their learning leads to taking responsibility for their own learning▪ Choice for quick group opinions▪ Self checks▪ Lesson▪ Self reflections using questionnaire▪ Glossary
Students as Creators
Evidence of Student Engagement
We can group Moodle activities into three general functional categories: 1. Assessment 2. Collaboration 3. Communication
1. Assessment
QuizAssignmentLesson Survey
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2. Collaboration
GlossaryDatabaseWorkshop
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3. Communication
ForumChoiceQuestionnaireChat
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Not all new ideas work!
http://xkcd.com/755/
Let’s use choice to decide what we want to do: 1. Assessment 2. Collaboration 3. Communication
A Moodle Sandbox
http://ecommunity.pwsd76.ab.caClick on PAVE at ecommunityThen Go to Sandbox (top right)
Break Time
Working with Moodle Activities
Lunch Time
Welcome back!
A time for you to work on your own lesson
How do we make distance learning more effective?
Three step interviews – create groups of threeDecide who is A, B , C
Interview 3A is speakerB is paraphraserC is interviewer
Interview 2A is paraphraserB is interviewerC is speaker
Interview 1A is interviewerB is speakerC is paraphraser
How do we make distance learning more effective?
Topic for the 3 minute interviews:
1. What did you already know about effective distance education?
2. What did you learn to make your course more effective?
3. What would you like to learn in Moodle and distance education?
You will be asked to share this with the whole group.
Break Time
Our Ongoing Challenge
How to use Moodle in creative and interesting ways to better serve our students?
The dynamic, changing nature of distance education courses.
Continual professional growth of distance education teachers
Looking ahead…
Here is a link to a site with 42+ interesting ways to use Moodle http://bit.ly/i5Lh7a
Here is a link to a video presentation on new features of Moodle 2 http://bit.ly/h298pk
Continuing the Conversation
Joan [email protected]@joancoy