Using Mahara and Moodle in the classroomIntegrating new technologies to empower learning and transform leadership

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This is not rocket science

This is easyYou can use either of these tools on their ownStart off smallExperimentI'm not right

Evolution

Myportfolio

AorakiNet

Dida

Think.com

2004

2008

Today

2004

UK

Dida20% gcse from the presentation of eportfolio

All work handed in in eportfolio

Range of tools used

Different multimedia used to showcase work

Think.comUsed with juniors

Social networking

2008

Moved to NZ

Wanted something similar

Myportfolio

Aorakinet-moodle

Today is from 2008 onwards

And beyond

Thanks to Heath Sawyer

LMS and E-portfolio

Build courses

Add resources

Set assignments

quiz

Forums

Profile

Social network

Create pages

Forums

Can use lms for a little more ieCommunicationFocus point for other resources

LMS Vs. E-portfolio

Teacher lead (!)

Course delivery

LMS

Belongs to student/teacher

Learner delivery

PLE

LMSTeacher lead you do the work and leadIts for your courseIt belongs to the school

EportfolioIts a personal spaceBelongs to user Users take it with them - storing- managing- organising- showcasing their projects, their thoughts, their progress with a range of files and multimedia.Students control what they want to share, who with and how long for

LMS can be used to submit assignmentsCan use forumsEportfolio can bse used for teafchers to share resources

Used worldwide 1-100,000Free-->NZ MoodleinschoolsMinistry partner-->WatchdogInteroperable Activities for learners

Moodle is open sourceadaptable

Used world wide

Free to nz schools through the nz moodle in schoolsTested flavour

Funding available for setup with Min partner watchdog

Interoperablility

Pedagogically sound activities for learners

Integration with mahara

Over 800 insitutions*Over 40,000 users*Free until the end of 2013NZ ProductIntegrates well with Moodle

*Sept 2011

Free to NZ schools until the end of 2013

Over 800 institutions

40,000 users

Free pd to schools this year

Nz product

Ministry funding to link with LMS partners

Life long learners

Lots of growth 2011

NZ Technology 2008

Moodle and Mahara (aorakinet and MyPortfolio)

Tech cycle Plan

Research

Design

Create

Ongoing Evaluation

I always built websites to share resourcesI wanted to build a site it helps me plan and students see the full projectEportoflios had become part of my teachingStudents were doing a projectMany different documentsShow ongoing learning

2008 Introduced to students

Log in

Join group ->Our class

Update profile

Make friends

First lesson I let them run with itSocial networking!

Introduced basic toolsLet them know that I can log in as them!Its a social network for school

Engaged them from start ownership

2009 Topic at the end of the course

Block at end of course asking for all of the following to be put inGiven time at end of project

No paper

If I could not see the page they would not get a mark

Different resultsSome just attached all of the files in one block

Some like this one took some time

Nice way to show all the artefacts as a project

Dig tech nice not to use paper

2009 Ongoing Integration

Constantly referred to Myportfolio through moodleAdded templates in moodle Told student to upload the templates to moodleUsed the blog featureWiki wedAnswer 5 qs

Better portfoliosMore content with descriptionsShowcasing own workBlog helping students reflectMore likely to look at each others

2010 templates

Students joined group and copied pageSpaces that had titlesStill integrated from moodleThis was the minimum

2010 templates

Ice-Cream template

You can do thisWe alread have the reources that we have used for the passed few years

2011

Year 11 SBC group

EQ

Teacher creates courseTeacher collects feedback from markbook and forums

Teacher creates template and groupGives student feedback

Student particpates in course

Student copies template and joins groupUses template to demonstrate learning from course in Moodle

You can use either of these on their ownThey are both open sourceThey have clear roles

MahoodleNo need to 'create an account'No need to find an unused usernameNo need to think up and remember yet anotherpasswordNo new URL to rememberNo need to log in to yet another applicationNo need to upload the same profile mugshot tothe new application

https://wiki.mahara.org/images/d/d5/Mahoodle.pdf

Submitting pages from Moodle

An activity is added to Moodle Students can submit pages to MaharaView Mahara pages in the Moodle file picker (soon)

https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Moodle//Mahara_Integration/View_Submission

Can you get students to present their learning in an eportfolio?

Could you use Myportfolio next year?Could you use moodle next year?Could you use them both together?

Can you put a course onto moodle?

Or can you use them both together?

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