Paula Clough MEC 2010 Tempe, AZ

Introduction
Paula Clough Ed Tech Coordinator Douglas Unified Schools

Moodle.org messaging Paula Clough Email: paula_teach@yahoo.com Twitter: paula_teach

Choice Features
Only one question or Choice allowed. Many answers possible. Limits may be set on each answer. Can select whether to publish results to students or not and when to publish. Choose whether results are anonymous or not. Choose whether to have a column for unanswered. Can allow choice to be updated. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Choices

Practical Uses of Choice

from Kristian Still (Moodle.org)

A simple question to answer, to kick start - the beginning of a lesson. A question left unanswered from a lesson - that needs an answer. Now home study. As feedback about a lesson, as assessment for learning. As they are so fast to set up - they can even be used as a polling tool, although there are other tools out there.

Simple Poll With Images/Videos/ Sounds

Use HTML Coding in the answers to pull in pictures/ videos / sounds Video of how to by Mary Cooch: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php? d=145882#p637792 Choice can be used for

Voting Mock or Real

Students can participate in elections. Use anonymous publishing after the close of the choice. Automatic resultsno ballot counting Can also be used for mock

Research Project Task List

List the steps for a project. Students can update the choice. Students return to choose the step they have just completed. Fast and easy monitoring for teacher and students.

Register for a Group/ Course

Students choose a group or activity. Teacher can decide whether to allow changes. Can limit number who can chose each group. With report, teacher can

Agreement
From Art Lader (Moodle.org)

User agreements, assignment criteria, anything that students need to take responsibility for reading and understanding Choice allows teachers to track who have said they

Quiz Features
Uses a question bank that allows sharing of questions across the course or the Moodle site. Allows a variety of answers: Multiple choice, checkbox, true/false, short answer, essay, random short answer, matching, cloze, etc. Easy to export/import Can allow multiple retakes Allows manual grading Permits question and answers to be shuffled Item anlysis http://docs.moodle.org/en/Quiz_module

Checklists
Checklists for projects, teaching units, program skills. If reuse with new group, need to clear all user data first, per Brett

Building Speed of Knowledge Use

Teacher builds a quiz of knowledge in course. (could be vocabulary, basic skills, etc.) Practice test is timed with unlimited retakes. Students practice the test with teacher checking their time. (Competing against self) When student gets the time where they want, they take a final quiz based on the practice test they have been practicing on.

Random Questions
To use random selected question, must put the questions into the same category. Different question will be selected each time a student takes the quiz. Will not allow the same question twice in the same quiz.

Lesson Features
Very structured. Allows the delivery of content and questions that are answered to show learning. Complicated to set up, but once finished can be very helpful as the content and questions go together. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Lessons

Audio/Podcasts/Videos
Adding audio or video to the lesson allows multimedia content delivery.

Glossary Features
Two main types: Main and Secondary Can be teacher only or students Upload of files or pictures allowedonly Encyclopedia format shows pictures in the entry. Searchable in several ways Linking is available May restrict duplicate entries Comments may be allowed Easily shareable with import/export feature http://docs.moodle.org/en/Glossaries

Glossary Formats
Continuous Without Author Encyclopedia Entry List FAQ Full Without Author Full With Author Simple, dictionary style

Database Features
Very flexible as the fields have to be added. Many different types of fields. (date, text, checkbox, dropdown boxes, pictures, files, URL, etc.) Set up Templates
HTML can make the lists look special

Searchable Comments may be allowed Presets and entries can be shared Can use groups http://docs.moodle.org/en/Database_module

Searchable Linkable Teache r and / or Student

Format is flexible

Comments

Restrict duplicate entries

Must set Templates Shareable

Glossary
Secondary can feed into Main

Collaborative Uses

Database
Must set Fields

Several Formats No Groups

Authorization can be required

Groups

New Resource for dictionary/glossaries

New website which allows words to be listed. Pick the definitions already uploaded or add own. Download lists in several versionsincluding Moodle http://dictionary.k12opened.com/ Thanks Karen Fasimpaur and K12opened.com

Language/Vocabulary
Audio Pictures Super Glossary SchoolNet Multimedia
http://moodle.schoolnet.cl/mod/glossary/view.php? id=2&mode=&hook=ALL&sortkey=&sortorder=&fulls earch=0&page=1http://moodle.schoolnet. cl/mod/glossary/view.php? id=2&mode=&hook=ALL&sortkey=&sortorder=&fulls earch=0&page=1

SchoolNet

Sharing With Others

Annotated Book Reports Sharing Relevant Internet Links Sharing Reports Mini Research Project Biographies

Communication
Teachers Blog Classroom Blog Collaborative Work FAQ Glossary Tip of the Day

Teacher Blog
Continuous without author format. Put date first to have in order through the school year. Allow comments or not.

Collaborative Work
Set up the Glossary. Click on the Locally Assign Roles at the top of the set up screen. Assign students the teacher role so they can go in and edit the entries. Use Encyclopedia format if you want students to be able to upload a picture and show it in the entry. Make sure the edit always is set to yes. When the project is completed, you can reset the glossary settings to edit always: no and take the students out of the locally assigned roles as teachers.

Classroom Management
Classroom Portfolio Participant Introductions Student of the Week

Classroom Portfolio
Students have a place to keep work. Set to authorize entries and then dont. It will remain private between teacher and student.

Student of the Week

Encyclopedia format Enter photo with or without text. (Text would be included) Use Random Glossary Entry Block

Assignments
Ratable Recipe Archive Poetry Collection What Happened in the Year.? Overview of Topic Community Directory

Poetry Collection

What Happened in the Year?

Students pick a year and enter important events in history for that year. No duplicate entries are allowed. May enter events forgotten by another

Study Resources
Quiz Questions from Student Mini Research Concepts from Chapter 1,2,3 Course Notes Glossary

Resources
All About Citations: Our Class Bibliography Rules Database of Articles Job Tips and Tricks Moodle Tips Glossary

All About Citations: Our Class Bibliography Rules

Give the description of the parts of a bibliography entry for each type of resource. Give an example in the same entry for reference.

Journal & Daily Assignments

A little fancy HTML to get the look. Shows on Interactive Whiteboard at beginning of class. Has Journal prompt and the work of the day. Students who miss class can easily see what was done.

Individual Student File Repository

Database for Collecting Quiz/Test Questions

Students make questions for the quiz or test. Objectives/ Standards POs listed with check boxes to link to the question.

National Science Database

Resources to go with specific curriculum performance objectives. Can be shared with other teachers/sites easily with import and export features.

Research Results Database

Database can allow groups to separate while they work. Can become a teaching/prese ntation tool. Could be a research tool for this or other classes.

Book Reviews

Maryels Database Presets

Story and sharing all kinds of info and resources. Sharing the presets for databases. Some creative HTML for columns and

Characterization Database

Student Behavior Records/Referrals

Fields are editable Can set it to look like a form already in use. Easily searchable to see how many referrals a student has. Could be made available to all teachers/ adminstrators

Moodle
Open Source moodle.org Demo.moodle.org Using Moodle forums Moodle Exchange MoodleCommons.org Message me through Moodle.org

Thanks to:
Moodle.org--- all of them especially Helen, Mary and Maryel Javier Baca without him there would be no Moodle at DUSD Leanne Bowley (my boss) for encouraging me to work on this presentation Moodlerooms for the training and moral support (Gina and Sheila and others) Larry for all your patience while I moodle