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WEEKLY NEWSLETTERAND DIARY
Week Commencing xxxx 2011
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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Please send items for inclusion in the Newsletter to:
Mrs. Mary Early, Principals SecretaryEmail
[email protected]# 5275by 5 pm Thursday of each week
Copies from the Archive can be accessed on the Intranet document
site under Governance
Recent data on Moodle usage by teaching staff suggests that
virtually all modules are now at1* level and that 83% of UG and 55%
of PG modules are 2* or better. This means that mostMoodle modules
have now a fair amount of online content.In March this year I did
run a focus group session with some second year Marketing
andBusiness students where I have asked them to evaluate a range of
2* and 3* modules froman aesthetical point of view. The modules
presented to them differed in the quantity ofembedded
pictures/photos/videos and rather unsurprisingly modules with a
reasonable butnot overwhelming amount of visuals received the
highest ratings, in comparison to moduleswhich only provided a list
of links to documents or Web-sites.From the feedback it appears
that students like the provision of simple logo-type images inthe
topic headers, accompanied by explanatory labels in between links
and the inclusion ofsome embedded videos.I am aware that some staff
have already started making their modules more attractive and
inorder to provide additional ideas on what is possible and doable
I have created a templatemodule called Moodle Master Module (MMM),
which is accessed from the Moodle frontpage, the top link on the
Support Material block on the left hand side (left image
below).
Refining Moodle modules
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In a series of topics I have described some tools and
technologies which colleagues may finduseful for extending current
opportunities for online learning some of which will
hopefullyresonate with you and your students.I have also added some
Moodle resources (Assignment, Feedback, Choice etc.) as well as
aQuestionMark formative assessment which some of you are already
familiar with. If you wishto go into these activities youre asked
to enrol yourself please feel free to do so, I canalways take you
off the module later.Several of the visual resources presented make
use of so called Web2.0 tools such asGoogle Calendar,
SlideshareAudioboo, Prezietc. where the resource is hosted
elsewhereand only the embed code is put into the Moodle module
pointing to the resource.
There are several advantages to this. First you will not be in
breach of copyright legislation asyou will not make a copy of the
resource. Secondly the resource can be edited at the
remoteWeb-site, re-saved and then linked back to Moodle, without
any file upload.The disadvantages are that you will need to create
an account on the remote site to use theirservices although more
and more of these will accept standard Google orYahoo
logincredentials so the same login may be used over and over again.
As there are no costs to theuser they tend to be funded by
low-level advertising (at least in the free version). And
finallythere is no guarantee that the content will be 100%
available as it is located outside therealms of the Harper network
but due to their large user base these services are very
reliable.
The learning objects presented in topic seven ofMMMcontain
examples of severalembedded Web2.0-based learning objects. Some of
the resources mentioned were createdusing the tools demonstrated by
Russell Stannard at the Harper Teaching and Learning
Forum on the 14 July.This reminds me, if anybody wishes to have
the Screen-capture tools JingorJing Pro (asdemonstrated by Russell)
installed on their office PCs please get in touch with me in the
firstinstance.
In order for staff to get familiar with such tools and make best
use of them I have added athird training session under the term
Web2.0 for Learningto the weekly training sessions, astimetabled
below.
Moodle training sessions, summer 2011, heldin the Bamford
Library LF9.
Providing Online LearningResources
Online Communication and Reflection Web2.0 for Learning
26 July 11 am 12.30 pm 27 July 11 am 12.30 pm 12.30-1.00 pm
2 Aug 11 am 12.30 pm 3 Aug 11 am 12.30 pm 12.30-1.00 pm
9 Aug 11 am 12.30 pm 10 Aug 11 am 12.30 pm 12.30-1.00 pm
Henry Keil - e-Learning Co-ordinator,
