Easy, Open Collaboration with Moodle

Joan CoyWanda Dechant

Introductions

Please share the following information

• Your name• Your educational role• What you like to take away

Questions are welcome at anytime…

Access to the collaboration site and on-line courses

This is our teacher collaboration site:http://collaboration.pwsd76.ab.ca

This is where our students access on-line courses:

http://ecommunity.pwsd76.ab.ca

Creation of an open sharing environment using Moodle

Started as small group of teachers, online school

Group within school division Taking courses to students in

classroom Multi-School division Looking at working with a provincial

group to share courses

Ideas about effective learning communities - Relationships

http://www.flickr.com/photos/divemasterking2000/2156349505/

Ideas about effective learning communities - Respect

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/3677605158

Ideas about effective learning communities - ownership

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lagohsep/4626873569

Ideas about effective learning communities - open/accepting

http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvinfornia/4740637825

Ideas about effective learning communities - no egos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlo-arioli/1657433876/

Ideas about effective learning communities

Relationships are the foundation – time is needed to build trust

Respect is needed for time and contributions of each and every member

Teachers need to have ownership of the activities of the community

An atmosphere of openness and acceptance is necessary for all members

“Check egos at the door” to allow for real sharing

Teacher Collaboration Site

http://collaboration.pwsd76.ab.ca

In groups of about 3-ish, please take 5 minutes to discuss/brainstorm the following:

What features do you see as essential in creating and maintaining a learning community?

What does sharing mean to you?

Ideas re: Sharing Define sharing before entering

collaboration Open sharing – little bits or chunks – share

what you can Talk with your jurisdiction, what does

sharing mean to them? Minister of Ed… reminded us that we are

employed provincially, not only jurisdictionally

Take what you need, use, change and re-share …

Some might not want our resources “bastardized”…..

Ideas re: Sharing What is of value… content, framework,

components, best practices, ability to edit/modify, etc

Focus on best practice, not just on Moodle Voluntary participation for sharing How are parents involved… communication

with families and communities.. How can we all work together to share information and resources (parents have great ideas & are a huge support in education)

Encourage 2-way sharing… give and take….

Ideas re: Sharing Time – how can we work for effectively to

save ourselves time Share at any point – it does not have to be

perfect… the process of sharing and tweaking is so important, also helps the “takes” to be more willing to customize the course for their context

Courses are not static… we are not publishing

One teacher starts a project/course/resource with the time they have, then pass it on to another teacher to add their time and viewpoint into it… accumulation of efforts

Strategies to Integrate on-line Materials into Classroom Setting

Students control over their learning therefore require students to be responsible for their own learning▪ Choice for quick group opinions▪ Self checks▪ Lesson▪ Self reflections using questionnaire▪ Glossary

Students as Creators

E-Community Site

The E-Community site is for the students

http://ecommunity.pwsd76.ab.ca

Aligned Improvement

The team of teachers, administrators, IT and central office

working together…

gives a much higher chance

of successLisa Miller

Research Base

Evidence of Student Engagement

Promising Strategies or idea to help continue the collaboration or to include students/parents in the process • Feel free to add ideas to a discussion

form on this at any time (if you join us in the ATLE sharing, you will have a place to continue this conversation)

• Please feel free to join in on the provincial Moodle meeting on Wednesday (Mini-Moodle Summit)…… ideas on how to share provincially

Interview

What is one thing you found interesting from the past 90 minutes?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tncountryfan/5189758580

Continuing the Conversation

Wanda Dechantwandadechant@pwsd76.ab.ca@wdechant

Joan Coyjoancoy@pwsd76.ab.ca@joancoy