Learning Management SystemsMOODLE

Prepared by Nicole Harder

Why Moodle?

Have been dabbling with other University LMS

First exposure to Moodle was in this course

Interested in using this LMS in future

Moodle history

Part of a PhD dissertation on Open Source software

Created with a constructivist and social constructionist approach to education

Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment

Using Moodle

Need a Moodle site and teacher privileges

Downloads are free

Page broken down into course sections

Resources and activities are added to each section

Activity modules

Variety of assignments

Live chats

Lessons

Learning modules (SCROM)

Resources

Links to external websites

Links to other files

Moodle Community

MoodleMoot conference centre

Forums

Tools and utilities

In order to prepare this presentation, I had to learn about the following tools and utilities:

Powerpoint – using voice inserts

Learn about Moodle

Created wiki password to add to “We are Media” and perhaps even “Moodle”

Created blog to allow for posting of presentation

Learned about slide share (plan B in case I didn’t create a blog)

Plan B happened

Unable to post audio that is embedded directly in Power Point

Learned about Slide Casts when uploading presentation to Slide Share

New tools used (once again) and created a Slide Cast of this presentation

Powerpoint

Familiar with Powerpoint

Had never used the “Insert sound” feature

I would appreciate hearing your comments on how you perceive it’s functionality and applicability

Moodle

http://www.slideshare.net/janehart/top-100-tools-for-learning2008-presentation?type=powerpoint

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008

Number 9 - Moodle

Wiki

Social Media Tool Box

I’ve considered adding a category of media tools

Not certain how to categorize yet

Blog

In order to add content and share information, created a blog

http://nicolecourse.blogspot.com/

Slide Share

http://www.slideshare.net/

Free and able to share large presentations

Lessons Learned

It’s all about sharing

Sharing ideas, resources, tools, utilities