TeacherTECH Tools Series: Moodle II: Intermediate Moodle Training for Educators

Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Community College  and Adult Education Educators are invited to attend our TeacherTECH Technology Tools Series workshop focused on using more advanced features of Moodle in the classroom.

Tuesdays, December 1 and December 8, 2009

4:30pm - 6:30pm

San Diego Supercomputer Center , Training Room 279

University of California, San Diego

Workshop Overview

Participants should be familiar with the basics of Moodle, including how to add activities and files, and how to navigate a Moodle course. This course will teach you strategies on how to implement online collaboration and interaction in Moodle. Covered in this course will be glossaries and online assignments, online discussion and collaboration, data driven decision making, construction of online self-graded quizzes and collection of data to help drive your instruction.

What is Moodle?

Moodle is an open source learning management system (LMS) used to augment traditional face-to-face courses and also deliver content in online courses. Moodle is a web-based, software package designed using sound pedagogical principles to help educators create effective online, constructivist, learning communities. Moodle is currently used by more than 1,000 teachers and thousands of students in San Diego area schools.

How does the use of Moodle benefit teaching and learning?

Moodle is designed around a professional learning community, it allows teachers to act as facilitators of learning and to provide a framework for face-to-face and online interaction that may take place both in and out of the classroom.  Through this framework, the students and teachers will be able to experience collaborative online interaction where ideas can be shared and a consensus to understanding can be constructed in online activities, discussions, and interactions.

Moodle also provides teachers with a means to create differentiated learning opportunities for students, where online discussion and collaboration can go on apart from other groups as needed, thereby allowing for a more individualized approach to student learning.

Course Outline

This course will teach you strategies and the how-to for implementing online collaboration and interaction in Moodle.

Session 1:  

Glossary and Online Assignments

Learn how to setup and use a Glossary with students and have students complete/turn in work online.  We will cover: Glossary; Assignments

Online Discussion and Collaboration

Learn the tools and implementation strategies to have students participate and collaborate in online discussions.  We will cover the following: Forum

Session 2:  

Data Collection Asking Questions and Data Driven Decision Making - Part 1

Learn the tools and know how to construct online, self-graded quizzes and collect data to help drive your instruction. We will cover the following: Choice; Quiz

Data Collection Asking Questions and Data Driven Decision Making - Part 2

Learn the tools and know how to construct online, self-graded quizzes and collect data to help drive your instruction. We will cover the following: Choice; Quiz

Moodle Course Hosting

After successful completion of a Moodle course, TeacherTECH will continue to host each participants Moodle Site.

Who Should Attend:

K-14 Teachers,and Administrators. Not only can Moodle be used in a classroom environment with students of all ages, but as a tool to build an online professional learning community at your school site, central office department, or with whomever you collaborate and/or support.

Please join us for an exciting and informative series of hands-on workshops presented by Jeff Sale, San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Registration is free. Space is limited. Please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space. 

For more information on future workshops, please see http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech.