TeacherTECH Tools Series: Moodle I: Beginning Moodle for Educators

Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Community College and Adult Education Educators are invited to attend our Beginning  Moodle Training for Educators workshop taking place on two consecutive days at the end of October. 

Tuesday and Wednesday, October 27-28, 2009

5:00pm- 7:00pm

San Diego Supercomputer Center

Training Room 279

University of California, San Diego

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 how to setup up your Moodle course as a static web site.

Session 1 – Moodle Course Setup 

We will begin to build your Moodle course by covering the following: Teacher login; Course Setup; Blocks; Moodle Tutorials

Session 2 - Providing Resources for Students 

Add content to your Moodle course through creating resources such as web pages, links to files and web sites, and organizing files into folders accessible in Moodle.

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, UC San Diego. 

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