Innovative Teaching

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Innovative Teaching

• What is Moodle?
• MOODLE integrates traditional classroom
  instruction with online course material giving
  students and teachers access to their course
  material and assignments anytime, anywhere!
• MOODLE is amazingly flexible for the instructor!

Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
Environment
the possibilities are endless..
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Why Moodle?

• Benefits for the Teacher
• organized lessons
• archived material year-after-year
• embedded digital media
• the opportunity for parental involvement
• anytime, anywhere access

• Types of Moodle in Schools
• As a credit recovery tool
• As full course offerings within the brick and
  mortar building
• As enrichment to the face-to-face classroom
  (K-12)
• As teacher professional development
• For small scale classroom projects within the
  day/week or year

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Online Teaching and Learning

• Consider these possible reasons for moving the
• Activity online
• work can continue after class ends
• students are at another location
• need variety of media, branching, linking,
  multiple quick calculations
• use class time differently
• meet 21st century student expectations
• easier to distribute or update information
• students can think/work when and where they want
  to
• http//vudat.msu.edu/online_right/

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How do I begin?
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Critical Things to Know

• The Yellow Question mark will tell you what to do
  with that area or field
• Turn Editing on (it will say off when you first
  log in) is the FIRST thing you do as the
  instructor!

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Add a Resource - Uploading a Document

• How to upload files
• ? Add a resource (choose compose a web page)
• ? Click on chain link to Insert web link
• ? Browse twice for the file you need
• ? Open and Upload file
• ? Double click the file in the upper dialog box
• ? Click ok
• When a file is added from a courses Home Page,
  links can easily be created to that file from
  anywhere in the course
• Uploaded files can easily be renamed or moved
  uploaded files wont go away if the web server
  moves

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What is a Forum in Moodle?

• Forum an open discussion, typically started
  with a topic starter, and
• then students expand upon the original thought
  with clarification,
• discussion, arguments and thoughts, both to the
  original statement and to
• the other posters.
• How to add a forum
• Click on Add an Activity
• Choose Forum
• Name the Forum
• Provide a clear introduction (For ex Please
  respond by clicking on the questions listed below
  or add your own question by clicking on Add a
  new discussion topic)
• Add ratings if applicable (do not force everyone
  to be subscribed)
• Go back to your course and click on the forum
  just created
• Add a new discussion topic for each question

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Adding an Activity - Audio Recorder

• The Audio Recorder learning tool allows students
  to
• record an MP3 audio file, saving to a local
  folder. The
• student can then upload it as an assignment.
• Click on Audio Recorder
• Name your assignment
• Give clear directions to your students.
• Determine how many points the assignment is worth
• Select a start and due date if you choose
• Click Save

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Embedding Videos

• How to embed a Teacher Tube video
• Find a video on Teacher Tube and locate the
  "embed code" on right (http//www.teachertube.com/
  videoList.php?pgvideomostviewed)
• Choose "Add a Resource"
• Choose "Compose a web page"
• Name the webpage in the "General" area (ex name
  of video)
• Scroll down to the second section in the Moodle,
  "Compose a web page" (You will see the words,
  "Full Text")
• Click on the icon in the tool bar area that has
  the screen tip "Toggle HTML Source".  It looks
  like this ltgt.  You will be in "text mode" to
  insert the embed code
• Paste the embed code in the text area while you
  are in Text Mode 
• Click the icon ltgt again to go back
  to "WYSIWYG" Mode (What You See Is What You Get)
  once the code is embedded
• Scroll down to save your work

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How to Embed a VoiceThread

• Find a Voicethread multi-media production that
  offers an embed
• code by browsing www.VoiceThread.com
• Click on the VoiceThread
• Click on menu in the upper left-hand corner
• Click on Embed
• A dialog box named, Embed This VoiceThread will
  open
• Click on copy on the right-hand side. Be
  careful not to copy the link at the bottom where
  it says, Copy This
• Go to your Moodle, turn editing on, choose Add a
  Resource, choose Compose a web page
• Name the web page and scroll to the second
  section
• Click on the ltgt icon Toggle HTML Source
• Right click and paste the embed code for the
  VoiceThread into Moodle.

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the possibilities are endless
Q A Thank You!!! Suzana Baker
sbaker_at_eville.wnyric.org Betsy Hardy
ehardy_at_caboces.org