Distance Education with Moodle

Joan CoyPrincipal PAVEPWSD#76

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Sharing…

What is one thing you found interesting from yesterday?

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Day 2 Moodle Tools & Design Moodle Resources & Blocks - how we

provide information to our students

Instructional Design to create an effective lesson

How Moodle Activities can facilitate interactive learning

Collaboration among learners - the social part of learning

Inquiry in Action

1. Break into groups of three

2. Place orange on paper and draw 6 circles

3. Peel orange

4. Cover circles with orange peel1. How many circles are covered?2. Any ideas about the surface area of a sphere?3. How did this activity feel to you?

Inquiry in action

Strategies for Distance Learning

Students control over their learning leads to taking responsibility for their own learning▪ Choice for quick group opinions▪ Self checks▪ Lesson▪ Self reflections using questionnaire▪ Glossary

Students as Creators

Evidence of Student Engagement

We can group Moodle activities into three general functional categories: 1. Assessment 2. Collaboration 3. Communication

1. Assessment

QuizAssignmentLesson Survey

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2. Collaboration

GlossaryDatabaseWorkshop

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3. Communication

ForumChoiceQuestionnaireChat

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Not all new ideas work!

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Let’s use choice to decide what we want to do: 1. Assessment 2. Collaboration 3. Communication

A Moodle Sandbox

http://ecommunity.pwsd76.ab.caClick on PAVE at ecommunityThen Go to Sandbox (top right)

Break Time

Working with Moodle Activities

Lunch Time

Welcome back!

A time for you to work on your own lesson

How do we make distance learning more effective?

Three step interviews – create groups of threeDecide who is A, B , C

Interview 3A is speakerB is paraphraserC is interviewer

Interview 2A is paraphraserB is interviewerC is speaker

Interview 1A is interviewerB is speakerC is paraphraser

How do we make distance learning more effective?

Topic for the 3 minute interviews:

1. What did you already know about effective distance education?

2. What did you learn to make your course more effective?

3. What would you like to learn in Moodle and distance education?

You will be asked to share this with the whole group.

Break Time

Our Ongoing Challenge

How to use Moodle in creative and interesting ways to better serve our students?

The dynamic, changing nature of distance education courses.

Continual professional growth of distance education teachers

Looking ahead…

Here is a link to a site with 42+ interesting ways to use Moodle http://bit.ly/i5Lh7a

Here is a link to a video presentation on new features of Moodle 2 http://bit.ly/h298pk

Continuing the Conversation

Joan Coyjoancoy@pwsd76.ab.ca@joancoy