Moodling

An interesting fact…

Source: home School Progress Report 2009: Academic achievement and demographics, Home-School Legal Defense Association http://www.hslda.org/docs/study/ray2009/default.asp, Visited 10 May 2010

Instead of replicating what already works well outside school,

We need to focus on what can’t be replicated outside of school.- From a webinar on Schools 2.0

Moodle in Two Minutes

What is Moodle…?

• Learning Management System (LMS)• Open Source (freely available and modifiable)• One of most widely used LMS (Moodle)• Eaglenet is hosted at

MoodleRooms (USA)• A Platform / Tool

Serves content, assignments, quizzes,grader, questionnaires, activity logs,news, roles (eg. parents), blogs, RSS

“The design and development of Moodle

is guided by a ‘social constructionist pedagogy’”

Philosophy

5 Principles of Moodle (From “Forums, the heart of Moodle”)

1. We are all potential learners and teachers2. We learn a lot by watching others3. We learn well by creating and expressing for

others4. Understanding others transforms us5. We learn well when the learning

environment is flexible and adaptable to suit our needs

How do you use Moodle?