Outline for the Showcasing Ontario Best Practices presentation at CanMoot09.

1. Showcasing Ontario Best Practices

2. Elementary Sector Chris Fuerth

3. Moodle Best Practices at Bogart P.S.

4. Staff Moodle I have set up a staff moodle as an area where staff can experiment with moodle resources before actually trying them out “live” with their class. In addition, it is a spot to share resources. Pictured here are news items, extensive documentation I’ve put together, including videos, and an area with links to open source software for school and/or home.

6. Intermediate Homeroom moodles My homeroom moodle is set up as a one-stop moodle for intermediate students, rather than having a different moodle for each subject. Pictured here is an RSS feed for the Toronto Star, the CBC and the Weather Network, as well as documentation for software we use for assignments, class news, and links useful for ongoing activities

8. English Literacy is a major focus in our school and in our board, so English on the homeroom moodle is divided into reading, writing and media

12. Use of Moodle in the Jr. Division Allison Pottie, a gr. 4 teacher in our school, is one of four junior teachers whom have created a moodle in the past two months. In additions to moodle topics for each subject her students learn, she has chosen to create a moodle topic for each reading group, with forums that address pre-arranged discussion topics

13. Allison uses images and information very effectively within the summary bar of each topic to convey information to students without students having to leave the page

14. Weekly/monthly strategies for reading independently are made very clear in a moodle topic of their own Comprehensive news items are made available for students and parents

15. Forums are a big part of what Allison’s students do on their moodle. This particular forum on reactions to cigarette packaging received 21 responses in 6 days, in a class of 20 students.

18. Secondary Sector Anita Drossis, Nathalie Rudner

19. Anita Drossis Nathalie Rudner York Region District School Board Moodle in Ontario Secondary Schools

20. Address Different Learning Styles Improve Literacy Skills Create Collaborative Workspaces Provide Feedback to Students Moodle is used to

22. Resources in the Moodle: Smartboard lessons, notes, handouts, lab sheets, videos, applets, solved problems

24. A database can be used for student projects A glossary can be used to create an electronic word wall

26. - to practice application questions - to post digital projects (proposal and draft of project were done using assignment tool Q & A discussion forums

28. Example 1: Approved Example 2: With comments A group design lab done in a Wiki allows for student collaboration and feedback from teacher

29. Teachers collaborate in a Moodle to plan and register for 2009 YRDSB Science Olympics

31. Hot Potato quizzes with Moodle provides students with a variety of assessment opportunities Online quizzes in Moodle gives students feedback on their knowledge and understanding

32. Not for Profit Sector Nancy Friday

33. Promising Practices Adult Literacy Students Not-for-profit Open Spaces – Open Minds Nancy Friday from the AlphaPlus Centre, Toronto, Ontario www.alphaplus.ca

36. Online Courses + Moodle Intro

41. Rubert’s Word of the Day!

44. Post Secondary Sector Kevin Pitts, Bob Boyczuk, Mike Martin

48. Showing

49. Doing

50. In Context

51. Interacting (S-S)

52. Interacting (S-C)

53. Interacting (S-T)

54. Q & A Thanks for having us! 