A presentation about Moodle and how the teaching staff at the Institute of Social Studies could use Moodle in their courses.

1. Moodle @ ISS
Hans de Zwart
Blended Learning Adviser

3. I like to talk about:
● The Internet Revolution
● Popular science writing
● (E-)Learning and its future
● Philosophy
● Open technology (e.g. Linux)
● Nintendo (DS/Wii)
● Juggling
● Civil rights in a digital sociecty
● Thoughtful design

4. My expertise is in
technology enhanced learning

6. A couple of warnings...

7. I am extremely biased when it
comes to Moodle
That is why I was hired by ISS to do this talk!

8. I can't be bothered with
political correctness

9. I might go too fast
and lose you

11. Also some promises...

12. Slides and audio will
be available online

13. You will be
inspired and enthused
to try out something new

14. I try to only offend at the
beginning of a presentation

15. A quick Moodle intro

16. 10 things to like about Moodle

17. 0. Philosophy
1. Leadership
2. License
3. Community
4. Adaptability
5. Accessibility and diversity
6. Support
7. Transparency
8. Modularity
9. Future

18. 0. Philosophy
1. Leadership
2. License
3. Community
4. Adaptability
5. Accessibility and diversity
6. Support
7. Transparency
8. Modularity
9. Future

19. Constructivism,
Constructionism and
Social Constructivism

23. The teaching paradox

25. Forums, forums, forums
& the humane interface

26. CC-licensed photo by furryscaly

27. Yochai Benkler: „Technology creates
feasibility spaces for social practice. Some
things become easier and cheaper, others
become harder and more expensive to do or
prevent under different technological
conditions.“
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YochaiBenklerJI6.jpg

28. Course Facilitator:
This is by far the best online
discussion we've had, in terms of
participants responding to eachother.
I think the most likely explanation is
the overall appearance of the Moodle
system (the Teletop facility wasn't
that different, but somehow it didn't
seem to encourage responses).

29. 0. Philosophy
1. Leadership
2. License
3. Community
4. Adaptability
5. Accessibility and diversity
6. Support
7. Transparency
8. Modularity
9. Future

30. GNU General Public License
Version 2

33. Richard Stallman
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrys/5592200

37. Accessibility is a
measure of civilisation

39. How do people who cannot
see „view“ a web page?

42. Malaria, perfect skin &
proprietary software – a story
about languages

46. http://www.nasaimages.org

47. Internet users per country:
Worldmapper
http://www.worldmapper.org

48. 0. Philosophy
1. Leadership
2. License
3. Community
4. Adaptability
5. Accessibility and diversity
6. Support
7. Transparency
8. Modularity
9. Future

49. We'll get to that...

50. On to the practical

51. Please fill in a
little questionnaire

52. What should you do with
Moodle?

53. First of all:
a service to your students

54. Notice board

56. Missed a lecture?

58. Course outline/syllabus

60. Capturing as you go along

62. First steps on the
pedagogical ladder

64. Death to forums for
„general use“
they should be called „forums for general non-use“

66. Forums are the most powerful
functionality from a
pedagogical perspective

67. They require design

69. About 10-15 minutes
of activity...

72. Don't forget:
It can be a classroom
teaching tool

73. Forums can enlarge the
classroom, by pulling
the outside in

74. Get an expert (don't forget
her profile picture) and let her
participate in the online
discussion: independent of
time and place.

75. Quick way to get to
know your students

78. Back to our questionnaire

79. The results...

80. Wouldn't it have been nice?

83. A Free classroom
voting machine/response system

85. Let's talk about assignments

86. Hands up: who lets students
hand in work using email?

87. Not allowed anymore!
Notice that I am not even talking about handing it in on paper...

88. A couple of problems:

89. Who is
lover14_XXX@hotmail.com?

90. What assignment is being
handed in exactly?

91. You: „You haven't handed in
your assignment“
They: „Yes I did, I sent it to
your email address!“
You: „I didn't get it“
They: „I did sent it“

92. Who hasn't submitted
their assignment?

93. Keeping track of multiple
submissions and grades

96. The age of the embed

97. Youtube – videos
Slideshare – slides (with audio)
Scribd – documents/texts
Teachertube – educational videos
TED – worldchanging videos?

99. The magic word is: embed
A demo...

100. Open Educational Resources
(OER)

102. Collaborative data gathering

103. The magic of RSS

104. RSS?

107. Email newsletter 2.0
(no unsubscribe)

108. Two parts to it:
server / client
creation / reading

109. Websites create RSS feeds:
items in reverse
chronological order

110. Feedreaders (there are many)
pick up the feeds
and display them

111. Moodle does both...

112. Forums and other modules
can create feeds

113. Fresh course content with
the remote RSS block
again enlarging the classroom

115. Creative use of Delicious
a social bookmarking site

117. Create a tag
for your course
e.g. iss_4329_0899

118. Students use the tag to tag
pages that they find
interesting

119. Moodle shows these pages
in the external RSS block

120. Demo?

121. Other collaborative
data gathering...

122. Glossary
Wiki
Database module
(I have so much more to say)

123. Please experiment with
letting students blog

124. Why limit the reflective
writing to the student-teacher
interaction?

125. Let students find a
public voice

126. The technology is there

128. ISS is doing a good job...

129. But you should push for more!

130. 1. Every student a laptop
(a requirement like a book)

131. 2. Wifi throughout the building
(and don't forget the power outlets!)

132. Invitation: please be in touch!
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/hansdezwart
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