Remote presentation to the Consortium for the Liberal Education of Artists. Discusses how to integrate Web 2.0 social collaboration tools into Moodle, an open-source learning management system. Argues for continued role of LMS as a home base from which to use Web 2.0 tools.

1. Integrating Web 2.0 Social
Collaboration Tools into Moodle,
an Open-source Learning
Management System
Keith Landa
CLEA – 10 April 2009
Proliferation of web communities How to make sense of it all?
new networks, new functions - the LMS as ‘home’
new approaches to
teaching/learning

2. The new face of education (?)
‘Community of learning’ replacing the old industrial model of education?

3. CMS -> LMS
Moodle: open-source LMS/VLE, by
academics, for academics (http://moodle.org)
A community project
Moodle @ Purchase
Focus on pedagogy, student learning activities
Flexible, open architecture
No licensing costs

5. Moodle add-ons
Community developed activities, blocks,
etc
Extend the base functionality
Modules and plug-ins repository
Podcasting, SLOODLE, photo galleries,
YouTube/Hulu videos, etc

6. Google maps
mashups

7. Moodle Map activity
Community add-on
Creates Google or OpenStreetMaps
maps
Search addresses or plot
latitude/longitude
Instructor generated maps
Student generated maps
Plotting user profiles

10. VoiceThread
Sequence of media/documents
Multiple commenting formats
Personal vs. community commenting
VoiceThread plug-in to embed
their media into Moodle courses

11. RSS feeds
‘Universal glue’ for combining Web 2.0
apps
Moodle accepts and produces RSS
RSS import into Moodle: blog postings,
Flickr feeds, news sites, podcasts, tweets,
etc
Moodle RSS exports: forum postings,
podcasts

12. Diigo – social bookmarking
Social bookmarking in
plain English
Diigo educator
account
Create
classrooms
Add students
Tag sites
RSS feed into
Moodle

13. Recap
“Wild west”
New opportunities
Bewildering possibilities
Easy to get lost
Need for an anchor to tie the tools
together
Continued role for a (flexible) LMS