Moodle Journal

APRIL 24, 2012

The intention originally was to visit classes and just see what was happening, but then you are likely to miss out on good practice elsewhere, and so in practice I settled on a combination of observation visits and short interviews. So we decided to put a survey together.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 28, 2011

The article pulls no punches, and this becomes very clear from an early statistic quote 'With countless studies showing success rates in online courses of only 50 per cent—as opposed to 70-to-75 percent for comparable face-to-face classes'.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 8, 2011

In the next slide we see a classro om circa 1900, teacher at the front of the class with chalk and blackboard, students in orderly rows equipped with chalk and chalkboards. Not much in the way of audience participation to that question as I recall, but no doubt everyone was having similar thoughts.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Producing materials that will be distributed through either a vle or similar e-learning delivery platform, immediately draws the question, should these be the same as documents I would hand out in class, well maybe, but maybe not. You may like to watch this little video on the rise of Comic Sans.

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Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Given that we certainly need to avoid the pitfalls of just dropping standard class handouts onto the vle and thinking that's fine; chances are if they are not read in class, they will not be reading these on-line, at least that's my experience.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 5, 2009

The idea was for them to see this as an out of class exercise that utilised both forums and chat sessions. As this was a first, I did only get partial success and today we got together in class and carried out exercise in a more formal environment.

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Moodle Journal

APRIL 29, 2010

Links to Wallwisher provide extended to parts of classes. Course: Level3 Networking Project: Use tiny chat discussions Anticipated outcome/benefits: Make use of web audio / visual real-time communication service in order to engage students in effective class learning activities beyond the normal table tabled delivery.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The students will access the LAMS sequence outside of class time, which I am hoping will introduce them to the potential of indepent learning, through online collaboration and perhaps the emegence of an online indentity.

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 21, 2013

Whether e-Learning is part of a blended or whole distance learning solution, it is all to often the case I find that resistance emerges to its implementation from a range of perceptions, that I can only describe as myths, some more common than others for instance:- Students will not enjoy the interaction that a class environment provides e-Learning (..)

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 7, 2013

First off was this ‘ Your must-have classroom toolkit’ from TES, where they have from contributions from over 130,000 teachers assembled a really impressive list of class management and planning resources, and by the way these are all free. So simply follow the links to.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 8, 2013

In the first round, using bound notes, I must confess that in my enthusiasm to get people on-board as quickly as possible the sessions lasted around two hours, much to long really and difficult to bolt into a curriculum delivery of 90 minute classes. features.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 1, 2011

I can certainly sympathise with this last point, as a similar shift in perspective exists between class hand-outs and vle eLearning materials, which is precisely why we are heading down the Wimba Create route at the moment, but that’s an on-going story so please stay in touch for that.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 17, 2013

Of course we have dedicated tracking systems in place, but I really wanted something a little more lightweight and so I have started experimenting with the Moodle Target feature that has become available as an Activity option.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

So I was encouraged to discover a net article recently entitled ‘ Technology makes a difference in student achievement’ from sourcenewspapers.com, where a teacher describes how she managed to improve here class outcomes from 81 percent with 100 percent, and attributes this to the use of iPads, an interesting though somewhat specialist approach however (..)

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Have you tried audio feedback for your own classes, if so then please feel free to comment and share your views. As far as sheer volume of feedback is concerned, an average word count for the audio files revealed a figure of 671, and for my typical font size this amounts to about 1.3

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Since I decided to begin making use of Facebook as a means of communicating with my students out of class, the post to response time has generally dropped in some cases from hours to minutes, clearly something I should tried before.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 17, 2011

My ambition here is to encourage everyone to begin designing materials in a form that is more inline with the concept of learning objects as opposed to complete topics or classes, and part one of the course will comprise an introduction to and examples of learning objects.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 9, 2009

We met today not because we had a class, but because they wanted advice in how to establish a self-group, brilliant I thought. Today I met with a group of my new Foundation Degree students who are just starting out in learning Software Design using C, not the best of places to be I must admit.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 16, 2009

With this in mind one of my principle targets will be to utilise LAMS as a means of presenting graded exercises beyond the class room. One of my insites of recent times has been the realisation, mainly from Moodle logs, that students do not seem to be engaging beyond college as much as they could.

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Moodle Journal

JULY 12, 2011

Last week was our official end of term and so classes are now over for the academic year, which opens the way for other activities such as staff training, and this morning I delivered the Introduction and Web 2.0 sessions for our Moodle vle.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 18, 2009

I have for some reason, that right now I am not completely sure why, avoided using Facebook with my classes. The article suggests that using Facebook, improves both engagement and retention, mmm.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2009

I was talking to one of my colleagues recently who, with some enthusiasm has embraced the idea of eLearning to such an extent that all of his students now arrive at class not with a notebook and pen, but a wireless enabled laptop!

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 30, 2007

So if you are free around that time and would like to come over for a short and small class and supply us with some feedback in another reality just click here and I will look forward to seeing you.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 17, 2006

It’s the presentation in class of these exercises that I have decided to make available as mp3’s. I have incorporated these as part of my level 4 groups work in Object Oriented Design. The course is delivered as a series of lectures accompanied by detailed course notes and assessed using a portfolio approach of exercises.

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 22, 2006

We are about to trial a mobile BlueTooth graphic pad in class and I feel tools like ThinkLink are going to come into their own. In use it’s an intuitive application, students drag and drop various symbols onto the main stage and then type text into them, which in turn gets over any legibility issues.

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Moodle Journal

MAY 15, 2008

The reason for my inclusion of this event in a blog on Moodle, is that if like myself you have come to feel that to become a vle, certainly in my own understanding of the term, requires more than just the copious posting of course notes onto the system, but the development of materials more consistent with an eLearning delivery platform than a class (..)

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Our adoption and increasing use of the Moodle vle has further allowed us to explore a variety of teaching methods, that facilitate our students the opportunity for personalisation, to extend their learning beyond the traditional physical boundaries and time constraints of class based lectures. A bit Just a tad more that 50.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 22, 2005

the user interface is first class (click on the image to show a full size version) and the big bonus is that because Ziepod streams, podcasts can be heard in real time. If you are a podcast subscriber, then think about downloading a free copy of Ziepod, its a Windows desktop aggregator, search and download application.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 9, 2006

This is not really LD, but does provide a first class visual tracking and progress system, which just goes to show that I am not exempt from accommodation by adaptation.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 14, 2005

I beginning to realise however that given he demands on staff time, the opportunities for class cover so that you can attend a morning or afternoons training during term time are limited and with that in mind, next week I am going to try the first distance learning version of my course.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 27, 2005

Its Ok to upload your class documents but that’s not in itself going to exploit the potential of a VLE with respect to addressing the issues of widening participation and extended classrooms. The thing for me now is to begin assessing the impact of content.

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 5, 2007

As its summer now and there are no classes, its given me time to start thinking about trying to see if I can extract anything at all meaningful from the exercise that I encouraged my year 1 level 3 students to carry out at the start of their course in September 06.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 10, 2005

Then when you next go in to Moodle, switch Editing On and the Add an activity… drop down has an Object option, just select it and follow the dialog, superb, worked first time, congratulations and thanks to Helen Foster on a first class addition to the Moodle suit.

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 13, 2012

The question arises however, if and indeed when learning activities such as these take place beyond the class, as for instance as part of an eLearning experience, how are they going to be captured by observers? I guess one ingredient of Codeyear that is missing in my own classes is the competitive aspect of point scoring.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 26, 2013

Just to follow up on my last blog where I proposed using a Questionnaire as a means of gaining some measure of session success from students, I took the opportunity to apply the idea in two separate classes this week and you can see the results from the screen shot. Closing on a somewhat lighter note, are you pod casting your classes?

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Moodle Journal

MAY 10, 2014

The next morning I get into class and one of my students informs me that the class have been running a Facebook account as a course discussion back channel since the start of the current academic year; so is this an example of Synchronicity I am wondering?

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 6, 2012

ePolicy time With the training now in place to support staff in moving components of programmes away from the traditional class approach and toward an eLearning mode as part of our standard course delivery.

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