moodle newsletter oct - nov 2012

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ecial thanks to Veronica Semeraro from the IES Abroad Siena Center for submi tting these photos!

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Siena

Greatest Growth in Educational Technology Award

The IES Abroad Quito Center has won theaward for the Center that demonstratedhe Greatest Growth in the Use of

Educational Technology in 2011-2012.Access to and use of Moodle at the Quito

nteraction between faculty members andtudents, and between students and

Center sta.

The design and accessibility of the Quito

actor in encouraging students, facultymembers and sta to access Moodle,because the home page contains the keycomponents that all users in Quito need

and want to access.

The home page contains general, geographic, travel, historical, and social information about Ecuador andprovinces, with helpful information about travel in the region. Students can access links to partner universities a

student services. In addition to a strong home page, the courses in Moodle are rich in resources and content, awell organized by class session, week and/or topic.

engaging support from a local expert, who assisted in the design and accessibility of the Moodle site and other w

sites. The local expert also provided individualized tutoring for faculty members, students and sta, with a focus

best practices in using Moodle.

The Quito Center had full operational support from the Centers Moodle Administrator, Rene Bueno, and FacuChampion, Professor Evelyn Rodriguez. Timely support and training was also provided by the Regional EducatioTechnology Specialist (RETS), Martin Tessi from the Buenos Aires Center.

For receiving the Greatest Growth in Educational Technology award, the Quito Center will receive $5,000 USD toused on educational materials, and a dinner for faculty members to celebrate their achievement.

Congratulations to everyone at the IES Abroad Quito Center for your work on the Centers Moodle site!

IES Abroad Quito Moodle Home Page


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Moodle Tip of the Month...

Guides and tutorials for the Moodle modules and blocks featured in

monthly newsletter can be found on the MoodleLearn website:

https://moodlelearn.elearning.iesabroad.org

Use the following generic log-in: User ID - iesstudent

Password - Student1

To save a copy of your course, go to Administration > Backup. If you do

resources and activities, uncheck all of the boxes next to User Data.

Although automatic backups are made to all courses every weekend, it

is always best practice to keep an additional backup for yourself.

Featured Moodle Module - Book Module

The Book Module can be used to present information in a well-structured, user-friendly format. Its features allo

users to import individual web pages, making it useful for group work. For instance, each student in a course ca

create simple web pages, and the faculty member can in turn upload the pages to the book to create usefuinteresting resources for other students.

This module can be used to create a tour guide, a nutrition guide, a resource about local community organizationa historical summary, or many other books.

The Book Module is a resource that can be used to build onlinebooks chapter by chapter. The Book Module makes it easy to createmulti-page collections of resources in a book-like format inside aMoodle course. Previously created websites can be imported intothe Book Module, and books can be printed in their entirety or bychapter.

The Book Module allows you to have main chapters andsub-chapters. The Module itself is not interactive, but it is possible

to link to Choice activities, Forums, and other interactive modulesfrom within a book. A book can also include multimedia objectssuch as Flash movies.

For instructions for using the Moodle Book ModuleFaculty Resources.

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Default Enrollment for Moodle Courses

The Enrollments section of each Moodle course hasdefault settings that aid in placing students into the

courses from Atlas. It is imperative to leave thesesettings unchanged in order to ensure that allstudents have access to their courses.

n the course settings in the Enrollments section ofMoodle, the default role should be set to Student. Ifthis is changed to a role other than Student, thestudents in the class will not be enrolled into the

Moodle course from Atlas.

When students need to be enrolled into a course

from Atlas, the Course enrollable setting should be

Share and Publish Your Documents with Calamo

Calamo is a free document publishing platform that allows users to publish magazines, presentatio

and documents and to share them with other users. Video and audio content can be embedded in t

publications. Users can search the Calamo library for thousands of magazines and publications, w

content added daily, to embed into Moodle courses. Calamo is also iPad friendly.

n the example above, Trc Long V Tran from the IES Abroad Paris BIA Center used Calamo to embed

Abroad Student Handbook into the Paris BIA site. Students can turn the pages of the handbook, using t

zoom capabilities to read the content and to look at the illustrations and maps. Using the tools in the t

menu, students can search keywords, browse by chapter, and change to full-screen mode. To sign up fo

free Calamo account, visit http://www.calameo.com.

changed to Yes. After students are enrolled, the option should be reset to No to present anyone other than enrostudents from accessing the course.


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Creating Custom Google Maps

Google Maps makes it possible to create and share specialized maps: maps of restaurants, bike routes, housin

ocations, educational institutions, museums, and more.

To create a custom Google Map for a Moodle site, go to google.com, click on Maps, and sign in. Once signed in, cMy Places and then clickCreate Map.

description. Under the Privacy and sharing settings,select Unlisted so that the map can be shared onlywith those who have the maps URL. ClickSave inthe upper right corner to save these settings.

Use the Google search box to search an address toadd to the map. Click the location marker on themap to open the location window.

ClickSave to Map and select the appropriate

map in the drop-down list.

After saving the placemarker, click Viewmapthe map.

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To change the name of the location, click onthe location listed on the lower left of themap, make changes in the dialogue box thatappears on the map, and clickSave.
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Google Maps...(continued)

International Technology Terms!

In this months IES Abroad MoodleNewsletter, we take at look at how

technology terms are written in varioulanguages!

Spanish German

The technology term of the month is:

Home Page - This is the starting point or front page of a web site or

application. This page often contains a table of contents or other infor-

mation about the contents of the site or application and/or describes the

purpose of the site/application. The Moodle home page is sometimes

referred to as the front page. In Moodle, the front page contains

important information about the site, announcements, and links to other

parts of the site.

To Change Placemarker icons:

Click on the location listed on the left hand side of themap or click on the placemarker icon on the map. Inthe location window, click on the placemarker icon inthe upper right corner, and select a marker from theset of icons.

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When the Google Map is complete, the link or embecode can be copied from the Google Map to thMoodle course page.

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2012-2013 Faculty Awards

At the end of the 2012-13 academic year, IES Abroad will honor faculty who demonstrate excellent and innovatMoodle use with the following awards:

Educational Technology Leadership Travel Award

Criteria:courses.

Travel details: Each faculty leader will complete a three-day visit to another IES Abroad Center (usually in the saregion) to conduct seminars/training in the use of educational technology and to deliver a lecture on her or his aof academic expertise. The award includes a $1,000 USD grant and approved expenses.

Nomination Process: Faculty nominate themselves in MoodleLearn.

Selection Process: Nominations, feedback from Center Directors, and course evaluation data are reviewed by

Educational Technology Team in Chicago. Five (5) awards will be given.

These awards will be presented at the Annual Conference along with the student-nominated Instructor of the YAward, Excellence in Teaching Awards, and Long-Time Faculty Award, and the Center Director-nominated Facnnovation Award.

Regional Webinars by Moodle Faculty Award Winners

ES selected several awards to be given to faculty leaders who demonstrated the most creative use of Moodle to fosnteractivity. The most important feature of Moodle is the ability for students to interact with each other and with nstructor. The award is a $500 USD professional development grant to be used for software, books, materials, or registrat

at a professional seminar. Each of the following awardees is also conducting webinars for other Centers. More webinars wbe announced at a later date:

Birgit Glock, Berlin

Topic: Self-evaluation

Language of Presentation: English

Clickhere to view presentation in MoodleLearn site

Target audience: All faculty

Michael Berthet, Paris

Topic: Moodle: nouvelles interactions, nouvelle autonomie et

apprentissage des langues/cultures

Language of Presentation: French

Date & Time: Wednesday, December 19th at 10 a.m. (CET)

Target audience: French Language Faculty

Mara Mejas, Barcelona

Topic: Forum Usage for Interactivity Between Students & Instruct

Language of Presentation: Spanish

Date & Time: Given in early November

Target audience: Spanish Language Faculty

Ann Ferster, Freiburg

Topic: Repetition, Discussion, Correction a Field

Report from the Moodle Forum

Language of Presentation: German

Date & Time: December 14 at 11:00 a.m. (CET)

Target audience: All Faculty

If you would like to receive an invitation to one of these webinars and have not, please contact Ellen Keating at

[email protected] .
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