using moodle for projects

APAC CONVENTION 2009

USING MOODLE FOR PROJECTS

Mònica Castanyer i Mora Montse Paradeda i Camós



USING MOODLE FOR PROJECTS

• What’s Moodle?• Our Moodle.• Projects using Moodle.• How to create the projects.


What’s Moodle?

The result of a PhD Thesis by Martin Dougiamas

isis a a freefree

software packagesoftware package

for anyone to download, use, share and improve.for anyone to download, use, share and improve.

Open SourceOpen Source

What’s Moodle?


What’s Moodle?

Moodle

is used by…


Slide by Alja Sulcic

What’s Moodle?

Moodle is designed using pedagogical principles…


Imagine Moodle as a platform that comes with a great set of bricks.

Slide by Tomaz Lasic

On this platform, we can have different On this platform, we can have different foundations foundations (called (called coursescourses). ).

This is where we put our bricks on (This is where we put our bricks on (activities, resources, activities, resources, modules, plugins, blocks, filtersmodules, plugins, blocks, filters).).


We can arrange the bricks that fit in any way that We can arrange the bricks that fit in any way that suits our educational and/or business purpose. suits our educational and/or business purpose.


We decide We decide whowho gets gets inin and and doesdoes whatwhat in our courses in our courses

……and for that reason we and for that reason we have roles:have roles:

AdminAdmin can can do, see & edit do, see & edit anything on anything on the sitethe site

Teacher Teacher can do, can do, see & edit anything see & edit anything in their coursein their course StudentStudent can do, see & can do, see &

edit in course as edit in course as assigned by teacherassigned by teacher

GuestGuest can only can only look in to parts look in to parts allowedallowed

Permissions for Permissions for parentparent or any other or any other role can be specified...role can be specified...



What’s Moodle?

Moodle allows us :

to build collaborative learning.

to deliver and collect content to students .

to assess learning.

to have restricted access (only the learning community) and to give different roles to the members.


For further information on

http://www.moodle.org

http://www.slideshare.net/moodlefan

http://www.slideshare.net/ialja

What’s Moodle?

http://www.moodle.org/



http://www.slideshare.net/moodlefan

http://www.slideshare.net/ialja


Moodle @ Projects?

ICT

PROJECTS


Moodle @ Projects!!

motivating positive feedback

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portfolio

collaborative learning

restricted access

creativity

Our Moodle http://ftp.escolagem.cat/moodle

http://ftp.escolagem.cat/moodle


Our Moodle

Links to web pages

Youtube videos

Forums

Video projects

Choices


Weekly proverb

Canteen

Sports

Teachers room

RSS feed

Flickr

Students’ room

Meeting point

News


Our Projects

IRREGULAR VERBS

ST. GEORGE’S BOOK

VIDEOS (ROUTINES)

MONSTER’S ROUTINES

GUINNESS WORLD’S RECORDS


IRREGULAR VERBSGROUPS: 2/3 students.TASK: Work with ten irregular verbs.PHOTOS OR PICTURES: Draw or find pictures to illustrate the actions.TOOL USED: Windows movie maker.

BEFORE

Go-went-goneFly-flew –flownBite-bit-bittenCost-cost-costSee-saw-seenBet-bet-betEat-ate-eaten

Flashcards

Chants

Bingo

http://www.esl-library.com/index.cfm?pageid=82


IRREGULAR VERBSGROUPS: 2/3 students.TASK: Work with ten irregular verbs.PHOTOS OR PICTURES: Draw or find pictures to illustrate the actions

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IRREGULAR VERBS

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Before Moodle With Moodle


SAINT GEORGE’S BOOK

GROUPS: 2/3 students.TASK: Write two endings for each chapter of the legend.GRAMMAR: the past / conditionals.PHOTOS OR PICTURES: Draw or find pictures to illustrate the text.TOOL: Mixbook. BEFORE NOW


SAINT GEORGE’S BOOK

Before Moodle With Moodle collaborative learning

on paper / computer

one paperwork per group/ personal copy in the portfolio

new

deals with diversity

peer assessment

improvement through comparison

artistic skills needed

can be shown

time spent on the project


VIDEOS -ROUTINESGROUPS: 3/4 students.TASK: Record their own daily routines.GRAMMAR: Simple present (affirmative/negative) and time.TOOL: Video files.


VIDEOS -ROUTINES

Before Moodle With Moodle

Projects handed in different supports: CD-roms

DVD

CAMERAS

Many needed help to record the project to a DVD/CD-rom...

Students can easily learn to upload any type of file.

The projects can be seen at any time by any student.

The projects can be graded and commented by the teacher and sent to each student.


grading


MY MONSTER’S DAYGROUPS: 2 students.TASK: Write the routines of a monster or a fantasy character.GRAMMAR: Simple present (affirmative/negative) everyday actions.TOOL: Forum in Moodle.


MY MONSTER’S DAY

The forum is used to ask for more information about the other students’ projects.

The teacher gives positive feedback.


MY MONSTER’S DAY

The forum is used to ask for more information about the other students’ projects.

The teacher gives positive feedback.

Teachers can correct and edit the students’ work.

Students interact spontaneously.


GUINNESS WORLD RECORDGROUPS: Individual work.TASK: Invent a world record using one of the adjectives given.GRAMMAR: The superlative.TOOL: Open Office + Mixbook.

The man with the longest

nose

Guinness World Record


GUINNESS WORLD RECORD

We collect all the projects and we make an e-book per class.


How many times have you heard that kids are “digital natives” and adults are “digital immigrants” … and as digital immigrants, we will always “speak with an accent” -…

“Kids are natives in a place that most adults are immigrants” (Elizabeth Weil, adapted by Marc Prensky )


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Mònica Castanyer

Montse Paradeda


…and now, the long-awaited…


…coffee break !

Thanks ;-)

using moodle for projects

Education