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Moodle for Teachers and Teaching Online

Moodle for Teachers (M4T) EVO 2016 (M4TEVO16) online session will take place on a Moodle website called Moodle for Teachers (M4T). Participants will be able to participate in live online classes and view the recordings from the Moodle session area. The aim of the M4T workshop is to provide participants, who have never used Moodle or who would like to enrich their previous Moodle experiences, with the knowledge and skills to navigate a Moodle course, access resources, activities, and blocks from a student perspective and practice the same Moodle features in practice areas as teachers and managers of a Moodle course. The participants will develop a lesson in teams in a Moodle course of their own.

M4T EVO 2016 session requires participants to be active at least 10 hours a week on theoretical and practical aspects of online learning (individually and in teams). Participants will learn about resources, activities, and blocks as students and practice the role of a teacher in setting up resources and activities and in the role of a manager to set up blocks in a Moodle course. In addition, teacher will have access to the admin settings for courses and for user enrollments. Participants will learn to create tutorials and engage with students using Jing, screencast-o-matic, Movenote, Present me, SlideSpeech, Google drive) and authoring tools (Youtube, Vimeo).

Session Objectives

By the end of the workshop learners should be able to:

Manage & edit course settings
Manage enrollment methods and enroll users
Create and edit basic activities, resources, and use blocks
Create video tutorials
Collaborate and engage with peers
Create a course in a Moodle course area using the tools

Target audience

Teachers of any subject or age groups
Anyone interested in providing online training using Moodle

Syllabus

Weekly Content

Week 1 (Jan 10 - 17, 2016)

INTRODUCTION & ORIENTATION

In week 1, you will introduce yourself, follow the book task on how to navigate the course, and take part in a choice task.

Week 2 (Jan 18 - 24, 2016)

RESOURCES

In week 2, you will learn about and practice using Moodle resources with the role of a teacher of a course in the Teacher Practice Area (TPA). You will have teacher editing rights in the Teacher Practice Area, get screenshots of your findings, and create tutorials to demonstrate what you learned. You will share the screenshots and tutorials in the Resources on Moodle discussion forum for week 2.

Teacher Practice Area (TPA) is a Moodle course where participants get editing rights as teachers so that can practice using the resources and activities available in a Moodle course. Participants are automatically enrolled in the TPA and may go in and explore the features available in the practice area at any time.

Week 3 (Jan 25 - 31, 2016)

ACTIVITIES

In week 3, you will learn about and practice using Moodle activities with the role of a teacher of a course in the Teacher Practice Area (TPA). You will work as teachers with editing rights in the Teacher Practice Area, get screenshots of your findings, and create tutorials to demonstrate what you learned. You will share the screenshots and tutorials in the Activities on Moodle discussion forum for week 3.

Week 4 (Feb 1 - 7, 2016)

BLOCKS

In week 4, you will learn about and practice using Moodle blocks with the role of a manager of a course in the Manager Practice Area (MPA). You will work as managers in the Manager Practice Area, get screenshots of your findings, and create tutorials to demonstrate what you learned. You will share the tutorials in the discussion forum for week 4.

Go to the Manager Practice Area (MPA) to learn about Blocks in Moodle courses. You need to have the role of the manager of a Moodle course to be able to access the blocks menu.

Week 5 (Feb 8-14, 2016)

Moodle Course Lessons (MCL)

In week 5, you will be grouped into teams of 4 so you can practice as managers of your own course and create a lesson in the course. Access the group discussion forum to view your group and password to access your Moodle course lesson course.

SHOWCASE COURSE

Participants will create lessons in a Moodle course. They will be given the role of a manager in the course. Start thinking of a lesson or course you'd like to develop and decide whether you wish to work individually or in a team.

Session Communication Tools

Moodle, BigBlueButton, WizIQ, Jing, screencast-o-matic, Movenote, Present me, SlideSpeech, Google drive, Youtube, Vimeo

Sponsors

Join this session

The action starts on Jan 10, 2016.

To join this group:

From January 3rd :

Go to: http://moodle4teachers.org/course/view.php?id=88
Sign up for an account.
Confirm your email.
Enrol in M4TEVO16

Moderators

Deutsch, Nellie	nellie.muller.deutsch@gmail.com	Canada	Dr. Nellie Deutsch (Ed.D) is a Canadian educational leadership, technology & curriculum & instructional design consultant. She trains teachers & admin to teach & manage Moodle courses & sites, coaches academic & doctoral students, mentors educators, conducts research, writes, & speaks at conferences. She is a community builder, instructional designer & facilitator of fully online & blended learning programs active learning presentation tools that focus on teaching as a way to learn. Please read on for further information.
Dixon, Susan	shawnsnana@gmail.com	USA
Hodgers, Tom	tomhogers@gmail.com	Venezuela
Torresi, Nives	nivesdatsun1969@gmail.com	Italy
Boneham, Brian	steggy2014@gmail.com	UK
Ostankowicz, Halina	ostankowicz@gmail.com, halina.bazan@pwr.edu.pl	Poland	Senior Lecturer at Wroclaw University of Technology, Foreign Languages Department and Department of Polish for Foreigners, since 1976 to 2014. Education - University of Wroclaw Poland, Philology, Linguistics Jul 1974. I am a teacher from Poland. I teach Polish as a foreign language and English. I am a teacher from Poland. I teach Polish as a foreign language and English. I also conduct lectures in English on Polish History and Culture for students from all over the world Now I am learning how to teach using new technologies, and I am looking for some inspiration. I also conduct lectures in English on Polish History and Culture for students from all over the world Now I am learning how to teach using new technologies, and I am looking for some inspiration.