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Abstract
Moodle for Teachers (M4T) 2013 EVO online workshop will take place on a Moodle website called Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL). 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 class practice sections as teachers. The participants will develop a lesson or course on Moodle.
The workshop will include both asynchronous (not dependent on time) and synchronous (time dependent) learning environments. The asynchronous will be conducted on the Moodle and the synchronous learning environment will be conducted on WizIQ (free premium accounts for educators) in the Moodle. Participants will watch tutorials, post to the discussion forums, and practice Moodle tools with the roles of a student and teacher.
Goal
The goal of the M4T EVO 2013 course is to help educators ensure the quality of online learning through systematic instructional design of online and blended online courses (BOL) and instructor training on online pedagogies.
Description
This intensive five-week workshop is designed to engage the participants in theoretical and practical aspects of online learning and teaching with a Learning Management System (LMS) called Moodle. Participants or Moodlers as they are called will be introduced to the Moodle philosophy and course development tools. By successfully completing the program, participants will have acquired the knowledge and skills needed to create basic Moodle resources and activities for blended online learning (BOL) or blended learning (BL) courses. As online learners, participants will understand online learning from the student's perspective so they can prepare their future courses with the learner in mind.
Workload & Format
M4T EVO 2013 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. In addition, teacher will have access to the admin settings for courses and for user enrolments.
Participants will be actively involved in the course. The tasks involved creating video tutorials. Participants will learn to use screensharing (jing, screen-o-matic, present me, screenr) and authoring tools (Youtube, Vimeo, Bliptv, Vocaroo)
Screensharing tools for tutorials.
Workshop Layout
This 5 week facilitated workshop will cover the settings for the following:
Resources:
Activities:
- Discussion Forums
- Comment
- Choice
- Glossary
- Quiz
- Survey
- Wiki
- WizIQ Class
- Database
- Workshop
Blocks:
Features without admin rights.
Teacher Administrator Settings:
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Courses
- Users (enrollment)
Expected Learning Outcomes
By the end of the workshop learners should be able to:
- Update course settings
- Enrol users
- Create and edit discussion forums
- Create and edit glossaries
Target Audience
Teachers in the K-12, higher education, private and/or public sectors
Skill level: familiarity in using the keyboard and/or mouse/keypad
Optimal size of the audience: unlimited
Interest Section Sponsors
TESOL CALL IS
Syllabus
Available on Google Docs Drive
Weekly Outline
Develop a working knowledge of Moodle as a learning management system for fully online and blended learning environments (a combination of face-to-face and online learning)
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Learn about and apply Moodle features such as profile, navigation, browsers and settings, participants, discussion forums, assignment upload, chat, wiki, and blog.
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Create content using Moodle activities and resources.
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Work collaboratively with emphasis on teamwork, collaboration, communication, sharing, activities, and critical reflection.
Week 1: INTRODUCTION & ORIENTATION (JANUARY 12-20)
Week 2: RESOURCES (JANUARY 21-27)
Week 3: ACTIVITIES (JANUARY 28 - FEBRUARY 3)
- Discussion Forums
- Comment
- Choice
- Glossary
- Quiz
- Survey
- Wiki
- WizIQ Class
- Database
- Workshop
Week 4: BLOCKS & TEACHER SETTINGS (FEBRUARY 4-10)
Blocks are features without admin rights.
Teacher Administrator Settings:
- Courses
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Users (enrollment)
Week 5: BLOCKS & TEACHER SETTINGS (FEBRUARY 4-10)
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Share presentations.
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Reflect on the workshop
Week 5 Section 6: TEACHER PERMISSION (FEBRUARY 11-17)
Live Online Classes (webinars) will be held on Saturdays at 4 GMT/UTC (11 AM EST) in the M4T EVO 2013 course area for 60 minutes. Recordings will be available in the course area.
Scheduled Live Meetings
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>>>Sign up for the session starts on Jan 7th, 2013 at http://www.wiziq.com/course/9160-moodle-for-teachers-m4t-tesol-call-is-evo2013
The action starts on Jan 14, 2013.
Moderators
Dr. Nellie Deutsch is currently the faculty of the postgraduate programs at Atlantic University where she also designs and facilitates Moodle courses for faculty professional development. Nellie is the founder of Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL), an online informal network that provides free professional development workshops for educators around the world. Dr. Deutsch has presented on technology enhanced learning and educational leadership at conferences in the United States and virtually around the world. She has been integrating technology (computer assisted language learning or CALL) into her EFL classes since the mid 90s. She earned her doctorate in education and educational leadership with a specialization in curriculum and instruction from the University of Phoenix. Her dissertation research (available on ProQuest, Amazon) focused on instructor experiences with integrating technology in blended learning contexts in higher education around the world. Dr. Deutsch is internationally known as a transformative leader, community builder, an expert in educational technology, leader in providing online professional development courses, and mentor for educators worldwide.
Ludmila Smirnova, Ph.D., is Professor of Education at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y., where for the past 11 years she has taught courses in Curricular Planning, Methods of Teaching and Teaching with Technology. She has become increasingly recognized for her leadership in the application of emerging Internet technologies to instruction. Ludmila leads numerous workshops on the application of Smart Technologies (Smart Board Certified Trainer) and Web 2.0 tools in college and primary/secondary classrooms. Prior to this, she was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University (Russia), where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages training teachers of English, German and French. She taught English in a school and University settings and also at the Center of the Intensive Language Learning back in Russia. She taught Russian in the Netherlands (1992) and in the U.S. in 1998, 2000. During her 25-year career in Russia, Ludmila was known for her reintroduction of Montessori education in southern Russia and the design of innovative themed “charter” schools. Her prolific publications include books, chapters, papers and conference presentations world-wide. She is a partner, co-designer and co-facilitator of the Moodle for Teachers workshops at IT4ALL Integrating Technologies for Long Life Learning.
Communication Media Used
Moodle, WiziQ Webinars, Youtube
Screensharing tools for tutorials:
The Electronic Village Online is a project of TESOL's CALL Interest Section
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