Transcript Moodle in the Primary School

Moodle in the Primary School
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Why would I? – pupil benefits
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Caters for varied learning styles.
Provides opportunity for extension.
Provides opportunity for revision.
‘Digital Natives’ knowledge is used.
Children/young people involved in social
networking; collaboration and communication.
Moodle appeals to these functions.
– Gives learners a sense of ‘ownership’… their
class Moodle, their content, their personalized
space.
– Offers flexibility and 24/7 access.
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Why would I? – teacher benefits
– Provides a vehicle for embedding ICT
across the curriculum.
– Reduction in workload (long term)
– Features and functionality provide tools
for teaching.
– Motivation – especially boys?
– WON’T teach the class though!
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Parents and governors
• Supports home/school links
• Gateway for information and
communication
• BUT be wary of what access rights you
give…
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Children have embraced the "C" words to
build active communities of learners, to
swap and exchange insights, to
collaborate, communicate, create and
challenge.
Prof Stephen Heppell,
EducationGuardian September 2006
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Customising Moodle
• ‘Blank’ template to start
• RSS
• You can change:
– Header image
– Graphics
– Colours
– Icons
– Text size
– Number of blocks
For whole site or individual courses.
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Possible activities and resources
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Assignment
Chat
Choice
Database
Forum
Glossary
Hot Potatoes Quiz
Questionnaire
Quiz
SCORM
Wiki
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Text page
Web page
Link to file or website
Show directory (folder)
Labels
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Example courses
How do these activities fit into
courses?
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Rivers
Forces
Earth, Sun and moon
Victorians
Transport
Rigolo French
Questionnaire
Governor information
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What now?
• Building courses DOES take time
– Think of something you already teach that could be
enriched by using Moodle
– Choose one area/topic/issue to start
– Don’t necessarily put everything online in the topic:
have some offline work too where appropriate
– Attend twilight training courses
– Contact a Learning Consultant if you have a particular
project in mind: support is available
– Perhaps see if your local high school uses Moodle: many
collaborative projects are taking place
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Contacts
• Daniella Martin
[email protected]
• Damaris Revell
[email protected]
• Roger Lang
[email protected]
• Andrew Slaughter (technical)
01257 516384
• Alison Wilson (training)
[email protected]
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