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What is Moodle?
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.
What is Moodle (video)
"Moodle Buzz"
- Good practice resource - Making the most of information and communication technology: South Devon College from OFSTED
Good practice resource - Making the most of information and communication technology: South Devon College from OFSTED - 10 days ago
- South Orange-Maplewood Seventh Graders Enhance Lessons Through Technology from Christy Potter Kass, TheAlternativePress.com
South Orange-Maplewood Seventh Graders Enhance Lessons Through Technology from Christy Potter Kass, TheAlternativePress.com - 3 weeks ago
- Norwayne District Students log in to online texts from Amanda Rolik, The-Daily-Record.com
Norwayne District Students log in to online texts from Amanda Rolik, The-Daily-Record.com - 3 weeks ago
- Tablets in Charlottesville schools prove successful from Megan E Davis, Daily Progress
Tablets in Charlottesville schools prove successful from Megan E Davis, Daily Progress - 3 weeks ago
- Communication, teaching tools part of Moodle’s package from Hannah Delacourt, The Pendulum
Communication, teaching tools part of Moodle’s package from Hannah Delacourt, The Pendulum - 2 months ago
Moodle Video Presentation
Moodle Article Snippets
Building Educational Web Sites with Moodle
Free tool lets teachers build sites, interact with students
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself," a Chinese proverb says. The same can be said about technology at schools and in the classroom. If used properly, technology merely opens the door.
Technologies like Moodle, an Open Source course management system ( CMS), allow even non-technical teachers to set up and maintain a Web site where students can log in, access course information, interact, share, and teach others.
As a middle school teacher, I don't use Moodle because it saves me time and paperwork; I use it because it helps my students learn more cooperatively and independently. Moodle also lets me learn from and work more directly with my most neglected and gifted students (who are often one and the same).
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Got Moodle?
by Susan Brooks-Young
The free, open source program enjoys great appeal among K-12 teachers, as it allows them to get the upper hand on course management and assessment.
UNTIL RECENTLY, teachers in Bainbridge Island School District in Puget Sound, a mere half-hour ferry ride from Seattle, were handling classroom management tasks the old-fashioned way. Taking attendance, grading, delivering and receiving homework assignments-all were done with paper and pencil. Randy Orwin, the district's director of technology, figured there had to be a better system for recordkeeping, so he decided to go out and find it.
Moodle in the Classroom (video)
Great Moodle Resources
- In the Mood for Moodle? Download the PDF document
What is Moodle? Maybe you have heard of Moodle by now. But just what is it? Jeff Stanford looks at what Moodle is, how you can use it and how to go about setting it up. - Moodle: Download the Open Source software
Moodle is Free, Open Source software. Choose from the official Moodle packages to install Moodle on your own server. Please help us promote education and develop Moodle further by donating to the Moodle project. Thank you. - Open Source Course Management Systems Get a Shot at Tenure | OStatic
Read about trends, technologies and best practices covered by experienced Giga Omni Media editors and writers. Participate in daily blog discusions and post your thoughts and opinions. - sloodle - Virtual Environment Learning System
Sloodle is an Open Source GNU-GPL project which integrates multi-user virtual environments such as Second Life® with learning-management systems (VLEs) such as Moodle® and helps the community of educators in virtual worlds of learning.
E-Learning and Educational Technology News and Resources
- Should You Pursue Your Master’s in Criminal Justice Online?
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- Is Online Schooling Right For You?
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- 5 Useful Android Apps For Students
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Links From the WWW
- Social constructionism
Articles and Information...Social constructionism is a school of thought introduced into sociology by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann with their 1966 book on "The Social Construction of Reality". - Moodle and Social Constructionism:
Looking for the Individual in the Community | Academic Commons
Great Reads on Moodle
 | Using Moodle is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning. Updated for the latest version, this new edition explains exactly how Moodle works by offering plenty of examples, screenshots and best practices for its many features and plug-in modules. Moodle gives teachers and trainers a powerful set of web-based tools for a flexible array of activities, including assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and workshops. This book is not just a how-to manual. Every chapter includes suggestions and case studies for using Moodle effectively. By itself, Moodle won't make your course better. Only by applying effective educational practices can you truly leverage its power. With this book, you will: Get a complete overview CMS in general and Moodle in particular. Review Moodle's basic interface and learn to start a course. Learn to add Moodle tools to your course, and how different tools allow you to give quizzes and assignments, write journals, create pathed lessons, collaboratively develop documents, and record student grades. Discover some of the creative ways teachers have used Moodle. There are plenty of ideas for effectively using each tool. Effectively manage your Moodle course, such as adding and removing users, and creating user groups. Learn to use Moodle's built-in survey functions for assessing your class. Find out how to administer an entire Moodle site. A system administrator usually handles these functions, but if you're on your own, there's a lot of power behind the curtain. Using Moodle is both a guide anda reference manual for this incredibly powerful and flexible CMS. Authored by the Moodle community, this authoritative book also exposes little known but powerful hacks for more technically savvy users, and includes coverage of blogs, RSS, databases, and more. For anyone who is using, or thinking of using, this CMS, Using Moodle is required reading. Amazon Price: $21.99 List Price: $39.99 |
 | Moodle is a free, open-source Learning Management System (LMS). Moodle is designed to help educators and trainers create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. It is the world's most popular online learning system. It has many modules, which you can use to make your course unique and create an environment where your students will get maximum benefit.
* Applying your teaching techniques through Moodle
* Creative uses for Moodle's standard features
* Workarounds, providing alternative solutions
* Abundantly illustrated with screenshots of the solutions you'll build
* When and how to apply the different learning solutions
* Especially good for university and professional teachers
This book has a friendly approach and even experienced trainers will benefit a lot from it. It uses copious screenshots, for you to get a feel of the course site even while you are learning by building the solutions.
If you are a teacher or a corporate trainer with a desire to design effective and innovative Moodle courses, then this book is your best choice. The book assumes that you have a basic understanding of Moodle, but it does not need any programming knowledge. It's all about teaching and not programming. Amazon Price: $31.05 List Price: $39.99 |
 | Review
"... A major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge." -- American Sociological Review. -- Review Amazon Price: $7.50 List Price: $15.95 |
Moodle Jobs Available and Jobs Wanted
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Moodle Training Blog News
- End of Year Conference
I was asked this week to provide a short session on using our Moodle vle for the for our end of year Teaching and Learning Conference here at the College.
- Flipping the class with Ed Ted
Not so much about Moodle in this blog post, but of equal importance materials that you can use as part of your course.
- eILT survey
Are your staff taking full advantages of resources?
- RSC Moodle Roundtable
I went along to an RSC Moodle Forum round table in London yesterday that posed the question ‘What makes for a good Moodle activity’.
- Moodle 2.0 Making the Leap at RSC
In common with a lot of colleges, universities and institutes running Moodle 1.
- Migrating Moodle
The last couple of weeks including the usual half term have certainly been busy given that we took the opportunity to move a Moodle vle from a Linux to Windows platform.
- Newsletter,feedback and eMaterials
One aspects of eLearning that I have been very keen to get established is a newsletter.
- eLearning Observations, Codeyear and Web Tools
As our teaching staff here begins to take advantage of the training and resources that we have in place for including, it has come to raise for me an important issue with regard to classroom observations.
