I am presenting “Moving to Moodle 2.x” at the Mountain Moot at Carroll College. This presentation focuses on my experience migrating our Helena School District Moodle server from 1.9 to 2.1. I also demonstrate some ways you can use some of the Activities modules easily in your classroom. Let me know if you have questions….
Mountain Moot 2012 – Moving to 2.x
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What are your thoughts at this point on having instructors ‘lock up’ curriculum inside a password protected Moodle, versus posting most of it on an open wiki and then having quizzes / assignment turn-in via the LMS?
Hi Wes… Mike might have a different answer but here is where I am at about this. I think each use case may require a different response. A lot of folks using Moodle or an LMS are not creating content, they are simply repurposing content and delivering it to a class. In that case, especially if you have novice or younger learners, it makes sense to keep everything in an LMS for the simplicity of the learner. If you have some content on X open website and quiz/test functionality on Y website, that can get confusing for some learners. I think that probably best describe Mike’s class (middle school Health).
I am teaching the University of Montana’s ed tech class this summer and I will be taking a different tact. I have a class wiki (education370.wikispaces.com), blog (education370.com), and access to UM’s Moodle. I will use Moodle ONLY for turning in assignments and nothing else. BUT, I have a mission here… I want to share my take on this class with others and I see this as an opportunity to show others that I can teach and plan this class, hoping that someone else will ask me to do it.
Well the reality in my district right now is that we have many administrators worried about HIPA and FERPA. The answer has been use Moodle, but I am making headway in convincing more public sharing. Baby steps