creating and delivering online professional development using moodle
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Creating and Delivering Online Professional Development
using Moodle
This session is about …
• Training teachers to use technologies
• Why we went online
• The tools we used to build our courses
• How we learned to build better courses
• What we learned about training online
Or …
Once upon a time, there were lots of
teachers who wanted to learn how to use interactive whiteboards and Moodle so this is the story of how we trained them ….
Background
Background
• IWBs
• Coaching training model
• Advanced Practitioners (APs)
• Supportive, organic
• Needed to ‘fill gaps’ and acknowledge hard work
Background our teachers
Background Challenges
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Challenges we identified
• Fear• Jargon• Different learning styles• Remembering• Understanding relevance• IT skills in general• Using tools for a reason, not a gimmick• Time• Budget
Choosing an online platform
What is and why Moodle?
• Website
• Lots of tools
– Resources
– Activities
• Able to Personalise
• Flexible
Moodle was originally developed by Martin Dougiamas [in Australia] to help educators create online courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content, and is in continual evolution.
Our first online course
Smart Notebook Interactive Whiteboard Software
Build
Pilot and time activities
Feedback
We almost completely rebuilt it!
Course Design
• Key Starter Module – Suitable for summer induction + digital coursebooks
• Level One – Text, Images, + one choice from Toolbar 1, Lesson Activity
Toolkit
• Level Two– Choose 3 out of 4 modules: Toolbar 2, Video, Animation
and Linking, Using Internet and Web 2.0, Using Notebook in other applications
Teachers
Start when they choose
Work at their own pace
Group work, Sydney, London
Module Design
Module Design
Tools we used
Tools Quizzes
Orientation quizzes
Revision quizzes
Jargon busters!
Tools Printable Instructions
• Screen capture
• PDF creator
Tools ‘How to videos’
• Welcome message
• Background
• Staging
• Well done message at end
Tools Reflective Journal
“Opportunities for reflection, making judgements on your own experiences and realising your own shortcomings should be included. When learners use self-observation, self-judgement and self-checking they learn faster.”
EPIC white paper The Psychology of eLearning
Tools Reflective Journal
Tools Shared Task Building
Call - Share your Screen
Tools Shared Task Building
Shared folders on Dropbox
for large files, e.g. videos
Tools Feedback
• Journals
• Survey
• Activity report
Tools Feedback Activity Report
Tools Feedback: Activity Report
Feedback
Feedback
Favourites
Example Lessons
Portfolio Assignments and Quizzes
Attention by trainer online
F2F component
Our second online course
Learning from experience
Changes
Changes navigation, look and feel
Changes navigation, look and feel
Signposts
Changes instructions
Changes use of icons
Changes shared task building
Let’s Hear From Some Teachers!
Teachers in our two Boston Embassy schools
Where are you?
What’s next for us?
What’s next for us?
• Moodle training
• Team building of course templates
• ePortfolio
• Other journal options
• Moodle 2.0
Links• http://moodle.org/ • http://www.cutepdf.com/products/CutePDF/writer.asp• http://www.techsmith.com/jing/• http://smarttech.com/• http://www.techsmith.com/snagit/default.asp • http://www.synergy-learning.com/moodle/• http://www.textwall.co.uk • http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/home
Links
• http://www.surveymonkey.com/ • http://www.dropbox.com • http://penzu.com/• http://www.wordle.net/
