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Vienna International School 08.06.12Vienna International School 08.06.12

First just want to say

Who is this guy anyway?

US – Irish origins. Raised and educated, Boston, MA, USA

Educator, Student, Technologist with two decades of living, learning and teaching on four continents. 

A new member of the Vienna international School joining you in August, 2012.

Pre arrival enquiries…

Pre arrival enquiries…

Who is this guy anyway?

US – Irish origins. Raised and educated, Boston, MA, USA

Educator, Student, Technologist with two decades of living, learning and teaching on four continents. 

A new member of the Vienna international School joining you in August, 2012.

•What is Moodle?

•Why are we having Moodle?

•How will Moodle be advantageous for the Vienna International School Community?

Essential Questions:Essential Questions:

What is Moodle?What is Moodle?Moodle is an electronic learning system, also known as a Course Management System (CMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

What is Moodle?What is Moodle?

Moodle is an acronym. It stands for:

Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment.

What is Moodle?What is Moodle?Moodle is an interactive system built on the social constructivist concept that learning communities can acquire knowledge through interacting, collaborating, and sharing.

To broaden our students educational experience and offer them optimal opportunities for learning

Why are we having Moodle at Why are we having Moodle at VIS?VIS?

To enhance and augment existing best practices

Why are we having Moodle at VIS?Why are we having Moodle at VIS?

To empower learning and teaching in new and additional ways…

Why are we having Moodle at VIS?Why are we having Moodle at VIS?To further facilitate our ability to communicate, collaborate, and share as a Learning Community

"None of us are smarter than all of us“ –Sir Ken Robinson

Why are we having Moodle at VIS?Why are we having Moodle at VIS?To synergize and leverage the use and application

of our various ICT systems and tools

How may Moodle be advantageous to our VIS How may Moodle be advantageous to our VIS Community?Community?

• Can provide a “common ground” upon which all: educators, students, parents, support staff can meet, communicate and collaborate

•Can be used to further build and expand classroom community – “flattening or blending” models

•Facilitate student, educator, and parent interactivity and teamwork

• Support student development of independent and self -directed learning

•Can build legacy within the community –a collective knowledge bank

Why are we having Moodle at VIS?Why are we having Moodle at VIS?

How may Moodle be advantageous to the VIS Community?

And…And…

StudentsStudents

 

Technology is used by people in many different ways the emphasis is on Utility

How may Moodle be advantageous to the VIS Community?

VIS Educators VIS staff? Parents? Students?

What is Social Constructivism? What is Social Constructivism? Briefly...Briefly...

• People actively construct new knowledge as they interact with their environment.

• Everything you read, see, hear, feel, and touch is tested against your prior knowledge

• Knowledge is strengthened if you can use it successfully in your wider environment.

• You are not just a memory bank passively absorbing information, nor can knowledge be "transmitted" to you just by reading something or listening to someone.

• Learning is particularly effective when constructing something for others to experience

• Social Constructivism extends the above ideas into a social group constructing things for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings.

• More at http://docs.moodle.org/en/Philosophy

http://moodle.org/sites/

Moodle was designed to help foster online learning communities. It has an active development and support group (very important for open-source projects) and has users in over 150 countries.

Moodle was built following social constructionist pedagogy as a virtual learning environment.

150,000 registered users on moodle.org

moodle.org/stats/

Humboldt State Moodle has 12,288 courses and 42,121 users.

The Open University (OU) in the UK has converted their courses to MOODLE for their 250,000 students.

UCLA, UC-San Diego & Smith College are now using Moodle, and many are piloting it (Lafayette, Bennington...) SEE MY BLOG

Credits /Sources

• Ken RonkowitzKen Ronkowitz• Shelia Norton Shelia Norton