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 | Choice ==> Select Authors | |
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Middle school literature / English teachers in Kent loved the Moodle Choice module. Presented to them as a way to increase student buy-in at the start of a project or unit, Choice also seemed to them a way to solve a challenge they'd faced: How to get kids to choose authors, no more than 2 kids per author (always in the past 15 kids would want the first author, or the one whose name they knew; and other authors would not be picked at all). Solution: Create a Choice -- Choose "Enable" under "Limit the number of responses allowed" -- give a bit of stem-text, such as "Please choose your author below" -- and type in author-names as answers, plus the number of responses you'll allow for each. Decide on vertical (long list) or horizontal results display; whether / when to show results; and if answers may be updated (can kids vote, then change their minds?). | ||
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 | Elementary Spelling Tests | |
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| Using Audacity (open source audio editing software) create small mp3 files with the spelling words for the week. Each audio file has someone saying the word, reading a sentence and then saying the word again. Upload the mp3 files into Moodle and then create a test bank in the quiz module, embedding an audio file into each question. You could even share your test bank with other Moodle users. Create spelling reviews or tests using the quiz module. Another option to this is to have older students create the audio files using the sentences that the younger students created. | ||
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| Gaining Consensus | |
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| We have used Moodle extensively with our district's Leadership Team. Since not all members attend every meeting, how do you truly get consensus around an idea? The "vote with dots" approach only works with people who are there. We have used the Choice feature in Moodle to have LT members "vote" on various things (new mission statement, etc.) so everyone is included. Superintendent's cabinet are the facilitators, so they can choose to see individual responses, or just the group aggregated as a whole. | ||
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| High School teachers using Moodle | |
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| History and Accountability | |
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Our computer technicians meet for their weekly one-hour technical meeting. I've given the opportunity to lead the group to our supervisor of network services, so he's building relationships with the group he needs to work closely with. As the their supervisor, I'm the one taking minutes of the meeting--which is REALLY cool, because I can ask for clarification for the minutes without obviously interjecting my ideas. We use a WIKI with a main table of contents page, then for each new meeting, we set up a new sub-wiki page (not a new activity, just a new page). Throughout the week, members add agenda items for the next meeting. When the meeting starts, I open up the wiki and take the notes real-time. The search feature is helpful, because you can type in "printer" and see all of the meetings we've talked about printers in. Definitely the coolest way I've found to keep agendas and minutes... | ||
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| Middle School Art and Technology | |
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This should be in a Middle School ART category probably but didn't see one. I teach art classes and will for the first time be teaching a trimester long computer class. I am a tech geek and have always included a lot of digital art in my classes. Come fall I will be using it for... *photoshop assignments with linked tutorials and a required jpg upload...this is my favorite application so I will have less document management to deal with over my past ways of 'collecting' these assignments. *quizzes I was using quiz-star but look forward to less account management with Moodle *glossary of terms and a wiki for art movements, artist and mediums... some will be ones I prepare and other will be ones kids research and add to the class moodle *webquest like assignments *rate that assignment... at the end of the trimester I always had them fill out a reflection where they share what assignments/projects they liked or didn't... now I can to surveys and do them right after an individual project and I don't have to tally up by hand... I used this data to adapt my projects for grade levels etc. *Reflections... after big projects or group ones, I would have them do a reflection worksheet.. I hope to do this on moodle as a journal. and I am sure my ideas will grow from here!
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| Moodle as a CMS | |
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| We give a variety of groups a Moodle site just so they can have a web presence. We currently have Moodle sites representing PTOs, Capital Projects, the Bainbridge Educational Support Team and the high school steering committee. We are looking at adding sites for a number of other groups throughout the district. | ||
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| Note Taking | |
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| I use a moodle forum to take notes when I am at conferences or meetings that have wireless access. These notes are then available to the users of my course to see what happened at any of my meetings. | ||
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| Parent/Teacher Conference Scheduling | |
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| Teachers can use Moodle to schedule their parents for conferences. It is very easy to do. Just create a "Choice" activity with the available days and times as question choices. Set each option so that only 1 response is allowed and then open it up to parents. Be sure and set the format as a vertical view. When you are done just do an export to a spreadsheet and you have a nice list. Take it to the next level and have parents do a journal activity describing what they want to discuss at the conference. | ||
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