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MSP2 Tech Talk: Moodle for Middle School

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Time: August 5, 2009 from 2pm to 2:45pm
Location: Online via Elluminate
Website or Map: http://www.learncentral.org/n…
Event Type: online, presentation, discussion
Organized By: Mary Henton
Latest Activity: Aug 5, 2009

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Are you looking for a way to interact with your students online? Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. It's free, open source, and can be adapted to any learning environment. Create calendars, message boards, resource pages, wikis, surveys, tests, and more. Tom has used Moodle with his 5th-8th graders for the past 3 years to teach science and technology and will share his experiences with this e-learning platform.

Facilitator: Tom Jenkins

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Comment by Tom Jenkins on August 5, 2009 at 3:09pm: Thanks to all for coming today. Wow! What a large group!

We'll make sure that the presentation is up shortly. Sorry if I overwhelmed you. I figured that it would be better to have too much information rather than not enough.

Please feel free to post any questions that you may have and we'll do our best to answer them for you.

Thanks again.

Comment by Basilla Stevens on August 5, 2009 at 2:11pm: I am sorry but I can't get in. I tried several times.

Comment by JL Cribb on August 5, 2009 at 2:09pm: The link on my email is not working. Help

Comment by Tom Jenkins on August 4, 2009 at 4:52pm: Hi Susan. Sure can!

Comment by Susan Rynkiewicz on August 4, 2009 at 2:55pm: Hi Tom,

I am excited to learn about Moodles tomorrow. I am in the process of creating my own classroom web site. Could you discuss how to link a Moodle to our own websites? I am new to these processes. Thanks!

Comment by Tom Jenkins on August 2, 2009 at 10:12pm: Ronald,

Tech does help provide an outlet for those students that are "technoholics." In fact, Moodle can be set to allow them to set up a profile and even chat.

Comment by Tom Jenkins on August 2, 2009 at 10:08pm: Great. I should be able to help you with all of those things. Then, I'm sure that many of us in our community will help you if you should need some guidance. It really is an awesome tool.

Comment by Joe Yahna on August 2, 2009 at 8:40am: I'm looking forward to this. I am working with some other MS science teachers to try to set up a Moodle on which all of us can share our lessons and assessments, and our students can access everything there. It will serve the purpose of allowing us (teachers) to share materials and more easily collaborate. It will also serve as the online location where our students can go to access web based activities, copies of assignments, rubrics, etc. We are just starting to learn how this might work. Any tips you could provide would be appreciated!

Comment by Ronald Fischman on August 2, 2009 at 12:05am: Who uses tech in class to redirect disruptive texting, vidwatching and game playing? How does anyone else deal with these viruses?

Comment by Tom Jenkins on July 28, 2009 at 7:21pm: I too, encourage my students to use the library. I've noticed that several go to their friends houses to take advantage of Moodle. Either is fine because they are all set up with their own individual accounts.