Moodling+to+the+Max+-+Teaching+with+Interactive+Activities+using+Moodle

Presenter: ** Tim Cooper, ** 7-12 Technology Integrator School: ** [|Friends Seminary]

Description: ** In this workshop we will explore some of the interactive features of Moodle, an open source online course companion, including blogs, questionnaires, quizzes, games, multimedia, glossaries and forums. In the first part, we will see some examples created by teachers; in the second part, we will use Moodle and play around with these activities as users and in the last part, we'll have q and a.

Thanks for attending!!! To follow up and some conversations, I am posting some info below (I will post a bit each day for the next few days). Please feel free to add any resources, opinions or experiences below.

[|www.Moodle.org] - this is the Moodle project homesites with downloadable versions of Moodle to install on your server, mods/blocks/filters to expand a Moodle installation, documentation for users, teachers, and Moodle admins. [|Moodlerooms] -
 * Moodle Service Providers:**

From Tim = **Activities -**  =
 * Recommended Activities/Blocks/Filters - please put the name, a description and your opinion:**

**Blogs**
 * Course Blogs** - lets you make a blog specifically for one course. Setting choices are community blog (class keeps one blog), students and teacher blogs read by all, or individual students blogs accessible by teacher and individual students.
 * OUBlog** - Another blog option. it is a plain vanilla community blog with comments for a course. OU is for Open University, the developer


 * Wikis**
 * Nwiki** is good but it is a complicated update. It replaces the default wiki in Moodle.
 * OUWiki** is a nice wiki that is easy to setup and install.

Covell Suite -
 * Language Stuff**
 * Nanogong** - three parts - 1. an addition to your HTML editor that lets you insert audio as embedded (it shows up as a little player where you can click/play/ff/rev). Coolest part. 2. Nanogong stuff (player that adds the ability to slow down and spped up speech on playback along with easy saving to disk). 3. Nanogong Activity - moodle activity similar to assignment except with audio capability. It works pretty well on PC's and okay on Macs. With macs you must keep the number of files on a page small.

**Game** - let's you create crosswords, acrostics, hangman and other games from content in a quiz or a glossary.
 * Fun Stuff**


 * Moodle resources - books, websites, etc.**