Posts Tagged ‘training’
Plan to use Moodle? Training may be required
Depending on what state or country you live in you may now have a hurdle if you're interested in implementing/using Moodle in your classroom: required professional development and training. At least one state in the US now have a minimum training requirement for any teacher who wants to "teach an online course in a public school, including a [...]
Tomorrow (8/31) Free Moodle for Teachers Orientation/Workshop via @WizIQ
Tomorrow at 4pm EST Nellie Deutsch is hosting a Moodle for Teachers session via WizIQ for new Moodlers or those interested in honing their current skills. According to the event page, M4T-O workshop is intended to provide people who have never used Moodle with the knowledge and skills to navigate a Moodle course and access resources and [...]
Back to School 2011: “Moodle Mondays” (regularly scheduled training sessions)
It's Back to School 2011! We'll be running back to school focused posts throughout the week of September 2nd, highlighting some good tips and suggestions for making the most out of your Moodle usage in 2011-2012. One suggestion I made to all teachers who are going it alone or just starting to help other teachers get up and running on [...]
Introduction to Teaching with Moodle (4 week online course in October for as low as $55)
@ONEforTraining is a professional development arm of the California Community Colleges and offers low-cost teacher training via the web. This upcoming course has been offered before by @One and covers the basics of using Moodle in the classroom. For as low as $55 dollars for the 4 week session it's a great deal (non CA institutions are only [...]
60+ simple open courses created in Moodle
If you're interested in learning a new skill or want to check out how simple a Moodle course can be (when using/tapping open resources available elsewhere on the web) you should check out http://www.open-of-course.org/courses/. It's just a collection of simply created OER courses presented through Moodle. Adding a file upload, discussion [...]
Free Moodlebites Moodle tutorial course posted to the MOOCH
Following the RSS feed from the MOOCH is pretty interesting, it's a great way to see new Moodle sites and to stay up to date on what courses are available for both download and enrollment. The most recent course that caught my eye is the Moodlebites (official Moodle training partner) "Understanding Moodle Free Introduction" which is available [...]
Excellent, In Depth Introduction to Moodle presentation by @2techU
Todd Diakow (@2techU | gET IT consulting blog), a classroom teacher and IT Integration Specialist in Alberta Canada created this great introduction to Moodle Prezi. The presentation is well organized into 4 parts, 1. Where to get help, 2. Best Practices, 3. Features, and 4. Manipulation. Go straight to the Prezi: [...]
Teacher Documentation at Moodle Docs: a 1st destination for new Moodlers
There's a great resource (recently revised) at Moodle.org's docs which is titled "teacher documentation" but really is a great primer that any new-to-Moodle teacher should be exposed to (immediately). The resource highlights the underpinning of Moodle's principles and structure then provides links to great introduction videos, resources, demos [...]
EVENT: @howtomoodle Moodle Group Nov 16th in London
Thank you to Catherine Dhanjal for sharing this UK event with us: Hope those of you in the UK area will be able to join the next HowToMoodle Moodle Group on Tuesday 16 November 2010 from 5pm to 8pm in central London. This event features speakers from Pickfords on why the removal company chose Moodle and how they are using it for internal [...]
Moodle’s Do’s and Do Not’s docs (more tips via Moodle.org)
Surfing the Moodle.org site the other day I found the home of the Moodle Do's and Do Not's which make up the classy poster I took a crack and recreating and releasing. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teaching_Do's http://docs.moodle.org/en/Teaching_Don'ts The bullets from the poster are lifted directly from that resource (and it's great to know [...]
