Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Community College and Adult Education Educators are invited to attend our Beginning Moodle Training for Educators workshop.

Saturday, July 18, 2009
9:00am - 3:30pm
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Training Room 279
University of California, San Diego

What is Moodle?
Moodle is an open source learning management system (LMS) used to augment traditional face-to-face courses and also deliver content in online courses. Moodle is a web-based, software package designed using sound pedagogical principles to help educators create effective online, constructivist, learning communities. Moodle is currently used by more than 1,000 teachers and thousands of students in San Diego area schools.

How does the use of Moodle benefit teaching and learning?
Moodle is designed around a professional learning community, it allows teachers to act as facilitators of learning and to provide a framework for face-to-face and online interaction that may take place both in and out of the classroom. Through this framework, the students and teachers will be able to experience collaborative online interaction where ideas can be shared and a consensus to understanding can be constructed in online activities, discussions, and interactions.

Moodle also provides teachers with a means to create differentiated learning opportunities for students, where online discussion and collaboration can go on apart from other groups as needed, thereby allowing for a more individualized approach to student learning.

Topics to be Covered
This course will teach you how to setup up your Moodle course as a static web site.

– Moodle Course Setup
We will begin to build your Moodle course by covering the following: Teacher login; Course Setup; Blocks; Moodle Tutorials

- Providing Resources for Students
Add content to your Moodle course through creating resources such as web pages, links to files and web sites, and organizing files into folders accessible in Moodle.

Moodle Course Hosting
After successful completion of a Moodle course, TeacherTECH will continue to host each participants Moodle Site.

Who Should Attend:
K-16 Teachers,and Administrators. Not only can Moodle be used in a classroom environment with students of all ages, but as a tool to build an online professional learning community at your school site, central office department, or with whomever you collaborate and/or support.

Professional Development credit is a available through UCSD Extension at a cost of $55.00 per unit. This is a once quarter-unit course.

Please join us for an exciting and informative series of hands-on workshop presented by Mike Senise, San Diego Unified School District.

Registration is $45.00 payable at the door. Space is limited. Please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space.

For information on other TeacherTECH workshops, please see
http:/education.sdsc.edu/teachertech