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

Saturday, July 25, 2009
9:00am - 3:30pm
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Training Room 279
University of California, San Diego

Workshop Overview
Participants should be familiar with the basics of Moodle, including how to add activities and files, and how to navigate a Moodle course. This course will teach you strategies on how to implement online collaboration and interaction in Moodle. Covered in this course will be glossaries and online assignments, online discussion and collaboration, data driven decision making, construction of online self-graded quizzes and collection of data to help drive your instruction.

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.

Course Outline:
This course will teach you strategies and the how to for implementing online collaboration and interaction in Moodle.


Topics to be Covered:

Glossary and Online Assignments - Learn how to setup and use a Glossary with students and have students complete/turn in work online. We will cover: Glossary; Assignments

Online Discussion and Collaboration - Learn the tools and implementation strategies to have students participate and collaborate in online discussions. We will cover the following: Forum

Data Collection Asking Questions and Data Driven Decision Making - Part 1 - Learn the tools and know how to construct online, self-graded quizzes and collect data to help drive your instruction. We will cover the following: Choice; Quiz

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


Who Should Attend:
K-14 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.

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

Professional development credit is offered through both UCSD Extension and the SDUSD Discover Program.

Course fee is $45.00 payable at the door. Space is limited. To reserve your space, please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu.

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