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Learn how to create a community of active learners by integrating Web 2.0 tools with the Moodle Learning Management System. Hands-on activities and demonstrations included.
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INTEGRATING WEB 2.0 TOOLS WITH LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MOODLE TO CREATE COMMUNITY OF ACTIVE LEARNERS. LudmillaSmirnova, Ph.D, Presenter Mary-Anne Campo, M.A. ET, Co-Presenter CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
What is this Workshop About? Learning and Teaching in the 21 Century Concepts: defined Web 2.0 and Active Learning Moodle and Engaged Learning Let’s Try It! (Hands on Activity: For Demonstration go to: http://pedagogy20.ninehub.com) CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Learning and Teaching in the Informational Age • What is Learning in the new educational context? • The process of acquiring, exploring, inquiring and applying new concepts through sharing the info with an audience; it results in personal change in behavior, attitudes, values, and thinking. • What is Teaching in the Information Age? • The process of constant learning of how to create conditionsfor students’ learning & surviving in contemporary world. • What is Web 2.0? (9.5 million citations on Google) • What is Moodle? – Learning Management System CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Context: Concepts defined • Web 2.0 is a new generation of Internet-based services based on an interactivity platform, in which content is created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along. • People are having a conversation, with a vocabulary consisting not just of words but of images, video, multimedia and whatever they could get their hands on. And this became, and looked like, and behaved like, a social network (Stephen Downes). • In Web 2. 0, information flows in multiple directions, is user-generated, and widely shared with the community of learners. CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Web 2.0 & Active Learning Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Web 2.0: Three Facets of Learning 2.0 This results in: • Every user is a writer, publisher (Blogger, wiki) • A Designer, producer (Podcast, iTunes) • An Expert (wikipedia) • A Broadcaster (YouTube, google video) • An Editor/Critic of the network(wiki) • Syndicated • Design – userswant a rich user-experience • Open source – you never start from scratch (Google, RSS) • Communications – Social Media put users in control of the conversations. Learning 2.0 is constructing meaning with Web 2.0 tools: creating, remixing, collaborating, sharing it with the global community of learners. CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Web 2.0: Social Revolution Source: http://www.slideshare.net/zvezdan/web2-seminar CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
What Makes the LMS Moodle a good Platform for the Course design and for Engaged Learning? • User-friendly interface • Constructivist nature and premise • Web 2.0 design structure and functionality • Availability of Tools engaging students in • active learning: • Discussion Forum • Blogs • Wiki • Choices/Polls • Compatibility with lots of other programs and tools: CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Web 2.0 Tools for Active Learning • Mind-Mapping: • Mind-Mapping Sites • Collaboration: • Google Docs • Wiki • Communication: • WizIQ • Elluminate • Social Media: • del.icio.us CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
WiZiQ CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Live Communication with Elluminate Elluminate CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
LMS Moodle in Action "The powerful and simplest way to create online class. NineHub.com features popular Moodle web-based Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that lets you start focus on your class activities & contents - without any software download and installation." CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Resources: • You Tube about Web 2.0 • Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog • Web 2.0: Social Revolution • What is Moodle? • Virtual Learning Environment • Blendededu.com - Social Media Resources for Learning in the Digital Aged • del.icio.us/maranca CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII