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Topic 1
Join Moodle enthusiasts from across Michigan to share ideas, collaborate with other users, and learn about what's new with Moodle. A wide range of workshops led by experienced educators and Moodle users eager to share their knowledge are listed below. Attendees who want to practice what they learn should bring a laptop computer and have a course in Moodle which they can modify. Registration includes a license for the latest version of TechSmith's SnagIt software for Windows or OSX.
- Collaboration through Moodle
- Creating and Enabling a "Mini Me" in Your Local Districts
- Flipping Instruction Screencasts and YouTube
- Getting in Bed with Embedding
- Getting Started with Moodle
- How an Administrator + a Web Browser can Create a Custom Moodle Site
- How Moodle Changed My/Our Teaching Lives
- Instructional Design and Practice
- Is Moodle Right for Your District?
- Marketing Moodle and More
- Moodle & Google Docs - a Blended Approach
- Moodle and the iPad
- Moodle Integrations - Wordpress, Etherpad, Mahara, Big Blue Button
- Moodle Quizzes: Going Beyond Multiple Choice
- Peer Review ?? Read It, Rate It: Moodle Workshop
- Resources and Contributing to the MiLearns Online Portal
- Teacher Evaluation through Moodle
- Using Badges in Moodle
- Using Moodle in a CTE Curriculum
- Using Your New SnagIt Software
Instructional Design and Practice Sessions
Session 2: Collaboration through Moodle
This hands on session will use Moodle to collaborate amongst attendees. All attendees will collaboratively edit a document in real time to collect great thinking. This session will focus on a Moodle add-on (EtherPad). Learn why you want to have this powerful tool at your (and your students') command.
Presenters: Chris Kenniburg and Troy Patterson, Dearborn Public SchoolsThis website offers turnkey distributions of popular open source products that can be deployed on your own machines or in the cloud. Etherpad is one of the products available to help you get started quickly.
Session 3: Teacher Evaluation
Learn how one district set up a Teacher Evaluation Course using Moodle. This session will look at various components in Moodle (such as OUWiki, the Book Module, etc). The question to answer was: can Moodle provide a free alternative to paid teacher evaluation software?
Presenter: Troy Patterson, Dearborn Public Schools
Link to the example site (housed and published through Dearborn Public Schools).
User Name: mimoot
Password - gomimoot
This is a copy of the course created to use as a Teacher Evaluation Model. This was last edited in Moodle version 2.4. You can download the file. Please note that the Teacher Rubrics are specific to Dearborn Public Schools.
Session 3: Flipping Instruction Screencasts and YouTube
Session 4: Getting in Bed with Embedding
To access the sample Getting Embed with Embedding go to this site: http://bit.ly/embedinmoodle - a Moodle course with embed examples, hosted on the Muskegon Area ISD's Moodle server. From the top of this course site you will find a link allowing you to download the entire course with rights to freely modify it as desired.
Session 4: Moodle Integrations – Wordpress, Etherpad, Mahara, Big Blue Button
Get the most out of Moodle! Learn how to fully integrate Moodle with single sign-on web applications that provide your organization with powerful web 2.0 tools such as blogging, real-time document authoring, and student collaboration.
Presenter: Chris Kenniburg, Dearborn Public SchoolsThis is a questionnaire that is created and stored on Dearborn Public School's Moodle site.
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Free Moodle Resources and Training Videos
