Moodle

By Jeremy King • September 29th, 2011

One of the new innovations we are seeing in instructional technology is the trend towards flipped instruction. The basic concept of flipped instruction is students do what we now consider classwork at home. When they return to school, they do what is traditionally considered homework. The big question that runs through everyone’s mind is “How [...]

As part of the Digital Renaissance, we’ve recently upgraded our learning management system to the latest version of Moodle. This new version of Moodle offers many advantages:

Faster, more reliable access – The old Moodle server has become slow as many more teachers and students are using it every day. The new service is hosted in [...]

Many Baldwin County teachers use Moodle to create activities that allow students to collaborate on projects and share ideas anytime and anywhere Internet access is available.  These same tools can help your group build an online professional learning community that’s available any time, any place.
What can you do with an online PLC?
Discussion Forums – Forums [...]

One of the main ideas we have been working on here in IT Services is how can we do more training that fits the time schedule of our customers (teachers)? We still use the face to face method as well as online classes and virtual meetings.  These all work great but they don’t hit everyone we need [...]

Registration for the fall online PD coursese is now open.  The sessions being offered are:
Session 1 – Begins Sept 15

Creating a Class Website with School Insites – IT-TEA-129
United Streaming – IT-TEA-128
Promethean Basics- IT-TEA-144
SMARTboard Basics – IT-TEA-142
Using Moodle 1 – IT-TEA-130
Using Moodle 2 – IT-TEA-136
Using Moodle 3 – IT-TEA-137
Graphic Organizers – IT-TEA-140

Session 2 – Begins Oct [...]

A Moodle work session has been scheduled at IT Services to help teachers prepare their Moodle courses for the new school year.  During this session, you’ll work on your existing Moodle course to clear out old student data and get your course ready to be used with your new students.  We’ll also have a variety [...]

With Google Docs you can easily create an online form that automatically submits the data into a Google Docs Spreadsheet where you can analyze and graph it.
Once you’ve created the form, you can embed it in your Moodle course so students can submit it easily.  Students can also create their own forms and post them [...]

Google Docs lets your students create documents, spreadsheets, presentations and forms online that can be accessed from any where.  They can also share their documents to collaborate on assignments or let you review their work.
Google Docs is integrated with our Moodle site so that when students log in to Moodle they are also logged [...]

We’ve been using Moodle for several years to provide teachers with an easy way to create and manage online activities for students.  We’ve now tied Google apps to our Moodle site. The first part of Google apps that is available to students is Google Docs.
What’s Google docs?  Watch Google docs in Plain English for an [...]

A new activity has been added to Moodle: Real Time Quiz. This is a multiple-choice quiz designed for use in a face-to-face lesson. This is perfect for our eMINTS classrooms and use in computer labs. In a class with just a few computers, students could work in groups, too.
When using [...]