The Community of Expertise in Educational Technology (CEET) and LearnNowBC are pleased to offer a smorgasbord of MOODLE MEETS this 2011/2012 school year.
Moodle Meets are free, one week online courses, or "Professional Learning Potlucks", led by experienced educators. Moodle Meet topics focus on the resources and skills needed to use technology in the classroom as well as on the skills needed to teach and learn in a virtual environment.
For more information, join CEET. (http://ceetbc.ning.com)
CEET is an online community created by and for BC educators to support teaching and learning through technology.
Moodle Course Design - Tips and Tricks
22-Sep-2011 to 28-Sep-2011
This MoodleMeet shares tips and tricks on designing a course in the Moodle environment. There are many options available to personalize Moodle to fit your course needs. This course is suitable for beginning and experienced Moodlers alike--please come and share your experience.
mLearning: Mobile, Wireless in Your Pocket Learning
28-Oct-2011 to 02-Nov-2011
The world in your pocket. Advances in mobile technologies are showing enormous untapped educational potential. Mobile learning, or mLearning, is learning accomplished with the use of small, portable computing devices including smartphones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), tablets, itouches, ipads and similar handheld devices. This course will explore initiatives, projects and a myriad of ways to use handheld devices in classroom. It also provides examples of well-designed mobile learning content and provides information on best practices for creating your own mobile learning objects.
Newest Tools
04-Nov-2011 to 09-Nov-2011
Want to know what's new on the 'Net - the latest apps, leading edge tool and cutting-edge resources - then this session is for you. The focus is free, web based tools and resources such as photo editing tools, survey/quiz tools, file conversion tools, web searching tools, sound editing tools, fonts and clipart, games and simulations, video repositories and more. These resources will help you work faster, do more, leap tall buildings and create some incredible learning activities. Whether you're a novice or seasoned "Web Head", newbie or tech master, there's something here for you. See you in November :-)
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eAssessment
18-Nov-2011 to 23-Nov-2011
An introduction to assignments, quizzes and gradebooks.
Authentic Global Collaboration
06-Jan-2012 to 11-Jan-2012
It has never been easier to connect classrooms around the world, and lots of teachers are doing it in different ways. In this course we will explore how you can turn a connection into a global learning experience for your students. We will look at ways to make this experience authentic and real, and discuss what it takes to collaborate with other classes in other countries. Ultimately our contention is that authentic global collaboration has less to do with the tools and more to do with approaches to teaching and learning.
Motivating Extras
20-Jan-2012 to 25-Jan-2012
Motivating Extras. Educators are always on the search for making learning interesting for all students. Web 2.0 tools have given us many more options to make this possible. In this course, you will be exploring many different resources available today to transform your present lessons into tools for meeting NETS standards and improving learning.
Virtual Learning
10-Feb-2012 to 15-Feb-2012
Virtual Learning. Learning that is immersive, authentic, and contextual.As part of this course you will have a chance to examine the different global collaborative opportunities available to teachers, and explore the teacher skills, student skills and appropriate pedagogy needed to turn those connections into an authentic, collaborative learning experience.
Creating and Integrating SCORM into MOODLE
24-Feb-2012 to 29-Feb-2012
This workshop introduces participants to the SCORM standard. We will begin with an overview of SCORM, including its definition and history. SCORM will be demonstrated by participants using learning objects packaged in SCORM and integrated within a MOODLE course. We will try out different learning objects developed both with commercially available software (Articulate Engage and Quizmaker) and free development tools. Participants will follow a step-by-step tutorial to develop a simple course unit using freely available software and export this to a SCORM package.
Digital Literacy
09-Mar-2012 to 14-Mar-2012
Screencasting 101
16-Mar-2012 to 21-Mar-2012
SMART Boards
20-Apr-2012 to 25-Apr-2012
The goals for this week are to : (1) discover and share best practices for using SB’s (all levels/all subjects) (2) reconnect with your inner innovator by playing with the tools in the gallery, (3) create & ‘crowd source’ at least one new learning activity using Notebook software, and (4) develop lasting relationships with other SB-using educators.
Building a Project Based Course From the Ground Up
04-May-2012 to 09-May-2012
Project Based Learning is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real-world problems and challenges, simultaneously developing cross-curriculum skills while working in small collaborative groups. During this week, explore research around PBL, view proven examples and learn the steps to develop a PBL curriculum.
Instructional Design Best Practice
25-May-2012 to 30-May-2012
The focus of this moodlemeet is investigating what current research offers teachers and others to develop effective online courses. Among the topics we will discuss are: defining what quality comprises in (K12) online learning; what are students' expectations of online learning; and what can teachers do to with moodle tools to promote quality in their virtual classrooms.