M4T-Beginner Workshop Syllabus

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Beginner Workshop (M4T-B)

January 24 - February 19, 2011

M4T-B workshop is intended to provide beginners with the necessary knowledge and skills
to create basic Moodle resources and activities.
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M4T-B Workshop Syllabus

Goal

The goal of the M4T-Beginner workshop is to help educators ensure the quality of online learning through systematic instructional design of online and blended online courses (BOL) and instructor training on online pedagogies.

Description

This intensive, four-week-long workshop is designed to engage you in theoretical and practical aspects of online learning and teaching with a Learning Management System called Moodle. You will be introduced to the Moodle philosophy and course development tools. By successfully completing the program you will have acquired the knowledge and skills needed to create basic Moodle resources and activities for blended online learning (BOL) or blended learning (BL) courses. As online learners, you will learn to understand online learning from the student's perspective so you can prepare your future courses with the learner in mind.

Workshop Context

In the workshop you will be randomly assigned to work in a team to collaboratively design, develop and facilitate a lesson in your area of teaching. Each person in the team will develop a lesson with example activities and resources. You will also be encouraged to reflect on the process of developing your lesson and to share your learning experiences with your peers.

Workload & Format

M4T-B requires participants to be active at least 5 hours a week on theoretical and practical aspects of online learning (individually and in teams).
M4T-B will include asynchronous (via Moodle - a course management system) and synchronous (via WiZiQ - a web conferencing tool) components.

Workshop Layout

This 4 week facilitated workshop will cover the following topics:

• Topic 1: Getting Started. Learn how to use the various editing tools and how to work with files and folders from a teacher perspective.
• Topic 2: Moodle Resources. Learn how to add common Moodle "resources" eg: a label, a webpage, a link to a web site and a link to a file.
  
• Topic 3: Moodle Activities. Learn how to add common "Moodle "activities" eg: forum, choice, assignments, wikis etc.
  Research suitable activities and develop a lesson with example activities and resources. 
  
• Topic 4: Share & Evaluate. Complete the lessons developed by your team members and provide feedback for improvements. 
  

Expected Learning Outcomes

By the end of the workshop learners should be able to:

• Update course settings
• View participant profiles, blogs and course activities log
• Use Moodle editing tools to add content
  
• Add resources and activities to a blank Moodle course to create a basic lesson

Certification

The Facilitators will issue you with a Certificate on successful completion of the workshop. 

M4T-4

Greetings,





The next Moodle for Teachers (M4T) workshop is scheduled to begin on March 2, 2010. The key is teachingly4. The aim of
M4T-4 online workshop is to help you
design and teach Moodle courses. M4T-4 requires participants to be
active at least 8-10 hours a week on theoretical and practical aspects of
online instruction and learning. Please access the Moodle for Teachers
(M4T) workshop. 
M4T-4 will include asynchronous (via the Moodle)
(via WiZiQ) components. 
For a start, go into your profile and add as much information as you
can. Please include your time zone. Next, introduce yourself and add
comments to others' posts
in the intro discussion thread.
Remember, the workshop is about trying things out and making mistakes is part of it;
so have fun!!! 






Enroll now to ensure your place.







Thank you.



The Facilitators

Holland

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International Collaborative Project on the Holocaust

We need high school teachers who are interested in involving their students in learning about the Holocaust as part of a European project initiative with Poland, Italy, Germany and Israel for the 2009 school year. The project will be online via ning social network,  Wikieducator, and  WiZiQ for live online conferences. Please add your information and/or pass on the form to others who may be interested.

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Storytelling and Cultures

Storytelling and Culures by Nellie Deutsch

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Ludmila Smirnova is Associate Profess...

Integrating Technology into the Classroom Sessions

Juggling Blindfolded While Walking a Tight Rope: A Full-time Teacher's Transition to Teaching 2.0 While Mastering New Technologies, Tools and Leaning Management Systems



Ludmila Smirnova is Associate Professor of Education at Mount St. Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y., where she has taught for the past 9 years. At the Mount, she offers courses in Curricular Planning, Methods of Teaching and Teaching with Technology and serves as counselor to Kappa Delta Pi, the International Honor Society in Education. She has become increasingly recognized for her leadership in the application of emerging Internet technologies in education. She ran workshops on application of Smart Technologies (Smart Board) and of Web 2.0 tools to the American classroom for faculty and teachers from education programs across the northeast.



Prior to coming to the Mount, Dr, Smirnova was visiting professor at Ramapo College of N.J. for two years. In her native Russia, she was professor of education at Volgograd State Pedagogical University, where she also served as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages. During her 25-year Russian career, Dr. Smirnvoa was known for her work in innovative approaches to teaching. Dr. Smirnova was a Montessori trainer, and has run seminars and training programs for Montessori teachers in Russia and the U.S. She played a key role in creating a model Ecological Gymnasium and other experimental “charter schools". A number of her Ph.D. students and scores of Masters students worked with her to produce comparative studies of successful innovative efforts in education.



Beyond the seventy books and other articles and chapters she published in Russia and abroad, Dr. Smirnova has written for and presented to a growing list of professional audiences in the U.S. Her most recent achievements were co-editing of a volume on comparative approaches to environmental problems in which her work on the Ecological Gymnasium is featured and her presentation “Technology Enhanced teaching and Learning for Student (and Teacher) Success at Faculty Resource Network conference “Defining Student Success” in San Francisco in November 2008.

Link to the online article: http://www.nyu.edu/frn/publications/defining.success/Smirnova.html

Drawing from her own experience, the presenter discusses the successful adoption of new technologies, tools and learning management systems to both face-to face and online classroom settings. For the full time teacher, these tasks require strategies for new learning and efficient integration into existing course structures. Teaching 2.0 approaches demand the right pedagogy, an open mind and a commitment to new learning. The author, who chairs the college’s Academic Technology Advancement Committee, was an advanced Web CT user. She had learned in her own teaching to overcome the LMS’ limitations by employing other multimedia tools, including WiZiQ, Tapped In, Google groups, Blogger, and Gtalk. Nevertheless, it was time to see if a more effective alternative LMS was available. For the person already working full time, high motivation and drive and a willingness to place learning before life are required.





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