Multilingual Moodle

by WebGuy | Teaching

Teachers across our district work tirelessly to crush barriers to student learning. Armed with a desire to do whatever it takes, many rightly equip themselves with a tool set that includes technology in order to make themselves extremely effective at...

Self-Assessment and Peer Review

by WebGuy | Promo, Teaching

The Workshop Module is one of the most underutilized tools in Moodle.  This teacher uses the Workshop to build student...

Facilitate Deeper Learning

by WebGuy | Promo, Teaching

Moodle helped free this teacher to facilitate deeper learning using the Workshop Module

Scaffolding and Interventions Using Moodle

by WebGuy | Promo, Teaching

See why this teacher uses Moodle for scaffolding and interventions

The Open Source Learning Stack – Everything your district needs to take ownership of learning

by WebGuy | Moodle Administration, Teaching

How’d you get here? At Dearborn Public Schools we have been building what today would be called a learning “Stack”.  Back when we started out down this path we called it “meeting needs and solving problems” using web software called...

Test Averages Jump. Test Anxiety Dropped.

by WebGuy | Teaching

Read the full story over at the Tech Coaches blog in Dearborn Public Schools At one point, I decided to try something new to force students to have to interact with the material. Instead of spending many hours making the notes and study guides better, more colorful,...

Give your Moodle a Theme Focused on K-12 Education

by WebGuy | Moodle Administration, Plugins, Teaching

Check out the latest information on one of the best themes for K-12 here: Fordson Theme for Moodle In case you missed it there is a new theme on the horizon for Moodle which is focused on the needs and feedback from K-12 teachers and students.  Introducing Fordson!...

Part Three: Student Centered Assessment using Workshop in Moodle

by WebGuy | Teaching, Workshop Series

This is part of a series:  Part One  |  Part Two Over the past couple weeks, Dearborn teachers Scott Apple, Marla Wiacek, and Julie Wooton have had their students using the Moodle (iLearn) Workshop module to submit writing and then self- and peer-assess that writing...

Part Two: Better Writing with Peer Review

by WebGuy | Teaching, Workshop Series

Using H5P plugin for Moodle to Guide Student Writing Check out Part One To begin the writing process we want students to follow a format.  First they must summarize the parts of the Declaration of Independence and then write a paragraph for each section.  H5P is a new...

Part One: Better Writing with Peer Review

by WebGuy | Teaching, Workshop Series

This is part one of a series as we will be covering a writing workshop where students peer review using a rubric.  The subject matter is the Declaration of Independence. How do you go about trying to increase writing skills and expose students to writings from peers...