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Blended Learning For All
It started local and word is spreading... You need to see how Wayne RESA provides Moodle! A unique blend of incredible design and functionality wrapped in powerful services that makes using Moodle district-wide easy, affordable, and a long-term tool teachers can rely...
Top 3 Ways to Stop Blended Learning
Everything you need to know to put a halt to blended learning in your K-12 school When it comes to making a decision on a learning management system we are often bombarded with all kinds of advice. The sales pitch for any new LMS is well done and very convincing with...
Elementary Activities Teachers Can Use in Their Classrooms RIGHT NOW!
Ready-Made, Ready to Use Courses Over the past month, I have been busy creating a few courses that teachers could use right now. These courses were designed to be imported into a current iLearn(Moodle) course, so they can be edited to fit individual needs, or they...
Dearborn Moodle Moot 2017
July 19th and 20th and August 15th and 16th https://moot.dearbornschools.org The Dearborn Moodle Moots focus on actual implementation for YOUR classroom. The first day is instructional. Lots of choice, models and tools are shared. The second day is all about...
Effective Peer Assessment that Transcends Technology
Over the past two years, several teachers in Dearborn have been integrating technology to help their students engage in effective peer- and self-assessment. Utilizing the Moodle Workshop module, students have assessed their own work and that of their peers with...
Multilingual Moodle
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
The Workshop Module is one of the most underutilized tools in Moodle. This teacher uses the Workshop to build student accountability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJxsg8nrKc4
Facilitate Deeper Learning
Moodle helped free this teacher to facilitate deeper learning using the Workshop Module https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upfubs8r_Q8
Scaffolding and Interventions Using Moodle
See why this teacher uses Moodle for scaffolding and interventions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c62OxcdYl1Q
The Open Source Learning Stack – Everything your district needs to take ownership of learning
Experience a fully integrated learning playground where open source powers web conferencing, portfolios, classroom / school websites, and all the bells and whistles that make all of this manageable with limited resources. Be ready to learn about the best open source tools, integration, and experiences learned over the last 10 years of building and using an open source learning stack.
Test Averages Jump. Test Anxiety Dropped.
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
Check out the latest information on one of the best themes for K-12 here: https://michiganmoodle.dearbornschools.org/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...
Part Three: Student Centered Assessment using Workshop in Moodle
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
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
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...
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