Slide 1: INTEGRATING WEB 2.0 TOOLS WITH LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM MOODLE TO CREATE COMMUNITY OF ACTIVE LEARNERS. Ludmilla Smirnova, Ph.D, Presenter Mary-Anne Campo, M.A. ET, Co-Presenter CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 2: What is this Workshop About? Learning and Teaching in the 21 Century Concepts: defined Web 2.0 and Active Learning Moodle and Engaged Learning Let’s Try It! (Hands on Activity: For Demonstration go to: http://pedagogy20.ninehub.com) CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 3: Learning and Teaching in the Informational Age  What is Learning in the new educational context?  The process of acquiring, exploring, inquiring and applying new concepts through sharing the info with an audience; it results in personal change in behavior, attitudes, values, and thinking.  What is Teaching in the Information Age?  The process of constant learning of how to create conditions for students’ learning & surviving in contemporary world.  What is Web 2.0? (9.5 million citations on Google) 2.0  What is Moodle? – Learning Management System CAE 2008, Integration, LearningCAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 4: Context: Concepts defined  Web 2.0 is a new generation of Internet-based services based on an interactivity platform, in which content is created, shared, remixed, repurposed, and passed along.  People are having a conversation, with a vocabulary consisting not just of words but of images, video, multimedia and whatever they could get their hands on. And this became, and looked like, and behaved like, a social network (Stephen Downes).  In Web 2. 0, information flows in multiple 0 directions, is user-generated, and widely shared with the community of learners. CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 5: Web 2.0 & Active Learning Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog CAE 2008, Integration, Learning CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 6: Web 2.0: Three Facets of Learning 2.0  Design – users want a rich user-experience This results in:  Every user is a writer, publisher (Blogger, wiki)  A Designer, producer (Podcast, iTunes)  An Expert (wikipedia)  A Broadcaster (YouTube, google video)  An Editor/Critic of the network (wiki)  Syndicated  Open source – you never start from scratch (Google, RSS)  Communications – Social Media put users in control of the conversations. Learning 2.0 is constructing meaning with Web 2.0 tools: creating, remixing, collaborating, sharing it with the global community of learners. CAE 2008, Integration, Learning CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 7: Web 2.0: Social Revolution Source: http://www.slideshare.net/zvezdan/web2-seminar CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII & Course redesign VIII
Slide 8: What Makes the LMS Moodle a good Platform for the Course design and for Engaged Learning? • • • • User-friendly interface Constructivist nature and premise Web 2.0 design structure and functionality Availability of Tools engaging students in active learning:  Discussion Forum  Blogs  Wiki  Choices/Polls • Compatibility with lots of other programs and tools: CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign CAE 2008, Integration, Learning VIII Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 9: Web 2.0 Tools for Active Learning Mind-Mapping: Mind-Mapping Sites Collaboration: Google Docs Wiki Communication: WizIQ Elluminate Social Media: del.icio.us CAE 2008, Integration, Technology & Course redesign CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology VIII & Course redesign VIII
Slide 10: WiZiQ CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 11: Live Communication with Elluminate CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 12: LMS Moodle in Action "The powerful and simplest way to create online class. NineHub.com features popular Moodle web-based Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that lets you start focus on your class activities & contents - without any software download and installation." CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII
Slide 13: Resources: • You Tube about Web 2.0 • Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog • Web 2.0: Social Revolution • What is Moodle? • Virtual Learning Environment • Blendededu.com - Social Media Resources for Learning in the Digital Aged • del.icio.us/maranca CAE 2008, Integration, Learning Community: Pedagogy, Technology & Course redesign VIII