Moodling

Hi everyone, I'm Julie Bain (in the picture looking surprised and confused) - and if you have any questions about moodling (I'm learning too) please contact me at my school, O'Connor Catholic College: j.bain@oconnor.nsw.edu.au Because I'm self-taught with Moodle the biggest frustration is the time it takes to figure stuff out, but once that's sorted it is pretty straight forward and I imagine, in the long term time will eventually be saved.

[|Moodle is a course managment system or CMS. It allows you to integrate a range of software applications and technologies into your pedagogy.]

[[image:MooMap.jpg width="306" height="258" link="http://inspiration.com"]] WHAT CAN MOODLE DO?
Moodle can do lots of things - as well as being a repository for course material (including stuff you've already created for previous units and topics). It can create assessment tasks (that are self-marked!) including cloze exercises, multiple choice quizzes etc, it can provide student with opportunities to discuss aspects of their course work through forums and chats and it can also incorporate student and teacher blogs. It provides students and teachers with the opportunity to work from home (sometimes a disadvantage for teachers) but it fits well with many teenage life-styles. Also a really cool application (you have to pay a subscription, although it is a useful tool even for free) is [|Survey Monkey] and this application can assist in your teaching and learning through Moodle and is excellent for evaluating course work and assessing what the students have learned from any given unit. .