Learn 4 Life: Innovation in Education’s May 31st podcast about Moodle as a free, open-source content management system provides an excellent overview of Moodle and persuasive reasons for “giving it a go” (in the words of the British authors) in your classroom.
The included suggestions to “have a go at it” and “start small as we did” are sensible, as is the observation “you have very little to lose” since the software is free and relatively easy (taking about 15 minutes) to install and configure on a server running Apache and PHP.
The suggestion that Moodle is “useful for action research at the classroom level” was also intriguing from an educational technology research standpoint. The authors emphasized the “social constructivist” foundation of Moodle, recognizing that it could be used as a mere means for delivering learning objects to students, but is much better suited for the collaborative construction of knowledge products and the management of that knowledge environment as social constructivists would advocate.
Learn for Life’s podcasts can be syndicated from http://www.l4l.co.uk/mp3/L4L001.xml.
On this day..
- Podcast355: Cool Tech Tools for the Classroom by Cheryl Freeman - 2010
- A New DNA of Pedagogy and Learning (YouTube video - Greg Whitby by Marco Torres) - 2010
- Great Lineup of Keynote Speakers for the 2010 K-12 Online Conference #k12online10 - 2010
- Questioning the potential value of Skype and videoconferencing in the classroom? - 2009
- Another digital divide: Understanding Learning Community Power - 2009
- Webcasts tonight: Teachers are Talking and Storychasers - 2008
- Comments about Oklahoma education from Kirk Humphreys - 2008
- Comments about Oklahoma education by V. Burns Hargis, President of Oklahoma State Univ - 2008
- Notes from Dr. Pedro Noguera’s Keynote at BLC08: "Changing the Culture of Schools: Creating Conditions that Promote Student Achievement" - 2008
- You CAN take it with you! by Bob Sprankle - 2007
