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**Information and Resources relating to Darwin High School PD day, 14th December, 2011**
This page of resources: http://techprecinct.wikispaces.com then select **Moodle for Online Teaching and Learning** Moodle: [] (Your course will be DHS and a number from 1 to 23)
 * BOOKMARK both these sites:**

AMPeL AMPeL Slide Deck: []

AMPeL Introduction Course - to find out more or enrol in AMPeL visit: []

Maths resource site: Free maths tutorials: []

**//Room: B22//** Moodle is an online Learning Management System (LMS) designed for teaching and learning. Moodle provides a platform for delivering learning sequences which can incorporate a variety of tools such as forums, quizzes and tracking grades as well as resources like documents, images and videos. Moodle allows teachers to provide learning materials to students 24/7 in a safe, password-protected environment.
 * //__Moodle for Online Teaching and Learning__//**


 * Needs to be interesting, engaging and interactive**


 * Today we will:**

Why would you use a tool like this? Why use a tool like this? Why use? Why use? Why use? Why use?
 * 1) **Introduce Moodle -**  Chan building, web based 24/7, great community support
 * 2) Look at existing Moodle courses: Indo and Japanese Beginners Stage 1, Geography, Philosophy
 * 3) Moodle can be used for fully ONLINE or BLENDED course material: a whole course, a term’s work, a unit’s work, extra resources, homework, revision material, links location . ..
 * 4) Moodle makes Personalised/Individualised learning easy to achieve, students progress at their own pace through resources and activities
 * 5) **Demo** – editing on, blocks, eye to hide, pencil to edit add friend to course – admin block/Assign Roles/ Choose Student or Teacher – search, add them!
 * 6) **Participants Practice** - Open your Sandpit course in //ourcourses.ntschools.net// using your ntschools username and password
 * 7) Have a look through the resources in the ‘Useful Links’ block (top left)
 * 8) **Demo** how to make a colourful Label //‘Add Resource – Insert a Label – write text and colour it - Save at bottom of page’//
 * 1) **Participants practice**
 * 2) **Demo** Create a forum //‘Add Activity – choose Forum – name it – write description - Save at bottom of page’// then //‘Add a topic’ ‘reply’//
 * 1) **Participants Practice**
 * 2) **Demo** add a Single File Upload – //‘Add Activity – single file upload – choose title and description and marks, then save at bottom of page’//
 * 3) **Participants practice**
 * 4) **Demo** Insert a Scootle TLF object ‘Add Resource – Scootle Item – ‘Search’ – find the resource and copy it’s TLF ID – eg. L3425 – paste into course - Save at bottom of page’
 * 1) **Participants Practice**
 * 2) **Demo** Create a Webpage – Add a Resource – Webpage’ name it, give it a summary, put some teacher talk instructions into the main text field.
 * 1) **Participants Practice**
 * 2) Change roles //‘Switch Role To . . and select **Student**’//
 * 3) **Demo** Embed a You Tube video into the recently created Webpage – hit the edit button – get embed code and paste into HTML view of webpage
 * 1) **Demo** Adding a Link to a website of interest ‘Add Resource – Link to a file or website – name it – give it a brief summary – put the copied link into the gap, open in new window, save at bottom of page
 * Participants Practice**
 * 1) Look at how the grade book works - AMPeL – term 4 - ?karin
 * 2) Look at reports that can be generated – AMPeL – term 4