Moodle Learning theory activity

Geesh... I thought I was going to sail through this one... boy was I wrong.

I worked with moodle in the past and I got really hung up on actually getting it to work for me. I tried and tried bit by bit, but couldn't get anything to load into my sandbox area. I knew I had to get going on my ideas and not challenge the technology so I ended up writing about what I would do in the wiki. Sad... I know... sad... I did really want to accomplish using Moodle as an LMS and launching something. As some of the vendors that I work with use Moodle on an on-going basis I do really want to get a handle on this technology. In my last course the 4150 I did get pretty good at navigating around, but building inside just kind of stumped me this time around. I think if I had a few hours to dedicate to learning the technology outright, then I would have been more successful. I found a website to use of the generational videos that my company owns. Everything is locked down pretty tight due to copyright, so this information wouldn't be easily available on You tube for me to use with my learners... but having the students read, make notes and provide a forum post does ensure that they read the material and digest it. then reading through others answers and providing a summary of what they have taken away from this lesson is good learning.

I went back and forth on my instructions as I know I am not as clear as I should be sometimes, and actually doing the marking rubric exercise at the end made my course easier to understand. Thank goodness for the marking rubric.... my poor learners!

I will use this outline as I move forward to ensure that I have dotted my "i's" and crossed my "t's"
Thanks for the opportunity... this one was a good challenge for me

Multimedia Assignment thoughts

Well it is a few days late past our due date for the multi media assignment.

My entire team came through and as we aren't as communicative a group as the group I was with in 4150 - I do like that we have a chance to bounce ideas off of each other. Looking at everyone else's submission I now am rethinking my low tech ways... although I liked the contrast and that it may have been less intimidating for my learners to use paper and simple writing to express my lesson. The other submissions were much more polished and I think I should have gone this route too. But all in all I am proud that:
1) I put my submission inside a blog
2) that the idea kind of worked and
3) that I had a review puzzle exercise to add.

I am a bit sad as my laptop had some issues and the sound quality for my recording were not at all good.... but - I will keep on and try again. I like the "low tech" and "high tech" mix with the images of simple things done inside a move and then inside a blog. But I think I will change it up moving forward. This was a great learning experience and I appreciate the opportunity to try things out. All of the media resources to help out have been great.