Moodle for English Teachers

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Moodle for English Teachers

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Moodle for English Teachers

• I. INTRODUCTION
• What is Moodle
• Why is Moodle?
• Some Technical Details
• II. USEFUL MODULES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING
• Basic Modules
• Examples of How to Use Modules
• III. HOW TO MAKE GOOD USE OF MOODLE
• Create your online course
• Conferencing Web Site
• Online Community
• IV. CONCLUSION

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Official Moodle Website http//moodle.org/
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INTRODUCTION

• A Need of a Convenient Tool for Teachers
  Students
• Web Presence
• Teachers might want to share with peers
  information on a particular area of expertise
  within their field
• They might want to help students establish a web
  presence so they can write authentically and
  communicatively to an audience that extends
  beyond the walls of classrooms
• Content/Knowledge Management
• Considerable chunk of data/documents that is
  required to be accessed quickly and managed
  easily but safely.
• Difficulty of maintaining Websites

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What is Moodle? A Course Management System
(CMS)

• Moodle Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
  Environment
• http//moodle.org/ Moodle is a course management
  system (CMS) - a free, open source software
  package designed using sound pedagogical
  principles, to help educators create effective
  online learning communities.
• Matt Riordan (2003) Moodle is the name of a
  program that allows the classroom to extend onto
  the web. This program allows a common place for
  students to go for many classroom resources. ()
• Moodle is a free online course management system
  (CMS) which is especially good for language
  teaching.

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How Popular?

• How many Moodle Sites?
• 10036 registered from 150 countries
  (http//moodle.org/sites/ on March 10, 2006)
• United States of America 2171 sites
• United Kingdom 798 sites
• Spain 715 sites
• Brazil 400 sites
• Australia 338 sites
• Thailand 311 sites
• Japan 166 sites
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