New Moodler
One of my goals this year is to add diversity to my activities and pace to my lessons. Another goal is to develop and incorporate Moodle into my teaching. Unfortunately, I’ve been approaching these as exclusive goals when they could be beneficially considered one.
Only two weeks in, but there’s already a temptation to use Moodle solely as a place where students can catch up. Ex/ “didn’t catch the objective during our lesson? Go online and check out all these amazing notes and glossaries I’ve provided you with.”
It’s great that I can provide students with a variety of online alternatives to taking notes in class, but the next step for this Moodle user has been bringing a diversity of activities to Moodle.
So far:
- Book recommendations (forum)
- Group problem-solving (forum)
- Sharing knowledge online (wiki)
- Modeling exemplary work produced in the class (posted as resources, actually).
It’s still a work in progress.
Some of these strategies are beginning to work. Others have yet to find a market, but activities remain a better angle than catch-up resources.
