Moodle how tos session 3

Getting social with Moodle

• internet (10.4mil), 4,2m mobile wireless, 8.2m mobile handset, 81% have 1.5 Mbps+, 7h+month social media - highest time spent in the world?
• Aust visitors 12 mil unique visits to FB July 2011, 10 YouTube, ....
• Why get social? Popular, engaging, empowering (generating content), constructive
• Tools - blog, comment, chat, Forum, Wiki, tags, repos, messaging
• News Forums - general news and announcements, good to have a block on the side with latest posts
• useful if forum messages are sent to mailboxes - but digest is very useful for avoiding mailbox bombing
• Chat - synchronous & archived
• useful blocks - online users
  

Getting lost in the Book module

• Why use the book module??
• avoiding the scroll of death
• book - impressive content with built-in navigation
• editing book module adds a layer of complexity, teachers who get help from a third party
• the scroll of death is typically thought not to be good from a teacher pov
• uses: course information, study guides, any static content (unless teacher has html skills)
  

Integrate with iTunes U

• require an iTunes U site already - method of distributing digital content, customer site with public and internal access, 800 unis around the world with sites - a lot of free content e.g. MIT, Yale, etc
• internal access for IP don't want made available publicly 
• free of charge for ed institutions
• more limited usage by K-12
• beyond campus - museums, etc...
• multiple formats can be provided
• iTunes U block
• content doesn't have to sit on iTunes site - use RSS feeds to tell iTunes U where material sits