Sunday, April 21, 2013

Online Experience

I am not currently a teacher but work with instructors on a daily basis. I help with Bay Mills Community College's online courses. At BMCC we use Moodle as our online teaching environment. Moodle is an excellent tool for our students. It allows them to be able to communicate with other classmates as well as their instructor over a long distance. Moodle has discussion forums, quizzes, surveys, glossaries and much more. There are many other online experiences that our instructors can and do use to teach our students as a companion to Moodle, such as educational blogs, wikis, online research, & interactive discussions between students. We have all kinds of classes on Moodle, such as math, English, sociology, science and geography. Moodle allows all kinds of content to be taught because their is such a wide variety of tools that can be used in Moodle. Technologies that I think would difficult to use for our students would be technologies that they have never had any experience with or technologies that cost money.

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  1. My district moved from Blackboard to Moodle a couple of years ago. However, working at the elementary level, I found Edmodo to be a better option for my students (and parents). It's free, contains a grade book and it's interface is similar to Facebook, so students feel right at home from day one. The only drawback I've found has to do with the grade book - I have to export all of the grades to Excel at the end of each marking period, one "class" at a time. It would be better if the tech team would/could develop some sort of cloud storage system that allows teachers to file an entire grade book with one mouse click.=8-)

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