Monday, June 18, 2012

Moodle Monday - Digital Habitats

This weeks Moodle Monday is a book recommendation.

Digital Habitats:  Stewarding technology for communities. -  Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, and John D. Smith.  2009.
Digital Habitats is recommended for anyone who is interested in building an online community in their class.    It does a great job of framing theory and the tools together in way that helps the reader understand how technology can be used to foster a community of learners.

I found this book helpful in understanding how learning happens in an online environment.  I like that it's focus is not on tools, but on the activities that people engage in online.  After explaining the activity it then shares tools that might be used to accomplish that activity.


 Here is a diagram from the book showing a graphic organizing tools from a community perspective.

You can read about the book at it's website:

Monday, June 4, 2012

Moodle Monday - Orientation to Online Learning Course

Help students new to Moodle learn to use Moodle activities and resources by pointing them to the new Online Learning Orientation Course.   https://svcc.mrooms3.net/course/view.php?id=901

This course is free and open to any Sauk student enrolled in a Moodle course.

The course was designed to instruct students who have never used Moodle in how to use it's basic activities: quizzes, forums, assignments, and email.   It also provides information on how to save files in different formats before uploading, and in how to access and open several different file types.

The course is only two sections long and is designed to be completed in about two hours.

Alternatively, we can make this course available to you so you can import any of the activities or resources directly into your course.  This way you can integrate an introduction directly into your course.

Call the ITC for more details or for help with this course.
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