Moodle is
a "Virtual Learning Environment",
the platform or tool used to provide online courses (in universities, businesses,
government ...). It's like bringing class home with Professor inside.
Communication is easy, because it has different tools (forums and chat), and
different ways of organizing content area (lessons, web, wikis ...), and even
activities (surveys, tests ...). And it's free!
Some of
the advantages is that the students
can work together to resolve questions and solve problems and also can keep
improving the content of study and completing the matter according to current
needs.
For you to
get familiar with this environment and use it well in the future, we will begin
to work with it ... and you shall be responsible to upload the contents to the
"course", turning you into
your own teachers! But obviously, I will be the webmaster and I will decide
the final markt... ;-)
How? I
created a course called “Avant-garde in the 20th
century art”. This course is "closed", meaning only
accessible if you are registered with your user name and your password (be carefull
not lossing data!). So, nobody outside this class is allowed to participate.
We will completing
this "academic course" gradually. As you see, the index and
instrucctions are yet organized, and also include the short version of Moodle
Manual for Teachers (Read all of these things carefully!). From now on you
who will have to go to them completing sections "content and
activities". We will use several class sessions to work in the computer
lab, but you can (you should) also do some work from home.
Go on!
Good luck!
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