by Bob Harrison | Mar 14, 2019 | Empowered Learner, Global Communicator, Moodle, Transforming Education
Many teachers have discovered success with the iLearn (Moodle) Workshop module. As we’ve posed many times before, the Workshop is one of the best ways to allow students to peer assess with some accountability. Now, Ms. Cheryl Airgood, American Sign Language...
by Bob Harrison | Mar 5, 2019 | Moodle, Tech Coach Tip
I was struck the other day by the feedback left by a student about an M-STEP Review course he or she had taken part in. The student’s feedback was this: The thing is, this is a lot of stuff. Your average student doesn’t want to do this much studying for a...
by Bob Harrison | Feb 28, 2019 | Empowered Learner, Moodle, Transforming Learning
Supporting students in their acquisition of new vocabulary is one of the most critical components of our teaching. Teachers who use Moodle (iLearn) have an advantage in this sense. Creating a glossary and setting it to auto-link vocabulary allows a teacher to enter...
by Bob Harrison | Jan 25, 2019 | Moodle, Transforming Education
Assessments, just like anything else that happens in our classrooms, are learning experiences. But the way we administer them may cause students to learn false information. In a recent article, “5 Tips for Designing Multiple-Choice Assessments,” Youki...
by Bob Harrison | Jan 16, 2019 | Moodle, Transforming Education, Workshop
On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I worked with Bryant 6th grade ELA teachers Mrs. Patricia Griffin and Mr. Dennis Dicks as they tried out the Moodle Workshop activity for the first time with their students. To begin the process, Mrs. Griffin and Mr. Dicks developed...
by Bob Harrison | Dec 13, 2018 | Computational Thinker, Empowered Learner, Moodle, Transforming Education
Over the past 12 years, many teachers in our district have tried using Moodle (in Dearborn, we call our Moodle site iLearn). A few absolutely took off with it. Many of those teachers are still using it, and at increasingly higher levels each year. Most, however, got...
