Making moodle more social and fun

Making oodle more social and fun

Moodle Sharing Seminar, UM7th February 2012

Frankie KamGraduate Lecturer, Coordinator

Stamford College

[email protected]://moodurian.blogspot.comBecause sharing

is caring!

Contents

I. A bit about MeII. Five Moodle customisations

1. Hiding clutter with Autohide 2. Having fun with the Online Users block3. Motivating students with Multistamps4. Post content and comment with the Wall

A bit about me• Married with one wife and two children• Working in Stamford College since 1996• Teaching IT and programming, Ms Office By day, a Coordinator for the Computing School… ….a Moodle ‘code developer’

by night

• Wrote Msc. Paper “How Moodle supports Self-Directed-Learning” (OUM, 2011)

• I love to share code with others on my blog

Jom Facebook• Started the

Facebook group “Moodle Malaysia Boleh” in May 2011

(a grand total of 34 members currently)

A bit about me Blogger on Moodurian.blogspot.com since 2011. So far, 134 posts, 55 Moodle hacks.

Making Moodle More Social and Fun

Social (adjective) relating to activities in which you

meet and spend time with other people

Fun (adjective) Amusing, entertaining, or

enjoyable: "it was a fun evening".

1. Autohide for Moodle 2.x themes– reducing clutter

1. Autohide for Moodle 2.x themes







2. Spicing up the Online Users block





3. Motivating students with Multistamps


The Standard Stamp Collection module. From this…


…to this!




Integrated with the Logged in user block


An Email is sent once a stamp is awarded.“gld:First place in Electrical Engineering Test1...

Keep up the good work!”

4. The Wall

4. The Wall

Facebook’s got a Wall…

4. The Wall

Mahara’s got a Wall…

4. The Wall

Joomla’s (Jomsocial) got a Wall…

WHAT ABOUT MOODLE?

4. The Wall

Benefits of a Wall for Moodle

1. Instant posting of information2. Allows context feedback3. Mimics Facebook4. Encourages sharing 5. Encourages collaboration6. Fun to use (user icons)7. Multifunctional8. Complements the Forum

activity

4. The Wall

Origin = Srinivas Tamada’s Facebook-like Wall Version 3.0

http://www.9lessons.info/2011/05/facebook-wall-script-with-php-and.html

4. The Wall

Can be embeded inside a course page

4. The Wall

Allows Voice-To-Text Input (microphone)

4. The Wall

Allows various Web 2.0 embedded content

YoutubeScribdVimeoImage URLS, etc.

4. The Wall

Add a background.

4. The Wall

Add rich text (various font sizes, styles, colours)

4. The Wall

And toggle between text and rich-text formats

4. The Wall

Mix image backgrounds and rich text

4. The Wall

More fonts

4. The Wall

Supports Unicode

(Inter-national

languages)

4. The Wall

Allows gamification

4. The Wall

Allows gamification

4. The Wall

Allows copy-and-

paste of Website content

4. The Wall

AllowsTeacher

To receiveE-mail

Of Wallpost

4. The WallDate stamping

4. The Wall

Private JournalFeature Mr Student is

logged in,but cannot read

James Dean’s posts

On the wall.

4. The Wall

No scroll of death via Accordian Activity

4. The Wall

4. The Wall

Future work. Social-Related Moodle Stuff

1. Look into Open Badges integration

2. Look into Joomdle

SUMMARYELEMENT WHAT IT DOES BENEFIT

Autohide Gives a cleaner interface for Course Administrators

Removes clutter;Course administration becomes less of a chore.

Online User Block

Allows users to express themselves and be invisible on demand.

Better student engagementBetter acceptability from new users

Multistamps Allows the Teacher to award various stamps

Motivation factorVirtual Rewards for students

Wall All users can posts and comments ala Facebook

Fun to usePromotes sharing of informationVersatile usage

Thank you

Frankie KamGraduate Lecturer

Stamford College [email protected]

http://moodurian.blogspot.com

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Making moodle more social and fun