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Welcome

Moving Faculty to the Moodle Big Leagues with All-Star Training

with Courtney Bentley, Lafayette Collegeand Jan Pontia, Birmingham-Southern College

a special topic for instructional technologists and their colleagues

October 2, 2009

Moderator: Nancy Millichap, NITLEMIV Support: Bret Olsen, NITLE

What do you hope to gain from this session?

• Type in the chat area one thing that you hope to hear about during this session.

You First…

• Name your team: (where do you fit best)– A. Instructional Technology– B. Information Technology– C. Library– D. Faculty– E. Other

Place a Mark… Identify your Moodle

Use

Rookie <1 year

Major league =2+ years

In the Dugout: considering /piloting

Minor league 1-2 years

Have never seenthe Moodle interface

Our Stats:

• 125 full-time faculty• Approx. Faculty

trying Moodle first term of use = 90

• 1500 students• 1 Moodle support

(Inst. Tech)• 1st fullblown term –

just out of the dugout

• 197 full-time faculty

• 48% of Fall ‘09 course sites in use

• 2,382 students • 2+ Moodle

support• 5 semesters on the

field

Rookie VetJan- BSC Courtney-Lafayette

BSC, The Wind Up

• Fall 2008: Faculty vote to switch from Bb to Moodle

• Spring 2009: 2 pilot groups– Group 1 = 4 faculty, 4 courses, 4 sessions MIV with

Bob Puffer and Jan – Group 2 = 12 faculty, 4 sessions with only Jan– April: 1st week dev. sessions for summer faculty

• Summer 2009: – 30 Moodle courses, 10 Bb courses– Dev. Session weeks: May, June, July, August (<8 per

session)

• Fall 2009: Bb gone, 250 Moodle courses

Place a mark next to any idea that has worked for you.

Lafayette’s Timeline

Lafayette,Warming Up

• Semester long pilot: 8 faculty/16 courses– Two training sessions, 3-4 lunch sessions–Used lunch times to discuss issues,

pedagogy–Mid-term survey to students

• Moodle Support course– Crowd-source documentation: wiki, forums

• Brownbag to report on Moodle pilot and announce Blackboard retirement


Lafayette, First Inning

• Summer workshops– Faculty Quickstart– Developing your course (working session)

• Use pilot courses as examples• Use Moodle News forum for updates• Populate Global calendar - Academic dates• Documentation to ITS site & Moodle by

RSS• Moodle Minute podcast


Lafayette Moodle Support Course

BSC, Curve Balls from the Pilot Groups

• First major faculty session: April 2009 instead of May

• Grand Slam!!...“Faculty Friday” - Piloters share

• Session topics: “Starting Lineup Only”• Slow pitch/fast pitch (session pace)• Share faculty samples - 2 screens• August refreshers (“STRIKE”)• Include sabbatical and adjunct faculty


BSC, Pitches Over the Plate…

• Peer Help: Bob Puffer from Luther College – Pilot 1

• Peer Help: Courtney’s faculty (Michelle – our pinch hitter) - Moodle through MIV

• Food• Provost involved – Pilot 2 & Messages• Last inning July – Faculty decide dates


…BSC, continued

• “Moodle the Pieces” course – references, short videos for help, Q/A (Big Now), sharing area, wiki for pedagogy/sample ideas

• Sessions < 8 people to meet indiv. needs

• Helpdesk Communication - Key


Lafayette, Extra Innings

• Moodle Showcase –May during finals week– Ask for nominations from students

• Moodle museum for generating new ideas

• One-on-one to discuss pedagogical goals and match tools to them (or not)

• Personalized Jing videos


BSC, Next Dev. Session Plans

• Offering for all learning styles– Reference– Quickstart videos– Demo/discussion (bring in faculty to share)–Hands-on development

• Fall 2009, Hope to “hit” 3-4 new topics– Pedagogy first–How-To second


7th Inning Stretch

List one of your favorite development/training ideas

• • • • • • • • • • • •

• • • • • • • • • • • • •

An Empty Moodle Course

BSC Sample

PsychologyMeggers

Laf Sample

EconomicsAverett

Everyone Wants in the Game

• RA training• NCATE preparation• Academic Records• Library group• Advisees courses• PolSci Archives• Student Liaisons

• Search committees• Placement testing• First year

orientation• Accreditation review• Academic

departments• Student clubs• Faculty committees

Staff/Aux. uses of Moodle

Switching from Another LMS

• Opportunity to rethink HOW we do things

• Allows for new creativity• Clean up• Change can be good for growth

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”-Babe Ruth

Moodle Resources

• Other NITLE Instructional Technologists• NITLE Moodle Exchange (NME) course• Moodle Museum (on CLAMP.org)• Moodle Moots• Moodle.org (forums) • Moodle Tracker• Web searches• YouTube videos• Faculty at other institutions

Share your resources:

http://www.clamp-it.org/category/gallery/moodlemuseum/

http://moodle.org/

http://tracker.moodle.org/

Moving Faculty to the Moodle Big Leagues with

All-Star Training

Vet: Courtney Bentley

Lafayettebentleyc@lafayette.

edu

Rookie: Jan PontiaBirmingham-

[email protected]