Monday, June 18, 2012

Moodle Resources (especially 2.x)

Decided this information needed updating.

Moodle Community
·    Moodle.org forums  http://moodle.org/forums/
·    Moodle.org documentation http://docs.moodle.org/

Sample courses:   (sample courses to see how they’re put together)
·    Moodleshare http://courses.moodleshare.com/
·    Moodle Commons  http://www.moodlecommons.org/
·    Mt. Orange School Demo (example of 2.x course)  http://school.demo.moodle.net/

Moodle Tool Guide for Teachers: (marvelous summary of functions, ease of use, relation to Bloom’s Taxonomy, from Joyce Seitzinger)
·    1.9  http://www.cats-pyjamas.net/2010/05/moodle-tool-guide-for-teachers/
·    2.0  http://www.somerandomthoughts.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/AMoodle2ToolGuideforTeachers.pdf

Blogs include:
·    Moodle News – regular updates and news about Moodle.  Very helpful.  http://www.moodlenews.com

Hosting – some possibilities
·    http://globalclassroom.us/
·    http://www.moodlerooms.com/markets/k-12/ 
·    Free:  http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=146897
·    Free – collection of free hosting possibilities  http://www.moodlenews.com/collections/hosting/

Tutorial resources include:
·    http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/05/moodle-tutorial-videos.html
·    http://jasonrenshaw.typepad.com/jason_renshaws_web_log/moodle-tutorials-from-english-raven.html
.    New!   http://www.youtube.com/user/Gr8TechTools


Books about Moodle include:

Moodle 2.x
·    Moodle 2.0 First Look, Mary Cooch
·    Moodle 2 Administration, Alex Büchner

Moodle 1.9
·    Moodle 1.9 for Teaching 7-14 year olds, Mary Cooch
·    Moodle for Dummies, Radana Dvorak
·    William Rice
·    Administration – Using Moodle,     Moodle Administration

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting this Fran. We're moving the Moodle 2.x this summer--I will no doubt be dipping into this list :-)

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  2. Glad to help! There are a lot of new fun features.

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