MM9 - Moodle MOOC 9

It's Moodle MOOC time again!

Keep tuned for reports on Moodle MOOC 9

Spring Blog Festival - 2015 - Dr. Nellie Deutsch

Hi everybody. Please take a look at the following Smore, and click on the link to the WizIQ Spring Blog Festival to join.

Making a Smore, and embediing it into your Blog page is a great way to include various multimedia files all at once.

See you at the Spring Blog Festival - ¡Hasta pronto!

SBF15: About the Presenters

Uploaded by Dr. Nellie Deutsch on WizIQ Tutorials

Teaching with Technology - Part 5

Understanding the WizIQ System for Teaching

http://www.wiziq.com/course/14339-blogging-reflective-learning

Class 1 - Scheduling a Class

Assignment at the end of the PowerPoint presentation:

1. Update your profile account on WizIQ to 100% ✔
2. Read the announcement by the CEO of WizIQ: http://www.wiziq.com/newsletter/wiziq-the-most-comprehensive-online-teaching-system-is-now-available-for-free.html ✔
3. Create 3 different courses (private, paid, and MOOC) ✔
4. Schedule a class ✔

Process for creating courses is slightly more complicated than the old process but still fairly simple. Click on Courses and:

1. Select type of course.

2. Select if weekly or self-paced.

3. Fill in details on different pages: Name, profile of course, logo, video, paypal, Instructor  and Invite Learners, Review and Publish or save as Draft.

4. Click on Live Classes/Schedule a Class and fill in details. Click on Schedule and continue.

You can’t Review and Publish course without Paypal account. What to do if you have no Credit Card?

What happens if you don’t have any Learners invited?

In either, or both, of these cases you have to save course as Draft.

Free Courses:

http://www.wiziq.com/course/31707-cultura-y-lengua-de-los-pueblos-de-habla-inglés

My Sandbox:
http://www.wiziq.com/courses/course-feed.aspx?cInfo=MP7Z4Xew36%2b43I6kvCzWO%2b03%2fMlpC89DfUg6Dz0Xp5z3qKoEaf%2f7Pz9xvMzN%2bIBfaib5R8VU1eJbjQ%2fGjWDuxqihhZY7JmFM7brnCKEK0yhBEVhWxHqQaQ%3d%3d

Paid Course: missing Paypal account. Saved as Draft. (See attached screen-shot).

MOOC: http://www.wiziq.com/course/54895-camuflaje

Please add the information on the process of creating the courses and scheduling the class and your reflection on the process in a blog post, google drive doc, wiki, or any other cloud-based area and share the link with me. 

Moodle MOOC 4

  Real-life Reflections on the Moodle MOOC

Moodle MOOC 4 Opening Ceremony

Uploaded by Dr. Nellie Deutsch Founder of IT4ALL on WizIQ Tutorials

here

SLMOOC 14

Second Life MOOC through the Looking Glass

A SL Newbie’s reflections on the SLMOOC 14 - Tom Atuto Mate, May 2014.

From the collection Reflections - by Tom Hussey

As a neophyte, I found the SLMOOC extremely helpful as a wonderful introduction to SL.

I attended almost all the presentations, viewing the recordings of the few I missed (due to technical problems with my server) and reviewing every one at a later date.

The SLMOOC was based on the Moodle 2.6 and WizIQ LMS platforms.

http://moodle4teachers.org/course/view.php?id=19 (this link is not permanent).

http://www.wiziq.com/course/39928-second-life-mooc

With a wonderful SLMOOC 14 Headquarters in SL:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Madhupak/110/89/63

The class schedule was packed with live presentations, both on WizIQ and SL, ranging from introductions on the use of SL, through adventure workshops and role-playing language classes, to educational courses using SL as part of the method of teaching. All of the classes were “user friendly”, the presenters offering lots of advice and help to the participants in order for them to enjoy to the maximum their SL experiences.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/152ARWBFhbqPnnKE8CgWqL9MR3MqJXE-EHHFuWdfds4Q/edit

There were a few exciting presentations in Spanish, one of which was repeated in English.

Nellie’s wonderful introduction to SL and many of the presentations can be seen on her Second Life MOOC playlist on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8JUcjyABKxkyil1ZrPM4YYGpBCpaOquV

Following are my personal reflections (both literary and visual) on those presentations I liked, or that caught my attention the most. They are presented at random, but in groups of similar themes wherever applicable.

(I’ve included links to the Youtube videos where possible. These videos appear on my blog version of these reflections).

Introduction to SL and Workshops on how to use it:

How to Set Up a Second Life Account and get to the SLMOOC Building

Self explanatory title. Nan Zingrone explained, step-by-step, how to enter SL and set up your account and find and get around the SLMOOC HQ.  

View the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmMRh25riCA&feature=share&list=PL8JUcjyABKxkyil1ZrPM4YYGpBCpaOquV

Opening Ceremony and What’s ahead

A great introduction to the MOOC by Dr. Nellie and Nan Zingrone with all the necessary information on how the MOOC works, about WizIQ and the Second Life activities and the activities in the Moodle for Teachers course.

View the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN-iUwLrdx0&list=PL8JUcjyABKxkyil1ZrPM4YYGpBCpaOquV&feature=share&index=1

Let’s have some fun!

Invitation to “Dancing the Night Away”. Live session showing how to make your Avatar dance and use various associated objects. Really enjoyed my first dance night in SL.

Camera and Snapshot Workshop in Second Life

This was really helpful for me. Initially I had a lot of trouble trying to handle the camera and taking snapshots.

Here’s the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ETp1EqNhU&feature=share&list=PL8JUcjyABKxkyil1ZrPM4YYGpBCpaOquV&index=9

Get Free Clothes and Make Outfits in Second Life

How to buy and use objects in your inventory. Great for the girls, lots of free dresses, ball gowns, jewelry and SHOES.

Here’s the video by Nan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-SyMWE1LA&feature=share&list=PL8JUcjyABKxkyil1ZrPM4YYGpBCpaOquV&index=2

Baby Steps in SL  Additional video by Nellie on the basic controls in SL. Using the mouse for zooming and the Alt button. Standing, walking, sitting down and going upstairs.

Setting up a Learning Center in Second Life

Building Display Boards with Links to Resources in SL

Walking, Running, Jumping, Climbing Picnic in Second LIfe

Turning an Object into a Teaching Tool

Workshop on small learning objects

Using SL in Education:

Still under construction

The major disappointment with the MOOC was the relative lack of usage of the forums, not only on the Course Feed page in WizIQ but also on the Moodle site. With all live classes available on WizIQ and accessible directly from SL and the recordings available on WizIQ and Youtube, and also the final assignment uploadable to WizIQ, it seemed that Moodle was a little superfluous. I would like to see more traffic (and facilitator involvement) on the forums and the use of registered external blogs for the final assignment on Moodle.

In the introduction I referred to myself as an SL neophyte. Actually I was more of an SL-o-phobe, I didn’t want anything to do with all those “stupid people playing make believe, imagining themselves as super sexy, cool youngsters, partying and living on beautiful tropical islands” (reminds me of my life during the 70’s and 80’s, Ha-ha-ha). Like, Wake Up! Get back to dreary, damp, Doomsville U.S.A. and get on with your real lives.

A few years ago I had experienced trying to enter SL but found the initial learning curve too steep for me. I seem to have a problem getting started on up-hill slopes. No problem if it starts-off slowly, I soon build up enough steam to tackle the steepest of roller-coasters.

Now, thanks to the fantastic introductory lessons, workshops and didactical presentations in SLMOOC 14, I’m no longer an SL-o-phobic neophyte.

Am I an SL-o-phyle?

Ask me next year in SLMOOC 15.

This blog also available as a Google Drive doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SWfb5ygk27fsHIvD0Qcp5Y0FlvdpbAv_beUD-gtUpCQ

Teaching with Technology - Part 4

Making Videos from Curating Boards

http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/690123-Making-Videos-from-Curating-Boards

Creating Videos with Screencast-o-matic

http://youtu.be/CXzGegMzXMk

Moodle MOOC 2 - Weeks 2 and 3

Supernormal: From a scientific perspective - Dr. Dean Radin

Dr. Radin discusses, from a scientific perspective, ancient legends about supernormal powers developed through the practice of yoga. He has been studying advanced capacities of human consciousness for over 30 years.

http://youtu.be/Kh6G5CPoC8I

http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/661095-Moodle-MOOC-2-Dean-Radin

http://youtu.be/rdulFAR0-Aw

Yes! You CAN make your class interactive! - Dr. Rachel Sale


Dr. Sale discussed options such as taking an assignment that requires students to create a powerpoint and showing the change to "create your own powerpoint, narrate it as a presentation to your fellow teachers, co-workers" and use the Upload to PP option. Students are lead to an active role instead of uploading content into a dropbox. She focused on taking a static course with mostly discussions and file uploads to an environment that reaches out to students and asks them to be active learners.

http://youtu.be/VVwwrTy84RE

http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/660955-Moodle-MOOC-2-Yes-You-CAN-make-your-class-interactive