How do you use Moodle to engage learning? Moodle was built to engage! This was part of a keynote presentation at a Flipped / Blended Learning Conference.

1. Lisa Johnson-Bowers
Mentor High School
50+ Ways to Flip With Moodle

2. Contact Information
Email:
bowers@mentorschools.org
ljb358@gmail.com
**Documents from this presentation will be
uploaded to the Guidebook at the close of this
session.

3. Flip Teaching
What is all the hype?

4. The old way ……

5. The Flipped Classroom ….

6. Flip Teaching Is ….
A Bridge, a stepping stone
The beginning of a
tremendous change in
education --- just the
beginning.

7. Where would you look for …
 Information about a broken
vacuum?
 Information about a new trend in
business?
 Information about a historical
landmark?
 Information of how to fix a leaky
faucet?

8. How we get information has changed

10. Traditionally …..

11. Flipping Blooms Taxonomy

12. A new definition of homework
Using Homework to Construct Learning rather than reinforce learning.

14. Definitions
 Flip Teaching 1.0 --- Reversing the
teaching process. Moving the
lecture to home and the homework
to school
 Flip Teaching 2.0 --- Moving from
Group Instruction to Individualized
Instruction by Flipping Bloom’s
Taxonomy and using homework to

15. Moodle Tools
•Embedding
Objects
•Wiki
•Forum
•Glossary
•Quiz
•Lesson
•Books

16. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Embedding Learning Objects
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 YouTube Videos
 Screencast-o-matic.com
 Livescribe Pencasts
 Voki
 Simulations (Phet.colorado.edu)
 Games
** Anything with an embed code!

21. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Embedding

22. Why Use Videos?
 Support for absent students
 Support for students who need a refresher
 Video Answer Keys
 Pre-load Knowledge – the lower level Blooms Info
**Videos & other tools are used to help the learner
construct knowledge so that they can come to
class and USE the knowledge.

23. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Forums
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 Weekend Discussions – Leadership
Skills
 Discussing Laboratory Results
 Discussing Current Events
 Analyzing Essays for grammar or
content
 Introductory Forum – making the initial
connection with students
 Help Forum
 ** Anything that you would typically tell your

25. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Forums
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 Weekend Discussions – Leadership
Skills
 Discussing Laboratory Results
 Discussing Current Events
 Analyzing Essays for grammar or
content
 Introductory Forum – making the initial
connection with students
 Help Forum
 ** Anything that you would typically tell your
students “get into groups and discuss ..” is a

26. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Glossaries
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 Collaborative Glossary of Terms
 Word of the Day
 Quote of the Day
 Types of Animals
 Lab Experiments & Analysis/Results
 American Heros
 YouTube Videos by Unit
 Random Review
 Combine with Forum for a Word Count of
Vocabulary Words (Glossaries can be
autolinked)
** Anything that can be categorized can be put into a glossary.

28. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Wiki
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Group Lecture Notes
Group Unit Content
Brainstorming Sessions
Collaborative Story Telling
Test Prep Guides
** Great for Group Projects!

29. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Wiki

30. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Lessons
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 Self-directed learning of a new topic
 Allow for different learning styles
 Decision-making exercises
 Interactive fiction
 Differentiated revision guides
** The lesson has a branched feature that gives its use
many possibilities

32. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Lessons
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33. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Books
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 Self – paced Learning
 Online Textbook
 Learning Guide
 Review Guide to Provide Support
** A Book can hold all of the assignments for the
entire unit: forums, wikis, quizzes, etc.

39. Constructing Knowledge with Moodle
Quizzes
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 Unit or course exams
 Practice Sheets
 Mini-tests for reading assignments or at the end
of a topic
 Exam practice using questions from previous
years' exams
 Deliver immediate feedback for printed workbook
activities
 provide feedback about performance
 Self assessment
 Student Generated Question Bank(with the use of
the Quiz creator role).
** Quizzes can be uploaded from word documents.
** Quizzes can be designed to take random samples from

42. Final Words …..
 Success comes from thorough
planning
 Analyze your curriculum
 Identify the lower Blooms objectives
 Use Moodle for to construct learning
for the lower objectives AND to support
learning for the higher objectives.
 Create hands on activities to reinforce
the learning in class
 Do it well and it’s done for years!

44. Part II: The Creation

45. Why Flip?
FlippingYour Classroom has definite advantages for your
students.
However, the 'real' advantages are to the teacher!

46. Why Flip?
#1. Eliminate Parent
Questions
Creating videos or documents to
explain projects or program
features will help the parent to
help your student at home.

47. Why Flip?
#2. Eliminate Re-Teaching
Creating videos to explain the
content will help the student who
does not understand the
material immediately. Also, the
videos will eliminate the need to
re-teach content to absent
students.

48. Why Flip?
#3. Eliminate those annoying
questions
Do you have little pieces of your
content that your students
should know and you are tired of
re-teaching?

49. Why Flip?
#4. Become the Teacher You've Always
Wanted To Be
Many of us joined the teaching profession with
the idea of working one-on-one with
students, sharing our love for our
content. However, when we started
teaching, we immediately found that this
'magical' world didn't exist. Flip Teaching will
help to create the world that you wanted with
more one-on-one time.

50. Part II: The Creation
 #1. Develop a Toolbox of Skills.
 #2. Draw up your plan. (Begin with the end in
mind.)
 #3. Create Homework Assignments That
Engage.
 #4. Create Support Materials To Reinforce and
extend.

51. Creating A Video
FREE Screen Recording
Software
Screencast-o-matic.com
Doceri.com
Scriblink.com
Scribblar.com

52. Make a Recording
 Record a PowerPoint, Smartboard
presentation, or anything that you can find.
 Upload the recording to
vimeo.com, screencastomatic, youtube, etc.
 Embed your recording into your Moodle course.

53. Create Your Blended Learning
Plan
 #1. List the objectives for the unit.
 #2. Itemize all of the specific skills that need to
be mastered.
 #3. Categorize each individual skill by Blooms
Taxonomy
 #4. Move the easy tasks to the homework venue
& create learning objects that help the students
build knowledge.
 #5. Take the difficult tasks and create
reinforcement activities or extension activities.

54. Final Words …..
 Success comes from thorough
planning
 Analyze your curriculum
 Identify the lower Blooms objectives
 Use Moodle for to construct learning
for the lower objectives AND to support
learning for the higher objectives.
 Create hands on activities to reinforce
the learning in class
 Do it well and it’s done for years!