1. Teaching & Learning
with
Vienna International School 08.06.12

2. First just want to
say

3. US – Irish origins. Raised and
educated, Boston, MA, USA Who is this guy
anyway?
Educator, Student, Technologist
with two decades of living,
learning and teaching on four
continents.
A new member of the Vienna
international School joining you
in August, 2012.

4. Pre arrival enquiries…

5. Pre arrival enquiries…

7. US – Irish origins. Raised and
educated, Boston, MA, USA Who is this guy
anyway?
Educator, Student, Technologist
with two decades of living,
learning and teaching on four
continents.
A new member of the Vienna
international School joining you
in August, 2012.

8. Essential Questions:
•What is Moodle?
•Why are we having Moodle?
•How will Moodle be advantageous
for the Vienna International School
Community?

9. What is Moodle?
Moodle is an
electronic learning
system, also known
as a Course
Management System
(CMS) or
Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE).

10. What is Moodle?
Moodle is an acronym. It stands
for:
Modular Object-Oriented
Dynamic Learning Environment.

11. What is Moodle?
Moodle is an interactive
system built on the
social constructivist
concept that
learning
communities can
acquire knowledge
through interacting,
collaborating, and
sharing.

12. Why are we having Moodle at
VIS?
To broaden our students educational experience and
offer them optimal opportunities for learning

13. Why are we having Moodle at VIS?
To enhance and augment existing best
practices
To empower learning and teaching in new and
additional ways…

14. Why are we having Moodle at VIS?
To further facilitate our ability to communicate,
collaborate, and share as a Learning Community
"None of us are smarter than all of us“ –Sir Ken Robinson

15. Why are we having Moodle at VIS?
To synergize and leverage the use and application
of our various ICT systems and tools

16. How may Moodle be advantageous to our VIS
Community?
• Can provide a “common ground” upon which all:
educators, students, parents, support staff can meet,
communicate and collaborate
•Can be used to further build and expand classroom
community – “flattening or blending” models
•Facilitate student, educator, and parent interactivity
and teamwork
• Support student development of independent and self
-directed learning
•Can build legacy within the community –a collective
knowledge bank

17. Why are we having Moodle at VIS?

18. How may Moodle be advantageous to the VIS
Community?
And…

19. Students

20. Technology is used by people in
many different ways the
emphasis is on Utility

21. How may Moodle be advantageous to the VIS
Community?
VIS Educators
VIS staff?
Parents?
Students?

22. What is Social Constructivism? Briefly...
• People actively construct new knowledge as they interact with their
environment.
• Everything you read, see, hear, feel, and touch is tested against
your prior knowledge
• Knowledge is strengthened if you can use it successfully in your
wider environment.
• You are not just a memory bank passively absorbing information,
nor can knowledge be "transmitted" to you just by reading
something or listening to someone.
• Learning is particularly effective when constructing something for
others to experience
• Social Constructivism extends the above ideas into a social group
constructing things for one another, collaboratively creating a small
culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings.
• More at http://docs.moodle.org/en/Philosophy

27. http://moodle.org/sites/

28. Humboldt State Moodle has 12,288 courses
and 42,121 users.
Moodle was designed to help foster
online learning communities. It has an The Open University (OU) in the
active development and support UK has converted their courses
group (very important for open-source to MOODLE for their 250,000
projects) and has users in over 150 students.
countries.
Moodle was built following social
constructionist pedagogy as a virtual UCLA, UC-San Diego & Smith College
learning environment. are now using Moodle, and many are
piloting it (Lafayette, Bennington...)
SEE MY BLOG
150,000 registered users on moodle.org
moodle.org/stats/

63. Credits /Sources
• Ken Ronkowitz
• Shelia Norton