I am really pleased that @MoodleDan has proposed TeachMeetMoodle (TMM). May 3rd is fast approaching (Moodle2Beta)and so the Moodle landscape has the potential to evolve quiet swiftly / dramatically, albeit quiet slowly in terms of most school Moodles. Where are we at Hamble College? We are fast approaching our Moodle’s 1st birthday. Skoogle is making a small, but valuable contribution and we are working hard on how to make Skoogle the focal point of our learners academic lives. We are striving for digital competence within our staff and raising academic standards through the VLE. How?
- With the support of @SchoolsICT we have MIS integration. All the students courses are live, we display their timetables and achievement points, we hope to share more soon.
- Developing the learning activities within Moodle and staff confidence in using them. eg Nanagong and Checklists are the latest two.
- Through our continued to work with SchoolsICT, our next effort is to make Skoogle the focal point for parental engagement. I believe that a schools VLE is the most obvious place to engage parents, its there when they need it – we now need to present what they want to see. Back to SchoolsICT who are working diligently on their latest product ZiLink.
- We hope to develop Personal Learning Plans (possible integrated into ZiLink) as the primary mentoring tool for our pastoral system.
Meantime we are looking at Live@edu integration and possible Mahara e-portfolios for the NEW Skills Centre being built on site. We hope TMM we help us connect with other schools wading through these challenging times. If you are interested in TMM, then just drop MoodleDan a Tweet or comment here. Lets not wait 12 months for MoodleMoots to get collaborative Moodle collaboration and ideas sharing into our schools, and lets get more schools to Moodlemoot next year.