Muddling+through+Moodle

Batavia City Schools began using Moodle to provide online technology staff development in January, 2006 and to expand the walls of the regular classroom. Our presentation will focus on the evolution of professional development within the district, reflecting on the journey our district has taken from providing face-to-face professional development using tool software to the online model of technology integration, and then to its transition into the classroom setting. Currently, Batavia has over 900 Moodle users. Through our local BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services), we created our own Moodle site. This tool allows us to sequentially provide an overview of a topic (or weekly session) along with the files, links and activities to support it, and is currently being utilized by elementary and secondary teachers with students, as well as to deliver professional development. Using actual Batavia Moodle courses, we will demonstrate the breadth of current course offerings, as well as the resources and activities used. We will explore the uses (and potential applications) of Moodle in a classroom setting. Our classroom teachers have used this to provide a tool to expand students thinking and collaboration. Furthermore, we will report on our experiences using this as a communication tool between one of our third grade students spending the month of February in India and his classroom here in Batavia. NOTE: If this session is hands-on, we will create a live course for the presentation allowing participants to individually interact within the program, and to experience the collaborative and communication tools that are part of Moodle. If the class can be hands on with each participant having access to a computer with internet, we would like to present in the 3 hour time allotment, if possible.

Directions for logging into the Batavia Moodle Site: If you would need help or have questions, feel free to contact us!

Eileen Ognibene, Technology Integration Specialist eognibene@bataviacsd.org

Jill Feine, Library Media Specialist jfeine@bataviacsd.org

**Moodle Links:** **Moodle.Org** [|http://www.moodle.org]  The definitive resource: message boards, downloads, directions, etc.

**Moodle.Com** [|http://www.moodle.com] Here you can purchase support

Download the program at this site; create great online interactive activities, including crosswords, matching, etc. 
 * Hot Potatoes** [|http://hotpot.uvic.ca]
 * Global Classroom - free Moodle site here and build a class**[| http://www.globalclassroom.us/]

**Access to the EBatavia site ** [|http://moodle.bataviacsd.org] Several courses are opened up to Guest Access

 **Learning Using Moodle** []

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 * Building Educational websites in Moodle**