This Course has got me so excited that I've been trying to create an online teaching course like Blackboard using Freeware.
Looks like someone has beat me to the punch.
Much Like BlackBoard, Moodle is a free source teaching tool online. I'm still researching Moodle but this is what I was trying to make using a forum. I got involved in forum about 4 years ago because of a stupid video game so I joined a video game community. Using a free forum (that a 13 year old started) we modified the game using an Unreal Editor 2.0. I'm no PC wiz but I love to learn. After 20 years in the military and taking loads and loads of online courses I'm just starting to understand Psychological Development of Children and Adults. As Baker said in 1937-"Even Froegel understood that people who think that children are only seeking amusement when they play are committing a grave error, for he proposed that play is the first means of development of the human mind.(Play and Child Development)
Where do the Children Play?
Life is to short for us not to use every resource we can muster to teach the next generation. I'm hoping some of these freeware projects will make learning more fun and memorable. Why stress over school when learning is just playing. I'm hoping Moodle will help us with this.
Here is a link to Moodle administrative page that will help anyone understand it better-
I'm still learning so more to follow later.
I am still researching the moodle site for use like Blackboard. I'm really interested in this PBwork site for collaboration for the following reasons-
ReplyDelete1. Documentation can be located on one page with multiple authors.
2. Easy to access requires no downloading.
3. It tracks changes to the Draft (using page history) by author, time, and what they submitted.(very cool).
4. Navigation is much like using folders in Windows which most people are familiar with.