Reflection on “LMS 2.0 - Engaging Learners Using More Advanced Techniques and the Odd Mash-up inside Moodle” by Jason Hando (K12Online07)

Reflection on “LMS 2.0 - Engaging Learners Using More Advanced Techniques and the Odd Mash-up inside Moodle” by Jason Hando (K12Online07)

Jason really got me thinking out of the “Moodle-box” with this excellent presentation. I’ve long wanted to use Pageflakes for my students, setting up some “widget-type” games. The thing is that I really want to keep my students within our moodle page, and not heading off to Pageflakes where they might then drift off to other people’s pages. Even though I’ve embedded flash items in my moodle, I never thought of brining Pageflakes right into the moodle page!

Bringing in the slideshows also makes perfect sense. Rather than sending students elsewhere, all my presentations can be placed right within the moodle page, and they can play it at home for parents as well. Mostly, I’ve been using Keynote for my presentations with students, but that really doesn’t make sense because then I’m the only one with the copy of the presentation.

This little tutorial is a great example of the benefits of going to the K12 Online Conference. These three mashups that Jason showed just saved me hours of trying to learn it on my own. Having the visual (video) shows me the solutions quickly. Had this been at a F2F conference, think of all the time it would have taken to get this little nugget of info (travel, etc.). Here, I have it within 10 minutes and then can go off on my own for another half hour and return to the video if I need a refresher.

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