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A few weeks ago, a Social Media Cheat Sheet was doing the round. A nice visualization of the pro’s & cons of each social media channel, but with a business/marketing focus. I thought I should do one for social media use in education. However for most of the teachers I work with, our Moodle (EIT Online) is still their primary online teaching environment. So instead I set out to create this poster size guide for teachers, allowing them to compare the functionality and pedagogical advantages of some standard Moodle tools, adding a column to indicate how tricky the tool is to set up.
Hope you find it useful. Would appreciate your feedback.
I spend a lot of time exploring educational technology and social media, particularly looking at how they can be used for teaching & learning. This blog is a place to collect what I find.
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Rheinard Korf
May 24th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Great job.
Thank you very much for the effort!
- rheinard
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May 24th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
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Jason
May 24th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
wow…very cool… nice work!
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May 25th, 2010 at 1:48 am
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Jose Alvarez
May 25th, 2010 at 2:24 am
Great job. if you authorize me, could you translate into Spanish? respecting all the credits and then sending you a copy.
Excuse my English, I assure you that the translation would make a professional translator
Thanks in advance.
Jonesytheteacher
May 25th, 2010 at 2:32 am
Awesome. Fantastic for Moodle development sessions at school, or just a quick ready reckoner. Thanks for sharing!
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Jean
May 25th, 2010 at 9:33 am
Hi Joyce – Donna just put me on to this! Brilliant… can we print it out and give it to staff?
Joyce Seitzinger
May 25th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Hi Jean, yes please! That’s exactly why I’ve created it – make all of our jobs a little easier (edtechs & teachers). It’s under creative commons license and I’ve designed it for A3 size.
Joyce Seitzinger
May 25th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Hi Jose, oh I’d be honoured to have it translated. You MUST send me a copy though! I’ll email you
Joyce Seitzinger
May 25th, 2010 at 11:25 am
Thanks for compliment, Jason!
Joyce Seitzinger
May 25th, 2010 at 11:26 am
My pleasure Rheinard!
Joyce Seitzinger
May 25th, 2010 at 11:28 am
You are too kind Jonesytheteacher & all! I’m pretty pleased with it myself, as one of our teachers just setting out in technology, saw it on my desk and immediately grabbed a copy. So it’s doing what it’s supposed to do
Catherine
May 25th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
This is really helpful. Thank you for creating it.
kate coleman
May 25th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
brilliant – online pedagogy for the right brainers! finally!!!
Katy
May 25th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Fantastic cheat sheet on moodle – Thanks Joyce!
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May 25th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
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Tomaz Lasic
May 25th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Excellent! Thank you Joyce for producing this, just tweeted to all & sundry about this
Is it OK to include this as a resource at Teaching & Learning with Moodle course at Moodle.org ? Let me know please, Twitter DM probably best.
Regards
Tomaz
Costas
May 25th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Excellent sheet. Our teachers will definitely benefit by this tool. Thanks for sharing.
Ian U
May 25th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Hi Joyce! This is great – would you perhaps consider making it (or the source file(s)) available under a Creative Commons License, so that those of us with custom Moodle installs (or who would like to localise the language or phraseology) could modify it? No problem if not!
Nice one!
Ian.
Martin Vögeli
May 25th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
May I get the source file to create a German translation?
Harald
May 25th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Thank you for the job you have done of developing this great tool.
Can I be allowed to translate it into Norwegian, and share it out to the teachers in our schools?
I work as the ICT co-ordinator between four municipalities in Norway and we are using Moodle in 20 primary schools. http://pdl.asp-hedmark.no/
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Bart Bonamie
May 25th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Fantastic work indeed, Joyce! Now that the academic year is over, I have some time to (finally!) work out a project for implementing Moodle at our department – this is certainly a resource I’ll share with my colleagues. Thanks a billion for the hard work!
Arien
May 25th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Really useful, clear guide. Came to it from twitter and have linked from our ‘top tips’ page. many thanks for sharing.
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May 25th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
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French moodleuse
May 26th, 2010 at 6:33 am
Hi,
It’s fantastic! Can I translate this into french and send you a copy?
Thanks a lot for you response
A french moodleuse
Veronika
May 26th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Ms. Seitzinger
I am so happy to found you and your blog. Your/this resource tool is incredible and I would love to share it with my fellow Moodle using teachers.
Thank you
Eric Johnson
May 26th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Very nicely done. Thanks for developing. I’m giving a copy to my principal!
Ewout ter Haar
May 26th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Very nice! Would you consider distributing the “source code” (the file in the original format)? That would make it much easier to translate. I would like to translate it into portuguese.
mandy
May 26th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
great stuff Joyce! (hate to think how long it took you to do)
M
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May 26th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
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Kathylyn Sedgwick
May 27th, 2010 at 1:29 am
I found this VERY helpful. Wish I had found it in August.
Richard D Solomon, PhD
May 27th, 2010 at 2:26 am
Joyce, I am in the process of developing a moodle course for Judaic Studies educators and trainers. May I include your chart in my course in the glossary? If so, kindly let me know how you wish to be cited. Thank you so much. The highest compliment a teacher can receive is the praise from another seasoned professional. You have my praise. Richard
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May 27th, 2010 at 8:18 am
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The cheat sheet on Moodle is a sure innovation
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May 28th, 2010 at 5:48 am
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Syamsul
May 28th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
This is very very helpful! Thank you for sharing!
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Bruce
May 28th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Thanks Joyce – excellent resource.
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Dan Cox
May 30th, 2010 at 2:05 am
That’s fab, thanks for sharing!
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Sarolta
May 30th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Love it and would like to translate it to Slovene if you allow me to. I’ll send you a copy.
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Joyce Seitzinger
May 31st, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Dear Richard Solomon, thanks so much for your kind words. High praise indeed, and much appreciated.
Joyce Seitzinger
May 31st, 2010 at 12:06 pm
To everyone who has offered to do translations, I am in the process of sending out the source files to all of you.
Thanks for contributing to the Moodle Community! (We rock!)
norbert boruett
June 1st, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Great tool, helps the teacher in deciding on the tools to use within the Moodle environment
Gary Hollingsbee
June 7th, 2010 at 5:12 am
Really impressive. We’re moving to using Moodle at the two schools in our federation. We’re currently using a vle which isn’t allowing us to easily do basic stuff like set and mark assignments. Obviously our teachers will need to learn about the key features of moodle. This chart will be invaluable. Thank you for sharing such good work.
Simon Brown
June 7th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Bojan and Simon at SkillsTech Australia – checking out Joyce’s Moodle Guide for Teachers at http://www.flickr.com/photos/stonemasonry/4676421751/
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Artem
June 9th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Send me please source file for translation. Thanks!
Jenny Narborough
June 12th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Great tool, and thank you for sharing your hard work. We would really appreciate the source file and of course you will be acknowledged as the originator.
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Greg
June 12th, 2010 at 8:57 am
This is a great resource Joyce. Did you create it in Adobe or some other software then convert it. Would you be willing to share the orginal file so I could add/edit the file for our own purposes.
Thanks
AnneD
June 13th, 2010 at 1:06 am
Your Moodle Tool Guide is great. It prints well into A3 size too.
I have used embedit.in and added it to a Moodle resource blog that I am building for Coventry University (URI in another field in this form). I have given credit to you and included the link to your source but if you do not like the way that I have used the image, please email me and I will remove it.
Geoff Young Wodonga TAFE
June 15th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Joyce,
Many thanks. This is a prime example of ‘keeping it simple’. Thanks so much for a wonderfully simple to use & understand guide that all our staff over here love.
חפציה
June 16th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Hi,
I’ve translated your awsome poster into my language- Hebrew. Can I use it in my courses? Can I pass it to other Hebrew Moodlers?
Thanks
חפציה
June 17th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Sorry, I understood that the URl couldn’t work. How can I upload it so you can see it?
Matthias Heil
June 17th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Excellent – thanks ever so much!
Carl
June 17th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Awesome!
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Giles Lancaster
July 8th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Great stuff can’t thank you enough working on a presentation for teachers this is exactly what they need to help them through the initial stages. Clarified my thinking as well.
Giles Lancaster
July 8th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Great stuff can’t thank you enough, working on a presentation for teachers this is exactly what they need to help them through the initial stages. Clarified my thinking as well.
Jan
July 12th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
C’est génial;do you happen to have a French version?Super
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Victoria A Castrillejo
July 17th, 2010 at 5:00 am
Is the Spanish version already available? If not, I would love to help translating it.
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giri
August 11th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Really a great tool. Does anyone knows if there is a similar sheet for business?
Thanks
Sarah Stewart
August 17th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Thought you might like to know I am using this resource in a workshop I am taking in Karachi, Pakistan which is also being broadcast via Elluminate to countries in Africa…so it really is travelling far and wide
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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb
August 29th, 2010 at 5:08 am
Great reference chart that’s very attractive, too. I use a moodle platform customized for online learning communities that occur outside the formal classroom and curriculum. We are always seeking to engage the high school age student ambassadors in leading and supporting group learning and social bonding activities with other students in the community but have a nervous technologist who is concerned about giving too many folks editing controls.
I have never thought about the database as a direct deposit opportunity by students; do they add materials directly or rely on the instructor/facilitator to upload their resources? We have used wikis for all student members to populate with links, pictures, narrative, podcast links, etc. or books that we community facilitators upload student- and other generated resources into. But the book is a chokehold on info flow.
We use the discussion forums for Jams (our term for purposeful and sustained group discussion over a couple of days for a national audience; shorter time frames for smaller and geographically cohesive groups) and chats for ‘cruising-level’ social interactions. The wiki, glossary, and lightbox gallery (with links to Picasa and Flickr to display students’ photos of their hometowns and projects) are the collaborative and showcase tools that we use most often. I have not used the lesson, assignment, or quiz tools at all.
The tool guide is very helpful. I will use it myself and to acquaint others with the power of different moodle tools. Thank you.