1. How do you think Moodle can support student learning?
2. Will you use Moodle in your classroom?

I think Moodle can support student learning in a number of ways. Firstly, it can assist students to organise, revist and extend their learning by the teacher organising the resources so that students can access these anywhere and anytime. Secondly, I like the assessment features of Moodle that can encourage students to engage in formative as well as summative assessment tasks and get quick feedback.

I would like to use Moodle more in my classes. At this stage, access is a problem although this is improving. I can’t wait until the new version of Moodle arrives at the end of this year.

Part of the practical part of thworkshop was to respond to the following questions on our own blog:

1. Do you think Edublogs is a tool that you would use as an educator? If not, why?
2. How would you use Edublogs within your classroom with your students?

I think thatEdublogs is an excellent tool that I would definitely use with my students. 21st Century learning is all about getting students to be more aware of their thinking and abilities and needs as a learner. Blogging to reflect on learning is a perfect strategy for developing students’ metacognitive skills. It is also a wonderful way for students to write for a purpose to an authentic audience.

When using Edublogs in my class of I would create a class home page and link to students’ individual blogs. I would ensure that students are not identified in any way but use avatars and pseudonyms. When setting up of a class page, I would ensure that I had administration rights over students individual blogs.

A great workshop!