Topic Overview

The following series of activities give a quick overview of Moodle "Lesson" tool and demonstrates some of the several lesson features so you can appreciate how the lesson tool can transform your teaching experience. The "Building a Moodle Lesson" activities include:

• A 1-hour Introductory Lecture (offered face-to-face, is recorded and made available online)
• Online lessons (developed using the lesson tool)
• A Group "Try-it-out exercise" (Using lesson tool and Wiki tool)
• A "Best Practices forum".
• A "Teaching with Technology Pros" forum.

By the end of this topic you should be able to:

1. articulate and appreciate affordances provided by the lesson tool and strategies for using it as an online teaching and learning tool;
2. articulate appropriate group dynamics for productive online collaboration through developing a knowledge resource collaboratively;
3. participate in a social networking environment to technically support peer participants (reading and responding to issues raised in forums, writing consisely and clearly);
4. use wikis as information sharing and collaboration tools;
5. make meanings and summarise online discussions and contributions;
6. Design and adapt an online lesson/activity for use in own context

Now let us get to the lesson: