Welcome: After the School Bell
If you have already taken a Moodle course, please give me an update about your experience since our last meeting. What do you plan to do with your Moodle site? What new ideas do you have? What questions do you have? Please post a thoughtful response and respond to at least one peer. (You will receive participation points for this assignment).
New Moodlers:
If you have not taken a Moodle course with me, please read and respond to the following:
A forum is used to discuss a range of topics; this tool can be a means
for students to express ideas through discussion generation for course
lessons and to collaborate with peers inside/outside of the school day.
Sample of my rules for the forum:
These rules are established before any forum posts. These are the expectations for forum posts for my courses:
1) This is not a chat room. Correct grammar, sentence structure, and content is expected.
2) Read and reread the post question(s) prior to responding to ensure you
have answered the question(s) appropriately and completely. Online
language can be easily miscommunicated. With this said, read what you
wrote prior to posting. All posts must be appropriate for school.
3) Forum posts act as class discussion(s). You must be actively involved
in the forums and chats in order to receive class participation points.
It is expected that you have access to a computer if you take this
course. With this said, you must stay current with the assignments and
posts in order to be certain you are current with your school work and
school "attendance". In some cases, you may be required to post to the
forum with your class at a certain time. You will know this in advance.
You must be prepared for the discussion and discussion time(s).
4) Minimal responses will not count as participation. If you are asked to
respond to a peer or multiple peers at multiple times, you must post a
thoughtful response. For example, I agree or I disagree are not
detailed, specific responses. Why do you agree? Why do you disagree?
Because we are not in a classroom, you have to use your written
language to communicate. You will be notified if your posts are falling
short of what is expected; detailed, specific responses will be
expected thereafter.
Introduce
yourself on the forum. Information you may want to include is as
follows: your name, courses you teach, reasons for taking this course,
and/or any other information you feel comfortable sharing. Respond to
at least one peer post.
Students would be told participation
points will be awarded for this assignment. The idea here is to take on
the role you want the student in your classroom to establish. Try to be
as specific as possible and think about rules you might want to
establish in your online classroom.
[Here is where you may want to post a picture of yourself or an icon that represents you.]