The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are today running a story in the ‘Next’ IT section of their newspapers on my use of the Moodle program for our online learning at Youthworks College.
The article, titled “Use your moodle to deliver lessons” outlines the benefits of online learning, and documents some of the process by which we implemented it in our teaching.
Here is an excerpt:
Jodie McNeill, priest, lecturer and technology enthusiast, fell in love with Moodle late last year.
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The open source course management system (CMS) is at the heart of Mr McNeill’s theology course for school-leavers, Year 13. Every week he uses the online system to post texts required for the following lesson.
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Students must read them and complete comprehension tests before moving on. At the end, they must enter a summary and ask questions. Mr McNeill then monitors the answers and uses them to prepare his weekly face-to-face lectures.
moodle sounds like a great learning tool mate. not long to go before they head
to africa. ive got that date for the reunion penciled in, i probably wont be in
Sydney before then. I dont have to come to Sydney as often now Amy and I are
just friends now. God bless