Hi there, my first post under VLN please excuse any mistakes I might make!
I teach Art, Music and ICT at a Decile 1 Intermediate School in the Far North. For this year I am also one of two ELTs at our school. I am keen to get into e-learning to a greater level than previously, at this stage in my classes, hopefully eventually further within our school.
For Term 2 I plan to teach my students how to make their own comic strips. Different to last year I want to have all work web based, meaning no work book, no pens or pencils (at least not dictated by me!). I have got a general idea of how I will structure my sessions, I also blog and have run a wiki previously, but I need some advice in how I go about setting this unit up in the web.
Our school has a student homes for each student, but I don't want to be tied to school to do my marking etc. So I am looking for a way to put a site up for free which will have my topic and background info, the brief for this term etc. I plan to include links/video clips to relevant sites and activities. I also need a space, well a lot of spaces, for my student to post their work - I teach approx. 200 students. Ideally this would be grouped into classes, with each student having their own private folder (meaning they and I can access it only).
To complicate matters further, I would like to be notified of work students have posted as completed, and ideally, a student could only move on to the next activitiy once I had checked their submitted work and given the ok.
I'm not asking for much, am I? lol Any advice would be immensely appreciated!!!!!! Many thanks in advance, Monika
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It sounds like you need a learning management system. Have you looked at Moodle? There is a Moodle group here in the VLN.
Just realised this might have been better under discussion sorry!
Thanks, Jane, I agree that a LMS would be good, however, I can't see that happen within the next month. Any way of doing the above without?
Thanks for putting me onto the Moodle group (is there a directory about all different groups somewhere?!)
Kia ora Monika
I was also going to suggest Moodle to you. We use it for the VLN Primary. Our Moodle is used to support our online classes but schools are also welcome to use it to create their own class spaces & resources, or just take it for a test drive. You can self-register onto our Moodle site, then request a space to develop. Happy to skype with you if you want to have a closer look.
Rachel :-)
Hi Monika
Have you looked at Google Sites at
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2F&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2F&service=jotspot&passive=true&ul=1
If you click on 'learn more' in the above page, it has a brief intro about it that might whet your appetite.
I know several primary teachers at a school who have used it successfully for what you are saying you want.
Cheers Ian
Hi again Monika,
online LMSs are available. Glen Davies on the CORE newsletter mentions 'Open Class', with links:
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4ac5b170022f98e9de26c12f4&id=d33c039252&e=b800f11cc2
Also, I haven't used edmodo, but it is popular and free:
http://www.edmodo.com/
Cheers I