Abstract
What is Moodle? The heart of Moodle is courses that contain activities and resources. There are many different types of activities available (forums, glossaries, wikis, assignments, quizzes, choices (polls), scorm players, databases etc). Each activities can be customised quite a lot. The activities I think might be handy when using Moodle in a Primary school is: glossaries (create glossaries of definitions and display them in a block within a course), links (collect links to other sites), web pages (upload class or embed YouTube videos and embed in Moodle web pages), game module, forums, 'Parent' role - give logins to parents using the Parent role to show what students have been doing in class, lightbox galleries (upload class photos) of excursions and projects, notes, calendaring (add in events for, which can be shown on the Moodle homepage) etc.
Even with baby steps, Moodle entered into primary and pre-primary education. In fact, most of the activities used at secondary or tertiary level can be used in (at least upper) primary education, although the content may be not so sophisticated.
The requirements are very simple. Into a lesson, you cannot move to the next step without a correct answer, but the possibilities are endless. Even though the demanding level is very low, the pupils can easily understand what is all about. Still, these opportunities are not used in most primary school in Romania.
The Moodle Romanian community appreciate any examples, ideas for using Moodle in the primary school environment. We meet few elementary school teachers with a couple of ideas in Moodle Moot 2014, Cluj Napoca. |
