Moodle-Teresa+Venton

====A Moodle is an online learning system. It was designed by teachers for teachers. Teachers use it to create websites for students, but other educators use it for adults to participate in online learning as well. It does not involve face-to-face learning. However, educators can upload documents so that all learners can view them. One catch is “To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company” (para. 1). The software is free to download to that hosting computer or company though. Moodles are available to be set up on Macs, PCs, and Linux style computers. ==== ====It is advertized to be customizable and easy to use. I used one once, but I had to dive right in to access information and I was so confused that I ended up not getting to everything I needed to. I was used to Odyssey as an online learning system as we were taught to use it. That’s why I chose to learn more about this. Moodle.org has a tutorial and views that you can choose as an administrator, student, manager, etc. This is helpful to learn about how to use the site and Moodle as a learning tool. I wish I went to this site while trying that interpreting course this summer. ==== ====For TESOL- A teacher could set up a Moodle to communicate with students who he/she taught on a short term mission’s trip, but wanted to keep in contact and keep the lessons going. The teacher could set up further lessons of reading or writing and the students could follow it, interact and make posts. The teacher could also agree to meet on Skype if time allowed for continued practice speaking if needed or wanted. ====

Comment: Cheryl I think that Moodle could be an interesting way to facilitate a class if all of the students had access to computers. It seems like it could be very good for distance learning. It could also be a good way to keep students learning over the summer if they needed some remedial help to catch up to grade level for the fall.