Moodle for New Zealand Schools

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If you are an educator in New Zealand or further afield, you may find the Moodle for New Zealand Schools Newsletter of interest (click the link to download the .pdf file). It is a new initiative, and this is the first issue talks about the growing Moodle in Schools community, which, amongst other things is sharing effective practice via stories from schools who have implemented Moodle, sample courses and screencasts, and is also developing self-directed learning materials for installing and using Moodle. The newsletter also describes what the Moodle for schools version is, and also what it can offer. Well worth having a look if you are already using Moodle or are keen to do so.

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Moodle in New Zealand Schools (Jacqui Land - Moodle Moot NZ 2010)

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This session was taken by Jacqui Land (Jacqui is a teacher at Papanui School in Christchurch), who opened by talking about the Moodle community, and the fact that it is open, caring and sharing. The Moodle in schools site is an NZ Ministry of Education initiative, and a lot of the development has been done by Catalyst.

Jacqui gave a 'guided tour' of the site. The Moodle in Schools home page has a variety of forums, screencasts, sample courses, school stories and a demonstration. You can access the site also to see which other schools are using Moodle which could be a good way to network, and possibly share ideas, and even courses (that are all categorised on the site). You can add videos and other resources for the Moodle in Schools community. The sample courses resource is pretty useful as you can go and get inspiration for your own course design, or some courses can be zipped and download the course (but it has to be used under the Creative Commons licensing requirements).

It is well worth having a look at the site if you are planning to implement Moodle in your school, and you can pose questions to schools, IT folk, etc who have already made the leap.