Using Moodle as an Activity Host
Moodle Linking to Sugar Activities
goal
make it easy for students to upload work straight to Moodle servers
with and w/o logins?
reproduce enthusiasm found on Scratch for programming with etoys. turtle art, writing etc
students I've worked with want
lots of feedback from peers
to share their work with peers
to work on projects with friends
later they'll figure out their friends may not be the best people to work with
but best to figure that out EARLY
sharing to be easy
control over who can edit
blame trees to see who messed up a part of a larger group project
grp projects should have no more than 3 people
to have fun
building games is fun
writing is not fun unless it's Alice like then it becomes a game again
variety
structure
to be as lazy as possilbe most of the time
to feel they are smart
SHOW they are smart
nothing in Sugar really makes that easy yet
activity uploads
etoys etc
speak
encourage students to tell stories using speak
encourage creation of FAQs
Turtle Art
pippy
labyrinth
nice for mind mapping but it's clumsy
where to begin
python
why python?
Nubae knows it
hello world
nubae's pyclic?
need to know how to get pyclic into a Sugar install...
it's not in Sugar activities
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/search?q=pyclic&cat=all
it's here
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/pyclic
can we get pyclic into Pippy as well?
nice to get that into Pippy examples
tie the Pyclic data straight into the Moodle DB and tie THAT data into the Moodle Quiz management interface
start here with a basic test prompt interface
sample UI though far from perfect
http://docs.google.com/previewtemplate?id=0Al9mmCKTPBRYdHNtWUN2aWlEZmtnVjZSWXZRZ2trNVE&mode=public
question builder
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhq9ft55_82f46pw9dk
New activity
quiz builder and admin
goal
students write and answer questions
teacher or expert volunteers act as editors and gate keepers
put the onus of thinking on students!
flow description
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhq9ft55_82f46pw9dk
student writes X number of questions as determined by teacher
Question types
multiple choice =MC
short answer= SA
true/false= T/F
essay
cloze
submits questions via Python or other UI to moodle db
student is now qualified to take test
while taking test student can
see if question was student created or teacher created
this will increase interest in the question and who is the student
can suggest better answer
can suggest a better question
student scores for FITB/ SA/ MC/ Cloze can be returned immediately
short answer and essay questions can go back to teacher or back to community for further evaluation
use volunteers to help teacher grade
users
XO users
non XO users
viewing of materials
only logged in to moodle server
child security etc
fields
questions
can we pull the machine specs XO or otherswise
version of Sugar?
user ID
encourage firstname, last initial and maybe weight
IP
should tell us country and city...
maybe that could be the intial log in UserID? last 3 digits of IP?
voluntary
school name
teacher name
class name
notes
nice to have something like this
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Mind_Map_Gallery#Education_Technology
media wiki supports freemind mindmap files
a tool that would allow lots of users to see and build upon other ideas in real time
gobby like but with a diagramming UI
connect the dots
explode certain ideas
derive new documents from base document
annotations are date stamped and contain User ID
--Dennis Daniels 20:20, 5 September 2009 (UTC)