1. Moodle Engage your students... By Kristen Canady Bucher Elementary School Librarian Manheim Township SD

2. What is Moodle? “Stands for "Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment." Moodle is an open source course management system. It is used by thousands of educational institutions around the world to provide an organized interface for e-learning, or learning over the Internet.” Source: moodle.org

3. Examples of Moodle Sites… Author Residency Elementary Classrooms Librarians

4. Task #1 How will you use your Moodle page? (or how do you use your page?) Who will your audience be? How will they use your Moodle page?

5. Moodle Features…. Websites Forums Assignments Wikis Chats Digital Drop Boxes

6. Task #2 What do you want to include on your Moodle page? Organization Features Consider your users

7. Clip Art Clip Art Resources: Discovery Clip Art http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/?ca mpaign=CA Open Clip Art http://www.openclipart.org/ Free Clip Art http://free-clipart.net/ CultureGrams Online database - allows you to use their images. Check to make sure that the clip art you find is available for you to use.

8. Connecting with Parents PDFs will ensure that everyone can access your posted information.

9. Happy Moodling! Kristen Canady Canadykr@mtwp.net