getting students through the door: blending a self access center with moodle
DESCRIPTION
Self-access centers have long been used to facilitate students with their own self-directed study and are an additional way to support students. While firmly grounded in the pedagogy of social constructivism and the learner-centered approach, self-access centers are time consuming to establish and it is challenging to entice students to utilize newly created centers. How do you drive traffic to a new center? The presentation will time line the creation of the CELESTE Self-Access center with specific examples of how Moodle was blended with other physical resources to increase student use of the center. The presenter will document the establishment of the CELESTE movie club, comic library, and writing center followed by the online resources of a MoodleReader installation, an E-book database, and an online library. Guest access to the online portion of the self-access center will be granted for the duration of the Moot in order for a beneficial exchange of ideas and experiences between the presenter and the participants.TRANSCRIPT
Blending a Self-Access Center
Getting students through the door
Dubhgan Hinchey [email protected] Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
with Moodle
Poster & Flyers
74 Bilingual DVD
200 Subtitled VSH Tapes
Movie Club
68 English Texts
48 Graphic Novels
2 Writing Labs
Lab Room 1
700 Graded Readers (library)
700 Graded Readers (library)
Mashup • HTML website (portal) - upgrading to Typo3• Google Docs w/ “virtual person”•Moodle Courses - MoodleReader - E-book database• Delicious Library • Doodle• iKnow!
Self-Access Course
JAIST Library
Resources online
Delicious Library
Google Form
Excel sheet of Google Form
Writing Lab Form - Responses
E-books & iKnow!
E-book database (40)
iKnow! report
Doodle -top
Doodle - bottom
Coffee Hour