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Prospective students

Our community driven web

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Engine Room - main web components

Web 2.0

Web 1.0

Evolution of the Web

writing communities blogs RSS tags Sharing, colaberation web applications broadband bandwidth costs

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

reading companies homepages portals taxonomy owning web forms dialup hardware costs

chat

multi-language

community builder

forum

blogs

calender

Feature and Technology Roadmap Components

virtual learningenvironment

Technology basis

content management system

galleries

Web hostingLinux

Programming language Database

• Web ads

Website task groupings

Content Management System

Database driven Static and dynamic content Content organised in sections and

categories Multiple or different views of content Multiple authors Permissions management

Admin interface for manageing content

Title

Category

Introduction

Read more

Dynamic display of content on home & main pagesAnatomy of an article

Blogs – Web log

Description Journal entries Reader comments Reverse order Frequently updated Archive of past entries

Content Personal online diaries Commentary or news on a particular

subject

Blogs – Web log

Content (some examples) Personal online diaries Commentary: social, academic, etc. News on a particular subject Subject, curriculum, class procedure Tool of assessment Technology and the use in your classroom

Blogs – Web log

Distinguishing features Tags Blogroll (links to other bloggers) RSS feeds Permalinks (enables referencing, Digg,

Technorati) Trackback

Virtual Learning Environment

Software system with educational focus Facilitating management of educational

courses for students Enable social, collaborative interaction Can track the learners' progress

Can be monitored by both teachers and learners

Tools for distance education Supplement to face-to-face classroom

What Moodle Does?

Assignments Quizzes Chats Forums Online Grading Glossary Journal User Profiles

Who’s using Moodle? (open source)

15,700 + registered sites 160+ countries Open University (UK) c.200,000 users Open Polytechnic (NZ) 55,000 users Athabasca University (CA) 32,000 users Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (MY)

23,000 users

Source: Moodle.org September 2006

Know your audience (VLE)

How many children have access to internet?

How many teachers are ready to implement a VLE?

What is the space requirements for uploading powerpoint etc.?

Access vs. technology / hosting model

2004 US college students survey