Teaching with Moodle 2012-2013: Courses and Activities

Along course 2012-2013 I taught two main subjects: Biology-Geology and Physics-Chemistry. I had four groups from grade 9th (3º ESO) and two groups from grade 10th (4º ESO). The four groups of grade 9th were divided into two biligual groups (English language) and two non-biligual groups (Spanish and Galician languague). The full picture is: Grade …

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Mahara, WordPress or GoogleApps? What’s the best choice for a School ePortfolio?

My School is planning for the next course to perform an experiment based on the use of ePortfolios. In the Spanish Educational System exists in grade 7th a subject called ‘Proyecto interdisciplinar‘ literally translated into English as ‘Interdisciplinary Project’ and commonly known as PI. The School plan for this one-hour-a-week subject is to introduce students in the …

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Taller Moodle2 Avanzado

Durante los días 4, 9, 11, 16 y 18 de abril 2013 impartí el Centro Social de NovaCaixaGalicia de Vigo un Taller de Moodle2 Avanzado con una duración de 10 horas. A este taller, que se impartió con el Servidor Moodle del Proyecto ESCOLAS,  asistieron la mayoría de los asistentes a Taller de Moodle Básico …

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Installing WIRIS in Moodle 1.9.x for our Math Teachers

Math teachers in Colegio Apóstol are eager to use Wiris integrated into our current Moodle 1.9.x platform. They say Wiris is the 2nd most powerful E-tool they’ve tested so far to improve the quality of their teaching. The first one is of course our beloved Moodle VLE 😉 I was quite reluctant to install commercial …

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Plan Moodle para mi centro

En mi centro educativo utilizamos Moodle en Secundaria (ESO y Bachillerato) desde el año 2009. Al principio sólo la usaba yo pero poco a poco, otros compañeros fueron interesándose e incorporando Moodle a sus materias. En este borrador recojo algunas ideas iniciales que rondan en este instante por mi cabeza. Cuando el Colegio me propuso …

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Twitteando las jornadas sobre ‘Competencia Social’

Durante los días 7 al 9 de septiembre de 2011 los profesores de Secundaria del Colegio Apóstol Santiago tuvimos unas jornadas sobre el desarrollo de la ‘Competencia Social‘ y la mejora del clima escolar. El curso fue impartido por Juani Mesa, Doctora en Psicología Evolutiva y Educación. Durante esos tres días asistí a las sesiones sin …

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Exchanging ‘Database Activities’ among Moodle courses

This is a howto about exchanging databases among Moodle 1.9.x courses. If you made a database activity in one course and them you want to export it to another course in the same or different server you should proceed in this way: a.- Go to a tab menu called ‘Presets’ in database activity b.- You …

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