[Moodle] Maths exams in Moodle
Kevork Krozian
kevork at edulists.com.au
Thu Dec 24 16:39:27 EST 2009
Hi Folks,
As we all unwind - or is wind up ? - I have been gifted a Maths class for
the first time in 15 years. It is a Yr 9 class.
I am looking at placing all assessment on line ....... this means not just
multi choice questions, but extended answer, steps towards a solution,
diagrams , filling in the box , mathematical notation and more ....
As I begin to scratch around for ways this can be delivered I would love to
work with anyone out there interested in joining me on this journey
including TEX notation, SCORM, and anything else out there I need to know
about .....
It would be great to share tests and any other material this way.
Let's showcase the best of Moodle and delivery of a truly online course that
students can work through at their own pace and also as a class.
With thanks
Kevork Krozian
kevork at edulists.com.au
www.edulists.com.au
Tel: 0419 356 034
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr Paul Chandler" <paul.chandler at une.edu.au>
To: "The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List" <moodle at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Moodle] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
>
> Way back in 1988, when you were 'king of the heap' if you had a 14.4kbps
> modem and 'emporer' if you also had a laser printer, a certain school
> (Monash High in Clayton) needed its course booklet printed. A certain
> John Widmer of Templestowe Tech offered us the use of his laser printer.
> He suggested that we dial in and use the 'Tempest' BBS to send the file to
> him for printing.
>
> Then I did some calculations - it was going to take longer to upload the
> files than it would take to drive from Clayton to Templestowe. So, when
> all the world was 5.25" disks, I set off with a 3.5", drove to Templestowe
> and printed the booklet!
>
>> My first work experience out of school was with Ferranti Space and
>> Defence in Edinburgh where I tried to assist the bloke who programmed
>> the moving map displays on a PDP8. I struggled to understand the
>> programmer who spoke in machine code and assumed everyone could
>> understand it. It was another ten years before I managed to write a
>> functional machine code program for x86 hardware.
>>
>>
>>
>> In my first real job we upgraded from Data General Nova 1200
>> http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum/machines/Nova12xx.html (or
>> something very similar) with address and data lights, paper tape and
>> teletypes, bootstrap program loaded with switches, to the DEC PDP11/03
>> with TI 733 terminals (thermal printers and cassette tapes for program
>> and data). The great advantage of the PDP11/03 was that it didn't use
>> the unreliable magnetic memory boards (4kb each) and didn't have to have
>> a bootstrap program loaded manually. I missed the flashing lights
>> though - took a lot of the magic away, but as a tech I certainly didn't
>> miss the Teletypes. We used the computers on drilling rigs to predict
>> downhole pressure from various measured parameters.
>>
>>
>>
>> Neil Sandison
>>
>>
>>
>> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
>> [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
>> Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2009 10:46 AM
>> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and
>> beyond
>>
>>
>>
>> hehehe thanks Kent :-)
>>
>> The melbourne museum has a PDP-11 .. I am working on an OLPC activitity
>> with the curator David for ACEC2010. I should collect some stories from
>> you for a digital stories archive I am working on :-)
>>
>> Anybody else used the PDP11 or have some fond stories of older computer?
>> (Apple ][e .. Acorn??)
>>
>> Regards Roland
>>
>> 2009/12/16 Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au>
>>
>> Oi! Dont knock the PDP-11...I was one of the bunnies who used one of
>> them!! Fond memories of the tape to tape setup...oh whoops..perhaps, I
>> am like that bloke in the wheelchair too!!
>> Its ok to get old ya know..
>> Just NEVER allow yourself to stop trying new stuff within your own
>> limits.
>> When you do stop...THEN YOU ARE EITHER OFFICIALLY OLD OR...errr, lets
>> not go there.
>>
>> hehehehe...
>>
>> Kent. (enjoying the hols..we finished last Friday..YAY).
>> think I will go watch the cricket now kiddies...Go Aussies...
>>
>>
>> Kent Beveridge, St. Brigids CSC, Horsham. Ph (03) 5382 3545
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>>
>> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
>> Sent: Tue 12/15/2009 6:00 PM
>>
>> To: Year 7 - 10 IT Mailing List; Year 11 Information Technology
>> Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List;
>> Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List; Open Source
>> Software Mailing List; Moodle in Schools Mailing List; Australian Linux
>> in Education; 2008 ACCE study tour NECC
>>
>> Subject: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Rob .. catchy song. I wonder what we will be singing in the
>> naughties. The singers with the KISS makeup brought back memories. I
>> would catch the 'train' to St Kilda to swim at the beach and race home
>> on Sunday to catch Count Down on the TV. My friend was lucky ... he had
>> a BW TV in his fibro cement bungalo.
>>
>> I guess I was also lucky .. one of the first to do the VCE (although
>> back then they just changed the name .. under the covers it was still ye
>> old HSC!) .. watching Star Wars at the movies too many times .. rattling
>> off trivia as I stood in the queue such as "Did you know that John
>> Dykstra used a PDP-11 computer to do the special effects". The only way
>> a school could then get a computer back then was to visit Radio Shack ..
>> and soon afterwards, collect safeway receipts to buy bits of an Apple
>> ][e
>>
>> Yep .. Dr Bernard Holker really broke some ground with the keynote
>> presentation at ACEC2000, I still have the Real Media Player file that I
>> recorded from the streaming webcast. Must toss it up onto the creative
>> commons :-)
>>
>> Regards Roland
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/12/15 Costello, Rob R <Costello.Rob.R at edumail.vic.gov.au>
>>
>>
>>
>> what an interesting post Roland
>>
>> reminds me of a song when another decade was starting
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbE8KWIFnD4
>>
>> appropriately named, The Monitors - no doubt a subliminal msg
>> about the rise of technology in there
>>
>> a deep and powerful song, that has lived with me since
>>
>> i had no idea that a speaker at ACEC invented social networking
>> on the internet
>>
>> who would imagine that 'sharing messages with small text boxes to
>> connect people' would lead to Facebook and Twitter
>>
>> unfortunately i wasn't at the event so i didn't get the DNA
>> injection that makes me get up and dance when this is mentioned
>>
>> maybe if we recorded a remix 'what will be texting in the
>> teenies' it might not be too late?
>>
>> (when quoting that brilliant idea, please avoid changing it to
>> 'what will be texting to the teenies' since it will create legal
>> complications, unless we add the refrain, 'its for learning, e-learning'
>> which doesn't quite rhyme)
>>
>> five years after that classic song hit the airwaves, i did HSC
>> (yes HSC) in Vic ...
>>
>> i found myself reflecting last night on what maths teachers have
>> lost in the usage of technology since since then... i can't helping
>> thinking we did better, in some ways, in that discipline, when the
>> computer ratio was 1:20
>> (http://thinkingcurriculum.decenturl.com/mathswars5 )
>>
>> i see now, of course, that i am like the guy in the wheel chair
>> in the clip, dreaming of a past that is better abandoned to kids in Kiss
>> costumes - they are the future!!!
>>
>> (excepting the fact that at the time i was 11 and i thought it
>> was ridiculous even then ... but no doubt i just suffered historically
>> displaced geek delusions that IT looked interesting; and stuck in the
>> 80s i couldn't know that it was twitter that i was really waiting for
>> ... passing notes around the room would go electronic and world wide!!)
>>
>> (now back to work : encoding maths questions and interactive
>> approaches into technology - roll in the wheelchair. i'm on the leave
>> from the dept, and while you overworked teachers enjoy a break, we burn
>> midnight oil (more subliminal messages from that band too - Peter Garret
>> was really commenting on the online anytime nature of future work)
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland
>> Gesthuizen
>> Sent: Mon 12/14/2009 6:51 PM
>> To: Year 7 - 10 IT Mailing List; Year 11 Information Technology
>> Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List;
>> Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List; Open Source
>> Software Mailing List; Moodle in Schools Mailing List; Australian Linux
>> in Education; 2008 ACCE study tour NECC
>> Subject: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
>>
>> Apologies for the cross posted and duplicate messages.
>>
>> Our decade is drawing to a close .. I had so dreamed that by now
>> we would
>> fix the planetary climate control system and make inroads to
>> poverty . was
>> it wrong for me to hold these dreams of a united vision?
>>
>> I am a member of a conference team made up of talented IT
>> educators from
>> primary, secondary and tertiary sectors .. some from the country,
>> some live
>> in the city .. just like you all They all share the vision of
>> doing
>> something 'wow' that brings together friends from around
>> Australia. As I get
>> to know them and like other teams I have worked with, I am
>> increasingly
>> impressed by their passion for making this event work and now
>> share their
>> dream. I frown at anybody that is too quick to pour scorn,
>> quarantine and
>> isolate their hard work or just belittles the efforts they put
>> in. Anybody
>> who volunteers to work for a subject association gets my thumbs
>> up. Read my
>> tag line below .. it is people that matter.
>>
>> At the Melbourne ACEC2000 conference,10 years ago, Dr Bernard
>> Holkner spoke
>> as a keynote about an idea and story about sharing messages with
>> small text
>> boxes to connect people. With groups pumping money into
>> multi-media
>> upgrades. It was our burning questions discussions around this
>> topic poured
>> the foundation for the social networking that has since,
>> revolutionised the
>> Internet and our thinking about how it can be used in our
>> professional lifes
>> and teaching / learning practice. I have been going over the past
>> notes I
>> scribbled on papers presented by Tim Kitchener and Paul Chandler
>> that helped
>> to focus my thinking about what I was doing. Things I learned at
>> NECC2008
>> from the study tour that I attended with Jo, Jill and Renee, I am
>> still
>> kicking around in my blog.
>>
>> What role will you play to help help us weave together new
>> stories beyond
>> 2009? What will you take from and where will you be in 10 years
>> time? What
>> dreams will you share with the next generation of educators?
>>
>> I look forward to meeting up with many of you at
>> http://www.acec2010.info <http://www.acec2010.info/> in
>>
>> Melbourne next year and to everybody, have a safe, Merry
>> Christmas and a
>> happy summer solstice.
>>
>> Regards Roland
>>
>>
>> --
>> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
>>
>> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
>> <http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au/>
>>
>>
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>> can change
>> the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
>> Mead
>>
>>
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> 'Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy' (Kahootz) project,
> School of Education, University of New England
>
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