[Moodle] Maths exams in Moodle
Roland Gesthuizen
rgesthuizen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 30 08:26:55 EST 2009
Welcome back Zach :-)
We are biting the bullet and organising Matheletics for 7 to 9 classes this
year, they just click on a link in Moodle. Yes it is expensive although I
observe that it seems to engage students in some challenging grilling over
basic skill drills. Has anybody had any experience using their spelling
modules?
2009/12/29 Alexakos, Zach Z <alexakos.zach.z at edumail.vic.gov.au>
> Hi Kevork,
>
> I used to teach Yr 9 and Yr 8 Maths and found www.mathletics.com.au quite
> useful. Only problem was it became quite expensive for the school and since
> leaving teaching 2 years ago I'm not sure if they continued with it. Also
> Scaffolding Maths was very handy at the time- they had CDs with tests,
> exercises and lessons. Very useful resources.
>
> I have a full IT load next year so looks like no Maths classes- yet!
>
>
> regards,
> Zach Alexakos
> Nth Geelong SC
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Kevork Krozian
> Sent: Thu 24/12/2009 4:39 PM
> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
> Subject: [Moodle] Maths exams in Moodle
>
>
>
> 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
> >> http://www.stbc.vic.edu.au/ email: kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au "This
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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/> <
> 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
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
> >> can change
> >> the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
> >> Mead
> >>
> >>
> >>
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