Moodle User Community Meeting - Moodle User Community Meeting: Call for proposals

NITLE is seeking librarians, technologists, and faculty from participating colleges who are interested in fostering a working Moodle community, encouraging innovation, incorporating best practices, learning about new and forthcoming enhancements, and supporting implementation to submit proposals.

Presenters will have the opportunity to engage with other experts and practitioners in this area at the Moodle User Community Meeting, June 11 - 13, at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA). Participants will have opportunities for direct interaction and group discussion. This meeting coincides with the Sakai and DSpace User Community Meetings. To submit a proposal, please use our online submission form.

Session topics

Topics may include:

• Explore the pedagogical uses of Moodle
• Share best and innovative practices for specific modules and activities
• Share effective strategies for setting up quizzes and the Gradebook
• Clarify the state of the Moodle Wiki module
• Advance the implementation of and/or use of ePortfolios
• Visit and learn how to add to the Moodle Museum, a storehouse of the best modules and courses
• Share best practices for installing, optimizing, maintaining and improving Moodle
• Integrate other learning tools with Moodle
• Facilitate round table topics
• Clarify new modules and enhancements like digital repositories, accessibility and usability
• Apply Moodle on campus, beyond the classroom

Please note that these are only a few examples of possible topics. We would like to focus on three tracks for beginners, technology implementation, and pedagogical innovation.

Poster topics

We are looking for three poster presentations for the open source community reception Wednesday evening. Successfully adopted Moodle tools, campus initiatives, and pedagogical projects would be excellent sources for these presentations.

Who may submit proposals?

Faculty or staff members at NITLE participating colleges are invited to submit proposals for poster and/or session presentations via our online submission form. Please note that presenters are not counted against their campuses' two-person participation limit for this event.

Faculty and staff from participating colleges who know individuals from non-participating institutions that could potentially be strong presenters should contact Karen Lee Davis.

Proposal Deadline

Proposal submissions are due on Friday, March 28, 2008. Please use the online enrollment form to submit your proposal(s).

Attendance Info

Interested faculty and staff are also encouraged to attend this event as non-presenting participants. For more information about how to participate, please review our full calendar entry for this Moodle User Community Meeting in June. The deadline for nominations is March 3, 2008.