Presentations

In this presentation the two speakers, a teacher of Chinese and an English teacher, will talk about their experiences with using Moodle from a beginner's point of view.

Laura Kudo will talk about her experience with transitioning from textbook-based classes to Moodle. She will speak about what motivated her, who had basically no knowledge of Moodle, to change. She will give a brief tour of one of her classes, explain the activities and the quizzes in the course, how she created them, what was challenging for a beginner and the rewards of her work.

Ming Qu will talk about a Moodle-delivered Chinese language speaking test that was developed as a term-end achievement test to evaluate the progress and what had been attained by students during the course. First, she will explain the process of the test’s development, issues regarding the testing of speaking in general, and administration of the speaking test. Following that, the speaker will talk about the test-takers’ attitudes and perceptions of the Moodle-delivered speaking test. This presentation is expected to provide information to help teachers to conduct speaking tests in large-scale language classes.

The speakers hope that with their presentation they can motivate teachers who albeit having interest in Moodle feel reluctant and/or insecure to try doing it.