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MootJP (2020) -> 告知と交流フォーラム -> Promoting Online Learning -> Re: Promoting Online Learning

- CLARO Jennifer の投稿
"Get a running Moodle" means get a functioning Moodle website that a whole school could use, for a whole month, free of charge, with a one-click installation? That would be amazing! (Have I understood this correctly?)

Questions: Would schools be able to adopt that Moodle website and keep it if they want to, at the end of the virus alert? Also, the one-month period is very generous, thank you so much for this great idea! I wonder if the one month is extendable if the virus alert has not ended by Golden Week?

The downloadable with one click site could include a basic Moodle setup, including how-to pages on everything teachers need to know (mostly just copy and paste from existing explanations). Then we will still need mentors/volunteers to help teachers get up and going, and to help with any problems. We will need people who speak and write good Japanese! How many of us are bilingual?

Basically we need a lot of Japanese Moodlers to join. よろしくお願いします。笑顔

MootJP (2020) -> 告知と交流フォーラム -> Promoting Online Learning -> Re: Promoting Online Learning

- CLARO Jennifer の投稿
Here is Chikamori-san's translated (Google Translate only) post, which has many interesting points:

My name is Amazon Web Services Japan Chikamori.
In light of the recent coronavirus situation, AWS has provided AWS Credits to help educators in the field, so that they can use the cloud resources needed to achieve distance learning. By using this credit, you can experiment with distance education using Moodle (implementation of PoC), implement at each school, conduct actual distance learning, of course, there is a limit, but I think that it can be realized .
Depending on how Moodle is set up and how you use it, you may be able to cover it if it is about the self-restraint period of face-to-face education (about one month?).
These credits can be used not only for remote classes with Moodle, but also for online events (such as the delivery of entrance ceremonies) and the use of Chime, our web conference tool.
Can you contact me if you have any requests?

MootJP (2020) -> 告知と交流フォーラム -> Promoting Online Learning -> Re: Promoting Online Learning

- CLARO Jennifer の投稿

Great enthusiasm from many of you, awesome!! I will keep posting here for the time being as many people are connecting here. 

How about this plan:

1. We make a Moodle demo site, or modify an existing one (there is a Japanese Moodle.org website here that has many things we would want to include) to showcase what Moodle can do - but maybe keep it simple? We want people to be impressed but not overwhelmed as teachers will be making their own sites. 

We could make a dummy demo (as shareable courseware) where a very basic Moodle site has been set up and teachers could use it as is and build on it.

2. We make an awesome video (in Japanese and English?), post it in YouTube, send an explanatory e-mail with the link to the teachers and admin we know, asking them to send it to teachers/admin they know too. The video goes viral and lots of people go to the demo site for more information.

3. Volunteers at the demo site answer questions in live chat? Like the Help section at the moot? That was really useful. Thanks again to Justin and Martin.

4. Moodle Mentors help people in their area get started, working together online (could use screen sharing) or in face-to-face in workshops. 

5. Classes start in April 2020 as planned, but remotely! The spring semester of 2020 is the beginning of widespread online learning in Japan. Korea and China get online too. 

Is Kakenhi available now? I thought they only give funds in April, after submission of a detailed proposal.

Please comment and post questions too. Maybe now is the time to ask who would like to do what. 

How did the Moot organizing team decide this? You guys organized an international conference in 3 days, how the heck did you do that? How did you get organized? Decide who does what? Should people just volunteer for particular jobs? If so, we should make a list of jobs to get done?

MootJP (2020) -> 告知と交流フォーラム -> Promoting Online Learning -> Re: Promoting Online Learning

- CLARO Jennifer の投稿
Hi Matt!

So far it seems that middle schools and high schools (Rob mentioned these specifically) and universities are the target institutions.

We could get a demo site together and then make a promo video to go viral to get everyone on board. We need Japanese support, I hope our Japanese Moodle colleagues think this is a good idea. I am a little worried about their silence.

Hey, would your daughter like to help with editing translations? 笑顔

Jen