Learning Technologies: Design & Applications

RE: Chat on Moodle

I am basically new at Moodle… so for some of you this may not be interesting! ¡Ay caramba!

• I explore the chat activity and added one to my UBC Spanish Moodle site.
• I wrote an introduction.

You must choose a news that interest you and that comes from Latin America or Spain. Explain what happened… and give your opinion. You must chat for at least 5 minutes and talk to more that one person.

• This is linked with a part of the course in which news about the Hispanic world are presented by students (via the web) every day. This chat would happen at the end of the term, let’s say, when everyone has presented a news.
• My rationale:
  • Our language program is focused on communication and culture
  • By chatting, students are empowered to present their personal interest and it has been proven that some students, who tend to be more quiet in the classroom, communicate more via this type of tools.