I’ll be conducting a 1 hour workshop 30 May 2007 period 5 16:15-17:15 in Meimei-kan room 606 to help teachers use Moodle to get input from their students. This workshop will focus on the Choice and Feedback modules of Moodle. Teachers with any or no level of Moodle experience are welcome. The workshop will use Moodle to teach Moodle, so I can leave the course online for anyone who can’t make it. Teachers can enrol themselves in the course ELP Moodle Training Workshops as students at anytime using the enrolment key man8dog. A few bells and whistles won’t work if you enrol yourself later, but all of the instructional elements will be useful anytime in the future.

This handout may help you when looking at some of the settings that you need to select when using the Feedback module to create and activity. Please email me or try to find time to sit down at a computer in the Gakujikan if you have questions or need some assistance.

Moodle Workshop: Using the Feedback Module

Feel free to join the workshop late or at the last minute.

Need help making your Mac do what you want it to?

Here you go!

Amazon

• MAC OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition (Missing Manual) ￥ 3,420
• Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual (Missing Manual) ￥ 2,781
• Microsoft Office 2004: For Mac Os X (Visual Quickstart Guides) ￥ 3,342

Websites

• First stop: Apple support
• Tao of Mac is geeky, but well written and frequently updated. His Switch page has a list of equivalent applications on Mac and Windows.
• And, previously on OEKS: Learn Excel from a podcast.

Got more?
Reply in a Comment below and add your hints and tips for where to get help with your Apple personal confuser.

Earlier this summer I picked up a Mac Mini for under my TV set at home, so I’ve been downloading tons of video podcasts. In between episodes of Rocketboom, Tiki Bar TV, and Cult of UHF, I also found a videopodcast about a how to use Excel.

Wait! I know you must be thinking just how exciting that is, but really, it isn’t so bad. Each podcast is about 2 minutes long, so no matter how short your attention span may have become after summer vacation it won’t stress your brain cells. It is a videopodcast, so you can actually watch what the tutor is doing on the screen while his talking head down in the corner explains. Each podcast covers one-and-only-one skill in an easy to digest bite-sized format.

Want to know about Page Breaks? Episode 334. Need to make a report only one page wide? That’s Episode 336. Somebody hide your columns and you need to unide them? Right here. This one about finding all of the unique values in a list (like student numbers, for example) would have saved me tons of time last semester.

Anyway, you get the idea. It is a podcast, but you don’t have to subscribe. You can always just search for a tutorial on the website and watch it on your computer right next to whichever Excel file is giving you fits.

Sorry, I can’t do anything about the cheezy music on the videos.

I wrote some basic guides on how to use Crossword Forge.

How to make crossword puzzles with Crossword Forge

How to export puzzles for use on the web

How to ‘export’ puzzles as a PDF

Enjoy … :-)

This online tool converts vCards (files that contain contact info - like the ELP contacts) into CSV files. GMail can then import the CSV files into your address book.

Works perfectly, and is very fast!

http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/

- browse to the vCard on your computer
- select GMail CSV from the Format drop down menu
- converted file is dowloaded to your computer

Then in GMail, import the CSV file into your contact list. Sounds complicated, but it all takes less (much less) than a minute.

Provoc is a free Mac OS X application for vocabulary study. I’ve tested it myself recently and found it to be very useful. It is something that we might want to consider using on the eMacs in the FLSC. If you want to try it yourself, You can download some sets of vocabulary to practice with from the Provoc developer’s sharing website under the tab Vocabulary and practice your irregular French verbs.

Another way to try it might be to use a Provoc file I created from a provisional vocabulary spreadsheet. Download and import the files to allow flashcard and multiple choice vocabulary drills.

One very nice feature of Provoc is that it will print beautifully formatted flashcards in a variety of sizes. Here is a sample of small flashcards in pdf format to use for games or drilling. If you install Provoc yourself, you can make cards as large or as small as you like.

Maybe we can set this up in the FLSC, so students will be able to do it themselves?