iMoot 2011

1. iMoot 2011
Being MCCC.
My experiences as Mentor Assesor
Maryel Mendiola

2. MCCC
I decided to take Moodle Certification at the beginning of 2009. In my country there is not a Moodle
Partner, that's why I was assigned to take it in Moodle Partner Central HRDNZ
In those days, English was the only way to take Moodle
Certification scheme, and I did it so.
Moodle Certification scheme in HRDNZ contains 8 wonderful
training courses (MoodleBites), 1 MCCC course and one
practice area for candidates.
Taking certification this way is amazing, it leads us to
rediscover Moodle virtues. And that is just what (all we)
LatAm teachers need
Haidee Foxwell our Global Moodle Course Creator Certificate
coordinator, she was my mentor while I was candidate, and she was
my Mentor when I became Mentor for LatAm. Haidee Foxwell was
Mentor of Mentors. And I developed skills and growth in this roll
learning from her.
Note: LatAm is used to mean Latin America

3. Alongside the MCCC mentor assessor. MoodleBites has a Tutor for
8 training courses. I was lucky because Stuart Mealor was my
Tutor, he is well known international Moodle and e-learning figure,
he is the global Moodle Certification Manager too.
By that time I was created a LatAm teachers social network, I told and encourage them to enroll to
Moodle Certification along with me. But there was a big problem: most of LatAm teachers don't speak
English. Language was a huge impediment.
Larry Lugo MTC 1.5 M'onico Briseño MTC 1.7
Since 2007 to 2009 there were only two certified LatAms: Larry Lugo from Venezuela and
Monico Briseño from México.

4. When two minds converge as one
Once I got my MCCC StuArt Mealor invited me to be co-facilitator in MoodleBites. Of course I accepted
immediately. That allowed me to observe courses since a new and optimal angle and without time
pressure.
In That process two minds converged in one goal: MCCC in spanish for LatAm (I tried to imagine my fellows
happiness when they noticed that impediment was going to be broken).
And that was it!
I began to translate and Invited Monico Briseño to help us translating 1, 3, 5, and number 7 MoodleBites
courses in the first translating version. Up today there is a new translating version.
Since then I'm MCCC Mentor Assesor for Latin America. Roll supported with my 28 continuous years
teaching in University level
MCCC in Spanish
For LatAm
MCCC en Español
Para LatAm

5. Nowadays there are more than 30 Certificates for Latin America and one more in process (apr 2011).
Every new period each recently MCCC was invited to be co-facilitator only for one week, we invited
the best of each run with high skills to become a MoodleBites co-facilitator and and could work
side by side with me

6. Knowledge is produced fixing mistakes
Everyday is a great experience as Mentor Assessor, I learn too much from knowledge produced from mistakes
and it is found in Practice Area, where some candidates use to copy and paste some javascripts or flash. Suddenly
a label doesn't allow them to edit the content
The hardest issues are outcomes, Databases, Lessons and Quiz specially cloze questions. And candidate
questions are the source for mini tutorials produced by MariaModole (a virtual character for helping LatAms with
resources and tutorials)
You can find MariaMoodle resources in:
http://moodleblog.mmendiola.net/
http://www.slideshare.net/mariamoodle
http://issuu.com/mariamoodle

7. Commitments as MCCC Moodlers acquire
Achieve Certification commits us to be leaders in our respective communities, create tutorials,
repositories and keep helping Moodle.org community.
Being MCCC Mentor Assessor requires me to
encourage new certificated moodlers to engage with
the Moodle community.
Belong to Moodle international community makes me
feel pride.
Being MCCC encourage us to reach a Goal:
Become a particularly helpful moodler
Or even better 'Moodler de gran ayuda'

8. T H A NT H A N
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