This presentation showcases the benefits of Moodle's social constructivist approach to education using its inbuilt tools such as blog, comments, forum, tags, wiki and the integration of web 2.0 services via the repository plugins for flickr, google docs and youtube. We ARE the web, so lets get social with our learning!

1. Moodle Moot AU 2011
Getting Social with Moodle
Presented by Chad Outten
www.mylearningspace.com.au

2. Road map
Trends
Tools
Demo
Q&A

3. Poll
Which sites have you used this month?

4. Trends
Internet
Mobile
Broadband
Social
User-generated content

5. Internet Activity
Australia 2010 subscribers
10.4m internet1
4.2m mobile wireless1
8.2m mobile handset internet1
81% 1.5Mbps+1
7h+ social media2

6. Unique Visitors
Australia July 2011
Facebook
YouTube
Wikipedia
Wordpress
LinkedIn
Twitter
0 4 8 12
millions
3

7. Why get social?!
Popular
Engaging
Empowering
Constructive

8. Tools
Blog Comment Chat Forum
Wiki Tags Repos Messaging

9. Demo...

10. Food for thought
Tell me & I forget.
Show me & I remember.
Let me do & I understand.
; ;
-Confucius4

11. References
1. Australian Bureau of Statistics, 8153.0 - Internet Activity,
Australia, December 2010
2. Nielsen Online, APAC Social Media Report, June 2010
3. Traffic estimates from Google Double Click Ad Planner
tool, July 2011
4. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chinese_proverbs
Images sourced under Creative Commons license from
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
GNOME_Desktop_icons_2.20

12. www.mylearningspace.com.au
info@mylearningspace.com.au
1300 438 567 (GET LMS)
youtube.com/mylearningspace
twitter.com/mylearningspace
linkedin.com/in/mylearningspace