Goomoodleikiog 4 Students

Here’s a sequel to Goomoodleikiog.  This second video takes a look at Goomoodleikiog from the student perspective.  Why would an online academic suite composed of Google, Moodle, Wikis, and Blogs be helpful to students?  The  argument is that Goomoodleikiog provides them the following.

• anywhere/anytime access
• anywhere/anytime collaboration
• real-world audiences
• 21st century skills – design and technology skills (and collaborative)
• digital citizenship
• immediate feedback/validation
• easy organization of educational work  (harder for the dog to eat your homework)
• a challenge!
• and more

Goomoodleikiog – No, it’s not something I found at IKEA

Leigh Murrell, and I have continued to inspire each other about how technology can be used in the classroom.  Throughout our conversations, we’ve felt that there were an essential set of four tools that make up what could be called a free online academic suite for students.  Each tool provides a virtual place for doing many of the things that typically are done in classrooms.  We called the online academic suite – Goomoodleikiog.  This isn’t to say that these are the only technology tools that we use, but they are the key venues.  Below is a video that we made to illustrate one way that these tools could all work together.

The Academic Suite

Moodle = online classroom

Google Docs = online binder/notebook/collaborative workspace

Blogs = reflection journal/class discussion/sharing ideas

Wikis = polished final products/brainstorming/collaborative workspace