Summary

In this chapter, we saw how to use a wiki for relating material to a big idea, one-on-one discussion, and guided note-taking. The section on big idea wikis compared Moodle's Wiki module to its Assignment, Blog, Forum, and Notes modules. You may have noticed that, in Moodle, these modules are missing some elements that you would expect, but include some elements that surprise you. This is because each of Module's capabilities and limitations are chosen so that they support online learning and fit into Moodle's environment. For example, Moodle notes do not allow other participants to comment. This is because the developers and community are still discussing whether notes comments will pull valuable discussion out of a blog and into a student's notes (recall that a blog belongs to a user, not to a course). To find out more about the rationale behind decisions like this, and to compare capabilities of the various module's, read the www.moodle.org forums.

The ability to create individual...