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 Journal
modules. You may have noticed that in Moodle, these modules are missing some elements that you would expect, but include some elements that surprised 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 blogs do not allow readers to comment. This is because the developers and community are still discussing whether blog comments will pull valuable discussion out of a course and into a student's blog (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 student...