In this chapter, we mainly ventured outside of the Walled Garden, that is Moodle, and entered the wonderful world of Web 2.0. This has enabled us to add creativity and more interactivity to our Moodle course by:
Getting our students to blog from their profile page
Embedding a Google Map into our course
Creating a moving and a talking teacher with Voki (for a refreshing change from ourselves!)
Getting our class to tell a story online, with Go Animate
Channeling their literary (and artistic) creativity with Wordle
We've had a lot of fun in the last three chapters. However, if we want to make our Moodle course successful and long-lasting, we need to ensure that everything we put on it actually works for us and our students. Not as obvious as you might assume, but of vital importance. Now that we have got plenty of skills under our belt, in the next chapter, we shall have a look at the practicalities and the nitty-gritty of Moodle!