In this chapter, we have looked at the lesson module and the blog module. Both provide different learning experiences for students, encourage independent learning, and can be used to test a host of different skills for students and teachers alike! For teachers, the reusability of carefully constructed lessons is very appealing. For students, a blog that is maintained properly has the potential to yield invaluable evidence in years to come.
In the next chapter, we shall look at a tool that has been mentioned in this chapter briefly as a valuable addition to lessons, the podcast. I use the open source audio editing package called Audacity to create podcasts for my lessons. The creation of Moodle courses tends to drive teachers to look at alternative ways of presenting content to students and the results are often innovative and daring. For example, the website www.prezi.com allows teachers and students to create dynamic presentations that are worlds away from the slide-based formula...