[Moodle] Maths exams in Moodle
Laurie Savage
sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au
Tue Dec 29 12:07:02 EST 2009
I use LaTeX almost exclusively for long documents (exams, essays,
anything with maths and graphs) so I'm happy to help.
Laurie
Kevork Krozian wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> As we all unwind - or is wind up ? - I have been gifted a Maths class
> for the first time in 15 years. It is a Yr 9 class.
> I am looking at placing all assessment on line ....... this means not
> just multi choice questions, but extended answer, steps towards a
> solution, diagrams , filling in the box , mathematical notation and
> more ....
>
> As I begin to scratch around for ways this can be delivered I would
> love to work with anyone out there interested in joining me on this
> journey including TEX notation, SCORM, and anything else out there I
> need to know about .....
> It would be great to share tests and any other material this way.
> Let's showcase the best of Moodle and delivery of a truly online
> course that students can work through at their own pace and also as a
> class.
>
> With thanks
>
> Kevork Krozian
> kevork at edulists.com.au
> www.edulists.com.au
> Tel: 0419 356 034
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr Paul Chandler"
> <paul.chandler at une.edu.au>
> To: "The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List" <moodle at edulists.com.au>
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:26 PM
> Subject: RE: [Moodle] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
>
>
>>
>> Way back in 1988, when you were 'king of the heap' if you had a 14.4kbps
>> modem and 'emporer' if you also had a laser printer, a certain school
>> (Monash High in Clayton) needed its course booklet printed. A certain
>> John Widmer of Templestowe Tech offered us the use of his laser printer.
>> He suggested that we dial in and use the 'Tempest' BBS to send the
>> file to
>> him for printing.
>>
>> Then I did some calculations - it was going to take longer to upload the
>> files than it would take to drive from Clayton to Templestowe. So, when
>> all the world was 5.25" disks, I set off with a 3.5", drove to
>> Templestowe
>> and printed the booklet!
>>
>>> My first work experience out of school was with Ferranti Space and
>>> Defence in Edinburgh where I tried to assist the bloke who programmed
>>> the moving map displays on a PDP8. I struggled to understand the
>>> programmer who spoke in machine code and assumed everyone could
>>> understand it. It was another ten years before I managed to write a
>>> functional machine code program for x86 hardware.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In my first real job we upgraded from Data General Nova 1200
>>> http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum/machines/Nova12xx.html (or
>>> something very similar) with address and data lights, paper tape and
>>> teletypes, bootstrap program loaded with switches, to the DEC PDP11/03
>>> with TI 733 terminals (thermal printers and cassette tapes for program
>>> and data). The great advantage of the PDP11/03 was that it didn't
>>> use
>>> the unreliable magnetic memory boards (4kb each) and didn't have to
>>> have
>>> a bootstrap program loaded manually. I missed the flashing lights
>>> though - took a lot of the magic away, but as a tech I certainly didn't
>>> miss the Teletypes. We used the computers on drilling rigs to predict
>>> downhole pressure from various measured parameters.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Neil Sandison
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
>>> [mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
>>> Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2009 10:46 AM
>>> To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and
>>> beyond
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> hehehe thanks Kent :-)
>>>
>>> The melbourne museum has a PDP-11 .. I am working on an OLPC
>>> activitity
>>> with the curator David for ACEC2010. I should collect some stories from
>>> you for a digital stories archive I am working on :-)
>>>
>>> Anybody else used the PDP11 or have some fond stories of older
>>> computer?
>>> (Apple ][e .. Acorn??)
>>>
>>> Regards Roland
>>>
>>> 2009/12/16 Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au>
>>>
>>> Oi! Dont knock the PDP-11...I was one of the bunnies who used one of
>>> them!! Fond memories of the tape to tape setup...oh whoops..perhaps, I
>>> am like that bloke in the wheelchair too!!
>>> Its ok to get old ya know..
>>> Just NEVER allow yourself to stop trying new stuff within your own
>>> limits.
>>> When you do stop...THEN YOU ARE EITHER OFFICIALLY OLD OR...errr, lets
>>> not go there.
>>>
>>> hehehehe...
>>>
>>> Kent. (enjoying the hols..we finished last Friday..YAY).
>>> think I will go watch the cricket now kiddies...Go Aussies...
>>>
>>>
>>> Kent Beveridge, St. Brigids CSC, Horsham. Ph (03) 5382 3545
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>>> From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
>>> Sent: Tue 12/15/2009 6:00 PM
>>>
>>> To: Year 7 - 10 IT Mailing List; Year 11 Information Technology
>>> Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List;
>>> Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List; Open Source
>>> Software Mailing List; Moodle in Schools Mailing List; Australian Linux
>>> in Education; 2008 ACCE study tour NECC
>>>
>>> Subject: [Moodle] Re: FW: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and
>>> beyond
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Rob .. catchy song. I wonder what we will be singing in the
>>> naughties. The singers with the KISS makeup brought back memories. I
>>> would catch the 'train' to St Kilda to swim at the beach and race home
>>> on Sunday to catch Count Down on the TV. My friend was lucky ... he had
>>> a BW TV in his fibro cement bungalo.
>>>
>>> I guess I was also lucky .. one of the first to do the VCE (although
>>> back then they just changed the name .. under the covers it was
>>> still ye
>>> old HSC!) .. watching Star Wars at the movies too many times ..
>>> rattling
>>> off trivia as I stood in the queue such as "Did you know that John
>>> Dykstra used a PDP-11 computer to do the special effects". The only way
>>> a school could then get a computer back then was to visit Radio
>>> Shack ..
>>> and soon afterwards, collect safeway receipts to buy bits of an Apple
>>> ][e
>>>
>>> Yep .. Dr Bernard Holker really broke some ground with the keynote
>>> presentation at ACEC2000, I still have the Real Media Player file
>>> that I
>>> recorded from the streaming webcast. Must toss it up onto the creative
>>> commons :-)
>>>
>>> Regards Roland
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/12/15 Costello, Rob R <Costello.Rob.R at edumail.vic.gov.au>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> what an interesting post Roland
>>>
>>> reminds me of a song when another decade was starting
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbE8KWIFnD4
>>>
>>> appropriately named, The Monitors - no doubt a subliminal msg
>>> about the rise of technology in there
>>>
>>> a deep and powerful song, that has lived with me since
>>>
>>> i had no idea that a speaker at ACEC invented social networking
>>> on the internet
>>>
>>> who would imagine that 'sharing messages with small text
>>> boxes to
>>> connect people' would lead to Facebook and Twitter
>>>
>>> unfortunately i wasn't at the event so i didn't get the DNA
>>> injection that makes me get up and dance when this is mentioned
>>>
>>> maybe if we recorded a remix 'what will be texting in the
>>> teenies' it might not be too late?
>>>
>>> (when quoting that brilliant idea, please avoid changing it to
>>> 'what will be texting to the teenies' since it will create legal
>>> complications, unless we add the refrain, 'its for learning,
>>> e-learning'
>>> which doesn't quite rhyme)
>>>
>>> five years after that classic song hit the airwaves, i did HSC
>>> (yes HSC) in Vic ...
>>>
>>> i found myself reflecting last night on what maths teachers have
>>> lost in the usage of technology since since then... i can't helping
>>> thinking we did better, in some ways, in that discipline, when the
>>> computer ratio was 1:20
>>> (http://thinkingcurriculum.decenturl.com/mathswars5 )
>>>
>>> i see now, of course, that i am like the guy in the wheel chair
>>> in the clip, dreaming of a past that is better abandoned to kids in
>>> Kiss
>>> costumes - they are the future!!!
>>>
>>> (excepting the fact that at the time i was 11 and i thought it
>>> was ridiculous even then ... but no doubt i just suffered historically
>>> displaced geek delusions that IT looked interesting; and stuck in the
>>> 80s i couldn't know that it was twitter that i was really waiting for
>>> ... passing notes around the room would go electronic and world wide!!)
>>>
>>> (now back to work : encoding maths questions and interactive
>>> approaches into technology - roll in the wheelchair. i'm on the leave
>>> from the dept, and while you overworked teachers enjoy a break, we burn
>>> midnight oil (more subliminal messages from that band too - Peter
>>> Garret
>>> was really commenting on the online anytime nature of future work)
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland
>>> Gesthuizen
>>> Sent: Mon 12/14/2009 6:51 PM
>>> To: Year 7 - 10 IT Mailing List; Year 11 Information Technology
>>> Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List;
>>> Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List; Open Source
>>> Software Mailing List; Moodle in Schools Mailing List; Australian Linux
>>> in Education; 2008 ACCE study tour NECC
>>> Subject: [Yr7-10it] Weaving stories for 2010 and beyond
>>>
>>> Apologies for the cross posted and duplicate messages.
>>>
>>> Our decade is drawing to a close .. I had so dreamed that by now
>>> we would
>>> fix the planetary climate control system and make inroads to
>>> poverty . was
>>> it wrong for me to hold these dreams of a united vision?
>>>
>>> I am a member of a conference team made up of talented IT
>>> educators from
>>> primary, secondary and tertiary sectors .. some from the
>>> country,
>>> some live
>>> in the city .. just like you all They all share the vision of
>>> doing
>>> something 'wow' that brings together friends from around
>>> Australia. As I get
>>> to know them and like other teams I have worked with, I am
>>> increasingly
>>> impressed by their passion for making this event work and now
>>> share their
>>> dream. I frown at anybody that is too quick to pour scorn,
>>> quarantine and
>>> isolate their hard work or just belittles the efforts they put
>>> in. Anybody
>>> who volunteers to work for a subject association gets my thumbs
>>> up. Read my
>>> tag line below .. it is people that matter.
>>>
>>> At the Melbourne ACEC2000 conference,10 years ago, Dr Bernard
>>> Holkner spoke
>>> as a keynote about an idea and story about sharing messages with
>>> small text
>>> boxes to connect people. With groups pumping money into
>>> multi-media
>>> upgrades. It was our burning questions discussions around this
>>> topic poured
>>> the foundation for the social networking that has since,
>>> revolutionised the
>>> Internet and our thinking about how it can be used in our
>>> professional lifes
>>> and teaching / learning practice. I have been going over the
>>> past
>>> notes I
>>> scribbled on papers presented by Tim Kitchener and Paul Chandler
>>> that helped
>>> to focus my thinking about what I was doing. Things I learned at
>>> NECC2008
>>> from the study tour that I attended with Jo, Jill and Renee,
>>> I am
>>> still
>>> kicking around in my blog.
>>>
>>> What role will you play to help help us weave together new
>>> stories beyond
>>> 2009? What will you take from and where will you be in 10 years
>>> time? What
>>> dreams will you share with the next generation of educators?
>>>
>>> I look forward to meeting up with many of you at
>>> http://www.acec2010.info <http://www.acec2010.info/> in
>>>
>>> Melbourne next year and to everybody, have a safe, Merry
>>> Christmas and a
>>> happy summer solstice.
>>>
>>> Regards Roland
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
>>>
>>> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
>>> <http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au/>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
>>> citizens
>>> can change
>>> the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
>>> --Margaret
>>> Mead
>>>
>>>
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>> --
>> Dr Paul Chandler
>> Research Fellow
>> 'Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy' (Kahootz)
>> project,
>> School of Education, University of New England
>>
>> located at Australian Children's Television Foundation
>> 145 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, 3065
>> e-mail: paul.chandler at une.edu.au
>> Ph: 0400 198 187
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