Teaching Tools on Your Time

Widgets

What are widgets, you ask? Basically, they are easilly embeddable frames of content that you can add to your personal website to provide enhanced funcionality. The best example of an embedded widget is a Youtube video embedded onto your page.

Widgets are a great way to enhance your Moodle pages. Become a Moodle super-user by considering adding some of the Widgets below to your website.

Tools to Consider

• Embed Slideshows
  • Slideshare - Easily embed Slideshare widgets so students have instant access to your presentation in Moodle.
  • AuthorShare - Upload PowerPoints to AuthorStream and convert them to interactive Flash videos
• Embed Video
  • Youtube - The standard video-hosting site. Upload your own video, or choose from existing videos to add to your page.
  • Vimeo - The National Cathedral School uses Vimeo to embed video because of the high definition quality of the videos, as well as the fact that videos with Youtube need to be under ten minutes. Videos up to one GB large can be uploaded with Vimeo.
• Embed Polls
  • Flisti - Create a free online poll and embed it onto your Moodle site for students ot easily access it.
  • Poll Everywhere - This is what the NCS Library uses to conduct polls. Embed a widget on your site to allow users to vote directly on your page. Users can also vote via text message through this service.
  • Answer Garden - An incredibly easy service to ask a question and gather a variety of responses.
  • Forms on Google Docs - Create a form with your Google Doc account and embed it into your website easily.
  • Pollmo - Another free service to let you easily create and embed a poll without an account.
• Embed Documents
  • Embedit.in - Embed documents, such as Word documents and PDFs directly onto your webpage.
  • Good Noows - This reader has a sleek interface, allowing you to access your feed subscriptions in a unique way.