May 31st and June 1st was the annual JALTCALL 2008 conference, held in Nagoya, Japan (well, not really in Nagoya since it was a long way outside of Naoya). It was a good conference, except for the transportation; I’ll try to add my notes at a later time.
I talked about using moodle’s quiz module to assess students’ vocabulary levels and learning. There was a nice turnout. I was busy, 
, so I didn’t do an actual count. I would have to say that between 20 and 25 people were in attendance. I heard some good questions beforehand, so I had an idea of the diverse audience.
If you download the handout and presentation from the link above, you can get a good idea of what I talked about. I had about 25 minutes of material to talk about, and with the questions that came up during the talk, 40 minutes flew by.
The quiz module is an extremely powerful tool. Now combined with the completely overhauled gradebook, you can allow students to keep track of their progress right along with you. See you on the forums.
Tags: conference, moodle, presentation, vocabulary