From LMS to Learning: Moodle and Digital Pedagogy

Sunday 28 Jun 2026, 09:50 → 19:00 Asia/Tokyo

Room A+B (Kobe Co-creation, Sannomiya)

In collaboration with The Moodle Association of Japan and JALT CALL, Kobe JALT presents “From Moodle to the Classrom: Digital Tools and Teaching Practices”

Join us for a one-day teacher development event designed to help language teachers explore, share, and reflect on the use of digital tools in the classroom. This event brings together educators interested in using Moodle for L2 learning.

In addition to invited talks focusing on practical uses of Moodle, the “My Share” session will highlight classroom activities using apps, AI, and other digital tools. Participants will gain concrete ideas and strategies that can be immediately applied in their own teaching contexts.

Jun 28 Schedule.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Check-in / set up

10:30 → 11:15 Moodle 101: The Basics to Enhance Your Ed-tech Skills and Students' Learning

Speaker: Susan Meiki (JALT Business Manager / Okayama University / Poster Chair)

11:15 → 12:00 Automated Grading with Moodle

One of the best ways to reduce a teachers work in Moodle is by using the gradebook. Moodle activities can add scores directly to the gradebook, which then can weighted and tallied up to automatically calculate the students' final grades. At the end of semester, the grades can then be exported for submission to the school's administration. In addition, the gradebook can be made visible to students providing a transparent grading system talk, participants will learn how to add scores to the gradebook and setup the gradebook to reap the benefits of this labor-saving feature.

Speaker: Bill White (Kwansei Gakuin Unversity)

12:00 → 12:15 Break

12:15 → 13:00 Using H5P Interactive Video Editing to Enhance L2 Learning

In Japan, Moodle is widely used; however, its use often remains limited to content delivery, with relatively little learner interaction. This workshop will demonstrate how H5P can support more interactive and engaging learning in the L2 classroom.

Participants will be introduced to H5P and shown how interactive video can be used to teach APA website citation and for a range of EFL activities. This hands-on workshop will present simple, practical ways to incorporate H5P videos into the classroom. helping teachers enhance student engagement and interaction.

Speaker: Ms Deepti Mishiro (Kobe University)

13:00 → 13:45 Picture, then lunch

13:45 → 14:30 Moodle and Mass Collaboration: The IVEProject

The International Virtual Exchange Project (IVEProject) brings together several thousand students from around the world in an 8‑week online exchange held twice a year. This large‑scale collaboration is designed to improve English language skills and develop intercultural competence. Rather than rely on scripted, contrived, or AI conversations, the IVEProject uses forums in a Moodle‑based platform where participants share personal experiences, cultural perspectives, and global issues with a real, global community. In addition to large‑scale discussions, students form small groups for more focused conversation and can participate in “side‑quests” such as an international recipe book, an art gallery, and a World Music exchange. The power of this massive collaboration is that it exposes learners to authentic cultural differences and real communicative challenges with real humans. By engaging with thousands of peers, students challenge their preconceptions, broaden their worldview, and build genuine intercultural competence.

Speaker: Mr Adam Jenkins (Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology)

JALT Kobe June 2026.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Tea Break

15:00 → 16:40 Room A: Room A - My Share

Convener: Shirley Ando (Kobe chapter)

15:00 Improving Assignment Transparency and Digital Literacy Through Collaborative Cloud-Based Submission Systems in Moodle

Speaker: Danyk Amyot

15:20 AI Images and Music for EFL Speaking

This presentation demonstrates a practical speaking activity using AI-generated images and music in Japanese university EFL classes. Using themes from Science Talk Unit 2, students discuss futuristic technologies such as drones, vertical farming, and environmental monitoring through pair and group speaking activities. Students respond to AI-generated visual prompts by making predictions, discussing problems, and answering questions using scaffolded discussion support. Short music clips are used to increase emotional engagement and student readiness to communicate, particularly in lower-energy classes. The activity encourages spontaneous speaking, creativity, participation, and reduced dependence on memorized scripts while remaining adaptable for both lower-level and higher-level learners.

Speaker: Michelle Nemoto

15:40 From Evaluation to Reflection: A Digital Approach to Peer Assessment

Speaker: Nathaniel Teocson

16:00 Pronunciation Awareness Building with English Accent Coach Tool (AEC)

I will introduce an interactive game app “English Accent Coach” (AEC) as a simple activity to integrate pronunciation awareness building in the class which can be played from students’ phones (as individual or team-based). Designed for pre-intermediate level, small size classes, this App builds students’ recognition and production skills of segmental sound rules for vowels and consonants in this free game which features a coach and record function, enabling students to build awareness, autonomy and most importantly intelligibility.

Speaker: Olivia Allanson (Jalt)

16:20 Outputting Forms and Sharing Sheets for Communication Support

Speaker: William Marcus

15:00 → 16:40 Room B: Room B - My Share

Convener: Heather Yoder (Kobe JALT)

15:00 IELTS Speaking Practice with ChatGPT

Speaker: Daniel Parson

15:20 Using Zoom to Connect Classrooms through a COIL Program

This presentation introduces a COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) program connecting universities in Japan and the United States through synchronous Zoom-based lessons designed to promote language exchange and intercultural understanding.

The session will discuss the development of the program, the themes explored during the collaboration, and the educational benefits observed. Drawing on post-course surveys and focus group discussions, the presentation will demonstrate how connecting classrooms across borders encouraged authentic language use through real-time interaction and helped students deepen their intercultural knowledge and global perspectives.

Speaker: Dr Kevin Bartlett (Mukogawa Women's University)

15:40 Using AI-Powered Storytelling to Engage and Motivate University Students

Speaker: Lawrence Pitcher

16:00 Enhancing Accountability in Extensive Reading Book Reviews Using Google Docs

This session demonstrates how Google Docs can improve accountability in book review assignments in university Extensive Reading classes in the age of AI. Today, students can easily generate summaries and book reviews using AI tools, making it difficult to confirm whether they actually read the books they selected. To address this issue, I use Google Docs to track students’ writing processes through revision history across in-class and out-of-class book review assignments. This approach encourages more authentic responses, increases student accountability, and helps teachers evaluate students’ reading engagement. The activity is designed for first-year university students (CEFR A2–B1) in Japan.

Speaker: Aya Tsuchie (Kwansei Gakuin University)

16:20 Reflection

Speaker: Heather Yoder (Kobe JALT)

16:40 → 17:00 Final remarks, then picture, and cleaning up

17:00 → 19:00 Dinner