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Figure 4: Quizzes can be in hot potatoes, Moodle’s own quiz format or an externalsite such as Quizlet or Zondlec. ProjectsWe designed a series of group projects. These have several purposes:■ ■ to encourage everyone to interact, online and face-to-face, and engender asense of community■ ■ to get across the message that we are not delivering all the information that theyneed to know, nor could we, but that they have to become aware of what theyshould work on and set out to augment their knowledge accordingly■ ■ to foster the sense that if they work together on some tasks there could be apositive synergy, that they could help each other in useful ways and that theycould go on to use what has been created by others.To all of the above ends, each week (or block) there is a group project. Groupsare set up with a mix of face-to-face and online course participants and they areremixed every week. Each project leads to creating something that they can publishthrough wikis or forums and will help other groups to revise in future. Projects are notevaluated by tutors. Moodle facilitates online collaborations (Stanford, 2008: 58), whichcan be teacher-to-student or student-to-student. Asynchronous forums and wikisallow participants time to compose their messages, which encourages reflection aswell as ‘deeper’ more considered thinking than in synchronous exchanges (Sharmaand Barrett, 2007: 107). Presentations can be crafted by several people togetherbefore being published. End results vary enormously but are always interesting.Creating a blended Delta Module One | 105