This week has been a little frustrating as I have tried to move forward on my internship. As I looked to get a handle on the different aspects of a walled garden, I decided to focus first on the course management systems. I did an initial overview of course management systems including Blackboard, Moodle, Teacher Web, and School Fusion. After doing this initial overview, I realized that I should not spend too much time evaluating course management systems since the district has already purchased a Moodle server. So I figured my next task was to learn the ins and outs of using Moodle as an administrator, a teacher, and a student. This is proving harder than I initially thought. I don't have a Moodle account yet to play around on, and most of the training sessions are very expensive and time-consuming. I have found some helpful demo sites that I will spend more time playing on in the following week. In addition, I have contacted our district technologist to see if I can get trained in using this software.

In addition, I have started looking at Sophos security softwares as well. At this point I feel overwhelmed with this project, but I think I will feel better after a meeting with the district technologist and a meeting with my professor at Thursday's class. I'm still excited about the project, but I realize it is going to be even more work than I thought.