Thursday, October 7, 2010
A New Direction
Well, right after I posted my last blog, I got an e-mail from our School Instructional Technology Facilitator that the Technology Department had decided NOT to go with Moodle after all, but to focus on Blackboard, at least for the next couple of years. So in one way, I feel like I've wasted a lot of time trying to figure out Moodle, but since I was having such trouble doing that, dropping it seems like a relief at least for now. I am now in the process of researching the ins and outs of Blackboard, and I will soon be sitting down with our high school instructional tehnology facilitator to glean some more information. Our group is trying to decide how all the different technologies that the county is using will best integrate together, and we have created an in-depth spreadsheet detailing the features of major software packages that we either are already using or are strongly considering using in our county. This sets my internship in a new direction, but I think I will be able to run with this topic now. A new week awaits. We'll see what changes it brings.
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Hi Kevin,
ReplyDeleteI heard about the moodle decision. I must say, I'm not much of a fan of BB as an online learning environment, but it's better to have one definite direction than to have multiple wishy-washy directions, right?
Will you still be able to create the pre-packaged course profiles with BB? I know that you all had been thinking about doing that so teachers wouldn't have to create everything from scratch.
Patrick