Goals are important. This year I set goals to do more professional reading and to reflect on the reading through my blog. I have many blogs mostly extremely under-active (last post here was fall 2007!) but decided to use this one for my reflections.
I haven't done so well with the professional readings but I have been very active with my personal professional development in the area of Moodle, our district's learning management system (LMS). Through training from our support contractor, my understanding of the potential of Moodle has increased greatly. My focus now is on the differences between using a LMS to create a resource for a face to face course, to deliver content totally online but within a virtual learning community (common start time, common end time, due dates and online interaction between participants) and teaching on a totally individual basis (only interaction the student might have is with the teacher - like the district Copyright course). I am beginning to frame some ideas in my mind about what elements are necessary in each of this situations. I will create additional posts on two of these areas and describe in more depth what I've been doing.
