Thoughts of this have been stirring around in my head for a few months - time to commit the thoughts to digital ink. :)
In December we invited a trainer from Remote Learner, Michelle Moore, to do some advanced Moodle training. We had her spend one day with the district ITSs and some folks from Computer Services then she spent two days doing sessions with teachers who are already using Scoodle and ready to advance to the next level.
Having some targeted professional development is so uplifting. Michelle is an extremely competent trainer, has classroom experience (Middle School Math!) and does a good job reading her audience. The day spent with computer services was a great opportunity to collectively reflect on our current Moodle implementation and to set some goals for next steps. Moodle has tremendous potential for allowing us to take quick snapshots of student understanding with immediate feedback (using quizzes) and also allows for transparent differentiation of content delivery and assessment using Groups and Groupings. It's always exciting to find more power in existing tools to give us some focus instead of needing to seek additional tools to accomplish our instructional objectives.
I look forward to investing more time doing further explorations of the power of Moodle and also look forward to sharing much of what we learned with teachers.
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