Monday, August 27, 2012
Schoology as another option vs. Edmodo
My Moodle Page
I am by no means an expert but I have made it quite known that I love Moodle and truly believe in this day and age every teacher should be getting ready for blended learning by making sure they have their own Moodle site for their classes. (Having an Edmodo site would be fine as well). Unless you are at a school where every student comes to school everyday, nobody ever loses a paper, and all students pay attention during the entire class you seriously need to consider getting a LMS (Learning Management System). Not only do these help students immensely but they can be huge time savers for teachers. Ever heard these questions? "Where is that handout", "what is our homework", "what did we do Monday". The answer to all of these could be "It's on Moodle!!!". Yes, there is a little more up front work that goes into getting them off the ground but after that maintaining them is quite easy. I am by no means to the point of running my class daily on Moodle but I feel I have a good start. I am going into my 7th year of teaching and have yet to teach the same content year to year. Assuming things stay as they are in my current position I will get to "reteach" the same content in 3 years from now yet I still consider having a LMS for all my classes to be necessary. If you are a general education teacher who gets to basically teach the same material year to year then this should be a no brainer. I am linking to my moodle page with the hopes that someone will find it useful or at least help them generate some ideas, when it prompts you to log in just "Log in as a guest". I have some good links and have collected some educational YouTube videos in one place so you don't have to search through all the garbage. My US History Moodle site and my Algebra 1 Moodle (as you can see I didn't get much done on my Algebra Moodle, FYI the content is suited more for gen ed MS than HS.)
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