This is the name of a workshop I have led last year. The name speaks to my (slight) obsession with my VLE - Virtual Learning Environment. In this case, my District School Board is using a MOODLE. I have had the distinction of having one of the most accessed MOODLEs in all of the Board. Yeah me!
When I describe a MOODLE to the un-initiated, I often resort to the somewhat snide: It is like a website on steroids! My MOODLE is so much more than that. It is my classroom. It isn't an extension, or a place for the kids to play - it is a space where we all learn together.
In a previous post I had written about my vision. My classroom values collaboration, innovation and creativity. The MOODLE is where all of this can take place.
For years I have experimented with blogs, wikis, pod casts, websites, etc. In fact this blog space has been refurbished, if you will, from a site where I used to get the kids to share. However, the MOODLE is now a space for all of this to occur together, in a real and authentic way. In the past I haven't been happy because I have had to control the learning. I was the one who posted the entries for the kids to respond to. I was the one creating the wikis that the kids would add to. With the MOODLE we all create together. It is OUR space.
In the coming posts I plan to describing in more detail how my MOODLE enhances my program.
M.
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