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Re: Writing Moodle
Posted by Lickety Split on 10/05/08
There are two different writing moodles. One seems to be designed to help
non-Language Arts teachers think about ways to introduce writing
activities into their classrooms. It is supposed to be about 10 hours
long. There are links to websites---most of them pretty good---and journal
entries. About three of the journal entries involve trying something
suggested in an article and then reflecting on it. I think the 10-hour
estimation is pretty close.
I was feeling very snarly about the whole thing when I started it, but I
actually found it to be one of the most useful of the state-generated
staff development experiences I've had. I really prefer a self-paced
experience to driving to the Brownstone in Raleigh and listening to
someone tell me something I may already know. The journal side to the
readings allowed me to think about my particular classroom---so I was sort
of working away on planning and thinking that I already needed to do. I
did most of it at home over a weekend. I can't see any reason to force a
faculty to do it all at the same time in a lab at the end of the day.
The other moodle looks like it is for training teachers to score the new
writing test items. It doesn't look nearly as interesting. However,
again, I MUCH prefer a self-paced individual training done at my
convenience to being stuck in a room at the end of the day with forty
other teachers.
I never would have thought, though, that I'd be dreaming of returning to
that awful state writing test. So many parts of this new arrangement seem
unworkable. The technology requirement alone is going to be a major
headache for a lot of systems.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 9/30/08, by fully.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 9/30/08, by Stressed to the Max..
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 9/30/08, by deeja.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 10/01/08, by JanetNC.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 10/01/08, by fully.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 10/02/08, by E. 5th NC.
- Re: Writing Moodle, 10/02/08, by Can't Say.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 10/03/08, by Fully.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 10/04/08, by Anon.
- Re: Writing Moodle, 10/05/08, by Renee Gilpin.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 10/05/08, by LaTina.
- Re: Writing Moodle, 10/05/08, by Lickety Split.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 10/06/08, by go ahead and have your melt down.
- Re: Writing Moodle, 10/06/08, by Maybe I should apply.
- Re: Writing Moodle, 10/07/08, by Anon.
- Re: Writing Moodle, 10/08/08, by This just in.
- Re: Writing Moodle, 10/08/08, by fully.
- Re: Writing Moodle, 10/09/08, by ncteach.
- Re: Writing Moodle OH MY GOSH TYPO, 10/09/08, by ncteach.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 10/10/08, by Cathy in NC.
- Re: Writing Moodle, 10/11/08, by joy2educ8.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 10/11/08, by ncteach.
- Re: Does anyone know about 30 hr required training...., 10/11/08, by LaTina.
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