Moodle Share Fair #1
Produced by The Learning Curve and IMG Software
Hosted by Millis Public Schools
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Photos --- Participants' Comments ---  What's next

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General comments

• Great night! A real collaborative learning opportunity that has been so positive, not one of
  those dreary kinds of workshops that education is famous for. Well done, thank you!
• This is my first experience and exposure to Moodle. Very compelling and interesting. I can see
  how it can become a very powerful learning tool. I look forward to learning more.
• It was good to share the trials we experience in preparing test banks in chemistry, especially
  where equations with subscripts etc. are difficult to include. A means of simplifying the process
  may be at hand!
• Great ability to expand the classroom beyond four walls.
• I loved how others are willing to share their knowledge and sites.
• Flexibility and possibilities
• Great organization and private-public partnership
• This was extremely helpful and I hope that we can begin to access other teachers' work so
  that we're not reinventing the wheel each time.

Suggestions for future topics

• Applications for middle and high school math
• More advanced applications of Moodle
• More time for breakout sessions
• Longer breakouts
• Pedagogy of teaching and learning online
• Instructional design
• Portfolios
• More examples of Moodle projects
• Course specific share sessions
• More elementary topics
• Actual technical training; file management, adding videos, creating podcasts
• More collaboration and breakouts
• Full-day workshops!
• Teachers sharing best practices
• More use of Moodle to deliver professional development
• Global communication perhaps with international schools Romeo is working with
• More with literature, language, humanities, art, music, film
• More courses on Moodle to help me create my own
• How to create Webinars
• Consider holding these during the school day to get different people attending

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What's next

One of the most important outcomes for us at IMG and The Learning Curve was to find out from you just
what we should do in the future. Listed below are some of the ideas you gave us. Interspersed with these
are some preliminary thoughts that we have as well. We look forward to developing these and to launch an
even more exciting year during 2009-2010. We are very serious about making these kinds of sessions a
value added feature of this learning community. Therefore, we will actively seek grant opportunities and
partnerships with organizations that want to share in this vision. Read on . . .

• Our professional development site is already alive and well. However, we want to make it grow
  into a thriving opportunity for educators. Check it out.
• We will develop a Moodle site for shared courses for students. This will provide schools in our Moodle
  community an opportunity to offer courses that they could not otherwise offer. Already there is
  interest in a Screenwriting course. If you think your school might want to enroll students in a
  Screenwriting course taught by Patrick Daly of Waltham High School, please email me.
• The state and national STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) initiative is a high priority.
  We will develop this area for teachers not only in STEM subjects but also for non-STEM teachers. This one
  is already on the planning table.
• Perhaps we can even offer an introductory engineering course for students. Do you know someone
  who could teach this online? If so, please email me.
• We will seek grant funding to support full-day workshops in various Moodle related topics. Recognizing
  that funding is a serious problem for schools, we will seek ways of funding the hiring of substitutes to
  release teachers for participation in full-day seminars.
• Soon: We want to host a session especially for superintendents. This is a high priority. There is no
  question that this level of support is essential if we are to expand and if we are to provide even higher
  levels of service and support.
• For 2009-2010: We will plan a series of professional development sessions, perhaps 3-4 spread out
  through the year. Each would focus on a specific subject area and/or grade level.

As always, please let us know by email or phone if you have additional suggestions and ideas.

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