Evaluating My GAME Plan Progress

Even though I have had to put my plans on hold in regards to working with the MOODLE mentor I had located, I have still been able to access blogs, youtube videos, and a wiki that together have given me a snapshot of MOODLE’s capabilities. So far I have learned that MOODLE is a complete virtual learning management system that allows educators, students, and parents to communicate and collaborate in the learning process. In doing so, MOODLE acts as a class hub allowing for blogs, wikis, pod casts, videos, quizzes, and various online learning activities and assessments. Although I am not at the point where I’m ready to jump in and use MOODLE with my students this year, considering MOODLE and its applications has helped create a vision for my next school year. Instead of limiting my use of technology to the writing and researching components of my language arts curriculum during certain times of the school year, I intend to use MOODLE as a means of creating a multimodal literacy environment to engage students throughout the school year. In doing so, MOODLE can help me infuse traditional literacies with media-based literacies, as well as helping me foster 21st century learning skills such as communication, collaboration, problem-solving and creative thinking (Cennamo, Ross, & Ertmer, 2009, pp. 195-6). At this point, I still need to learn the logistics of setting up a MOODLE account and how to go about creating this lush multimodal learning environment. I’m certain that when I’m in the process of doing so, many questions will arise. In the meantime, I intend to continue learning what others have done until my MOODLE mentor is available to give me the hands-on tutorial that this digital immigrant so desperately needs. Mary Reference: Cennamo, K., Ross, J., & Ertmer, P. (2009). Technology integration for meaningful classroom use: A standards-based approach. Mason, OH: Cengage Learning