“Your support in technology,” shared the human resources associate superintendent in an email, “is the reason that we are able to realize these initiatives. Thanks so much for your help.” Of course, she was referring to the Clerical Assessment Battery (CAB), a screening program for new job applicants to the district. Its implementation would save the human resources department time in assessing clerical job applicants.

Development of the CAB module — using Adobe’s Captivate program — took 3 weeks and a half-dozen meetings with the human resources department. The program was developed and deployed within our school district’s learning management system. Since deployment of the CAB, my district has partnered with http://www.pbs.org/teacherline PBS TeacherLine to license and re-deliver an electronic graphic organizer course. Teachers log in into the learning management system — which we call ePath — and participate in a facilitated 100 percent online course. The course is taught through the use of a course management system; the system we use is the free, open source CMS known as http://moodle.org Moodle.

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