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This morning, I had the chance to ask regional tech directors in the San Antonio area the following:
Could we design a framework that we could all agree to follow when designing an online course, especially one that will end up in Moodle, a free open source course management system? My concern is that each of us will design a course–such as for cyberbullying, digital citizenship, differentiated instruction–that is usable in our district but not in others. It would be a terrible waste of time to create something for use ONLY in one place when we can so easily collaborate.
I would like for us to come up with a list of expectations that would serve as our model, or as someone else said, a “template,” that we could each use when designing our own courses in our own district.
Thanks to Jennifer Faulkner, TCEA Area 20 Board Member who was present at our meeting, TCEA will be hosting the meeting and supporting those who gather in December to discuss what such a course design framework should look like. I, for one, will look forward to sharing it here for your constructive feedback.
In pursuing this goal, I hope that we’ll be creating a structure that is usable for us…the question is, has someone already created such a structure and could you share that with us?
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So will this meeting be available to all TCEA members? Will they advertise it? Considering we have been having this conversation in the list serve for quite awhile now, I’m surprised they have not chimed in and let us all know they were planning this. It is a super idea! Its times has come. We need this type of collaboration among our entire membership. They should even UStream the meeting for those who cannot attend in person so they can have a say as well via the chat. I just hope it is open to everyone. Count me in.Thanks for sharing it with us, Miguel.
So will this meeting be available to all TCEA members? Will they advertise it? Considering we have been having this conversation in the list serve for quite awhile now, I’m surprised they have not chimed in and let us all know they were planning this. It is a super idea! Its times has come. We need this type of collaboration among our entire membership. They should even UStream the meeting for those who cannot attend in person so they can have a say as well via the chat. I just hope it is open to everyone. Count me in.Thanks for sharing it with us, Miguel.
No, this is just a few folks in area 20 having a conversation. TCEA Area 20 director will sponsor the food and guest speakers but that’s about it…no official stepping up to do Moodle, manage it centrally, etc.Instead, this is a group of tech directors collaborating and TCEA Area 20 Director choosing to support their collaboration with refreshments and food.So, don’t read more into it. However, what a neat idea to uStream it and invite collab.Miguel
No, this is just a few folks in area 20 having a conversation. TCEA Area 20 director will sponsor the food and guest speakers but that’s about it…no official stepping up to do Moodle, manage it centrally, etc.Instead, this is a group of tech directors collaborating and TCEA Area 20 Director choosing to support their collaboration with refreshments and food.So, don’t read more into it. However, what a neat idea to uStream it and invite collab.Miguel
If they are at all interested in letting us join you guys, let us know. We will drive down. It is a big deal to get this thing started as a state-wide collaborative project. Your one meeting could spread everywhere. Since we have several years working with Moodle in our Virtual High School program (meaning courses created), we would have a strong interest in being there one way or the other. It only takes one forward thinking board member to kick this thing off. Maybe after Monday there will be two more elected. 😉
If they are at all interested in letting us join you guys, let us know. We will drive down. It is a big deal to get this thing started as a state-wide collaborative project. Your one meeting could spread everywhere. Since we have several years working with Moodle in our Virtual High School program (meaning courses created), we would have a strong interest in being there one way or the other. It only takes one forward thinking board member to kick this thing off. Maybe after Monday there will be two more elected. 😉