It’s tough to lose a job you’ve come to value, even if you’ve only been there for a short time. Over the last year, I’ve had the opportunity to work as a freelance writer for Education World. It’s been a great gig…it started quite simply with an expectation that I write 500 words per article and then send in an invoice for $250. Of course, I always wrote far more than 500 words…and I reached people I hadn’t before…and that’s far more important.

As a lowly paid public school administrator, I take particular pleasure in publishing my writing to a global audience. So, it was with disappointment that I read a recent email from my editor at Education World letting me know to “STOP!” because freelance funding had been cut…it appears the stimulus money isn’t there.

Now, I have ONE more article that will appear on May 1st…it will be my final one, it seems. To whet your appetite, here’s the intro:

Practical Moodle Tips for Technology Administrators
Copyright 2009 Miguel Guhlin

In Moodle-izing Your Education Enterprise, you read about how Moodle course management system could be used to facilitate online professional learning, facilitate campus communications, and much more. How Moodle will be used will also depend on your expertise in setting up Moodle to allow for maximum educational use. This article seeks to share several practical tips for enhancing your Moodle for K-12 District use.

Here are some of those tips:

1. Mapping Out Your Moodle Implementation
2. Installing and Expanding Moodle’s Capabilities

So, as a retrospective, I’d like to take a moment and invite you to read/share the articles I wrote for you and that were published by Education World. Those appear below….

Moodle-izing Your Education Enterprise
Moodle is one of those technologies that can transform how you handle online professional development and student learning.

Five Lessons for Mobile Device Implementation
Because many school districts are just embarking on implementation of mobile devices, I’ve provided five lessons that should be considered before implementation.

Who We Are Together, Not Apart
Writing an AUP must be a collaborative, conversational, transparent process that facilitates conversation between human beings trying to understand who they are together.

Five Essential Tech Tools for School Administrators (Part 3)
As an administrator who uses technology in K-12 settings, I like the idea of using technology to R.E.A.C.H. out to parents and create opportunities for learning and dialogue.

Five Essential Tech Tools for School Administrators (Part 2)
In the second of a 3-part series on essential tools, we explore blogging. Of all the tools available, this one tool has the potential to bring about the most change in your learning and leading situation.

Five Essential Tech Tools for Campus Administrators (Part 1)
Many administrative tasks could be made easier with the use of technology; these are the five tasks I believe have the most potential to be enhanced by technology-related tools.

Five Selection Criteria for Visitor Management Systems
Moving from a paper-and-pencil, staff-member-managed visitor check-in system to a comprehensive technology-driven visitor management system can be expensive and challenging, but it is a critical step in protecting students and staff.

How to Manage Your District’s Learning Opportunities
School districts need to be able to provide and manage consistent professional learning opportunities that are scalable, platform-independent (Web-based), and that allow for interface with their district’s data warehouse and other systems. But how…?

Building Your Personal Learning Network
As we externalize our thinking, it becomes less of “I am an expert expounding on what I know” and more of “I am a learner, just like you, sharing what I’m learning so we can learn together.” Our understanding of learning is changing. We need to think of learning as an experience that happens when we connect with others.

Broadcast Learning: The Power of Network Learning
What if you could broadcast learning at will via the Internet to a world of learners? What if you could interact with people, not only face-to-face in your workshop, but also halfway around the world? What if your on-site workshop participants could participate in a conversation with those virtual participants? Pretty exciting, no?

Web Site Nirvana?
Depending on your level of expertise, you can jump into online publishing with your own district-supported content management system. Taking on the work of a content management system requires three things…

Managing Content in a Read/Write World
It’s not how well a technology director controls the content, but how easily he or she can distribute the authority to end users to maintain their own Web-based work.

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