“Can You Moodle?” so goes the invitation to apply for a job in Dallas Independent School District. Here’s the invitation to prospective job candidates:
Instructional Technology in Dallas ISD has a position opening for an Online Learning Specialist. Job posting and details at http://www.dallasisd.org/ClientDoc/2924055onlinespecinsttechJan7.pdf.
We’re looking for someone who is great with Moodle and Web 2.0 tools to assist us in providing a rich online experience for our teachers, staff and students.
Can you Moodle? If so, we’d love to have you apply. Position closes January 26.
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Would I have to move to Dallas?
Would I have to move to Dallas?
@Dan Probably.
@Dan Probably.
This is the kind of job description that's killing public education. I'd like help create the kind of things the Dallas ISD needs, but I would only like to work on a contract basis. I want to go back to working as I did 20 years ago when I was an independent consultant and would define what a client wanted to do and then helped them create it, and then I would move on and help someone else create what they needed. That's why I like teaching; I keep getting a new batch of students every year.Creating 'positions' where someone is supposed to do a list of things that the hiring entity doesn't even understand very well with th added kicker of that old phrase, 'other duties as assigned' is the problem. Creating positions is about building a bureaucracy; it's not about creating the learning environment.If there's somebody in the Dallas ISD that has a vision and some juice, then they need to go out and just hire the people who will get what they need done done. What needs doing is going to change and the person that does the first part is probably not the best person to do the next step. That's why consulting / contract work works. The education establishment has a real hard time with that kind of thinking, though. It still likes to fill in lines on and organizational chart.
This is the kind of job description that's killing public education. I'd like help create the kind of things the Dallas ISD needs, but I would only like to work on a contract basis. I want to go back to working as I did 20 years ago when I was an independent consultant and would define what a client wanted to do and then helped them create it, and then I would move on and help someone else create what they needed. That's why I like teaching; I keep getting a new batch of students every year.Creating 'positions' where someone is supposed to do a list of things that the hiring entity doesn't even understand very well with th added kicker of that old phrase, 'other duties as assigned' is the problem. Creating positions is about building a bureaucracy; it's not about creating the learning environment.If there's somebody in the Dallas ISD that has a vision and some juice, then they need to go out and just hire the people who will get what they need done done. What needs doing is going to change and the person that does the first part is probably not the best person to do the next step. That's why consulting / contract work works. The education establishment has a real hard time with that kind of thinking, though. It still likes to fill in lines on and organizational chart.