{"id":74,"date":"2006-02-15T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2006-02-15T03:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T03:28:00","slug":"moodle-evangelizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/moodle-evangelizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Moodle Evangelizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing a letter to a dear friend and former colleague.  I was blathering on about&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what I&#8217;ve been doing with the Moodle<\/li>\n<li>how it is helping me get a handle on my overwhelming paperwork<\/li>\n<li>how the children are appreciating the immediate feedback on quizzes<\/li>\n<li>how my students who hate to read and write don&#8217;t seem to realize they are doing both when they take part in the chats and the forums<\/li>\n<li>how kids are logging in from home to journal with me<\/li>\n<li>how the journals are helping me forge connections with children who now seem to see me as an ally instead of just another person getting in their way<\/li>\n<li>how the ability for me to leave comments on their assignments is leading many children to improve their writing through revision<\/li>\n<li>how I look forward to logging into the Moodle&#8211; a feeling I don&#8217;t get when staring at a pile of worksheets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After I sent the letter, I had second thoughts.  I thought, &#8220;Oh no. Too much Moodle in that letter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my delight when she wrote back very excited about Moodle and appreciative that I&#8217;d gone into so much detail because now she is getting ideas on how to implement it at her school &#8212; I feel like a grandparent who just discovered someone who actually enjoys looking at pictures of my grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was writing a letter to a dear friend and former colleague. I was blathering on about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> what I&#8217;ve been doing with the Moodle how it is helping me get a handle on my overwhelming paperwork how the children are appreciating the immediate feedback on quizzes how my students who hate to read and write [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}