I spend a chunk of each day (Monday through Thursday, approximately 3 hours per day) visiting various middle schools and high schools in Brooklyn and working with teachers, and in one case, a principal, on using the open-source course management system (CMS) moodle (something like Blackboard) to achieve their instructional goals while incorporating social constructionist approach to learning theory.
One of the things I’m working on in the context of this fellowship are the issues of structure and interface in personal learning environments. It’s tough to explain the awkward structure and grammar of moodle and Blackboard if you are not familiar with them, but what I’m basically trying to do is make the course operate more like a normal interactive website inside the moodle.
Must shower.
