I love Moodle!! Our community college is changing from Blackboard to Moodle, and of course as with any change there are a bunch of things we have to work out, but I can see how Moodle will be so much more user friendly.
DI von Briesen is conducting a workshop for us clueless instructors (clueless as to Moodle) and he is excellent!!
I really want to move more of my courses to online, but I have noticed that the students learn more in group projects and lecture. I'm thinking to bring that to the virtual world, use groups, forums, and youtubes of my lectures.
I wonder if anyone else has experience with this? Of course building an online course is only 10 years worth of work smushed into a week, right? Hey, why not, after all I am OVERZEALOUS!!!
Are you an overzealous community college instructor? Do you daydream of having an assistant? Do you often undertake an overload of courses so a few students can graduate on time? Are you changing textbooks more times than you can count? If you have answered yes to one of these questions, you are probably an OVERZEALOUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR. A cure for this malady has not yet been found. However, with the euphoria that comes with helping others....who wants to be cured anyway?????
Friday, November 19, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Teaching Distance Education
Okay, I surrender! Although I LOVE to teach accounting face-to-face with eager accounting students (or they want me to believe they are eager, I know otherwise, I just don't let them know they're not fooling me), the way times are headed, it turns out I've got to learn, nay, embrace teaching accounting online.
I've taught a few accounting courses online already, usually with disastrous results. However, I have only included word, excel, and pdf files, which are boring, boring, and boring. So, I am now following along with my Charlotte, NC neighbors in Learning 2.0 - 23 things, and hopefully I will create some sort of collaborative learning environment where my students can not just learn, but ABSORB the exciting, challenging, and often beautiful world of debits and credits.
You, my dear blog, is the first step in this glorious journey. What is the next step? Only time will tell.
I leave you with a mysterious, ancient accounting blessing......
MAY YOUR DEBITS ALWAYS EQUAL YOUR CREDITS!
I've taught a few accounting courses online already, usually with disastrous results. However, I have only included word, excel, and pdf files, which are boring, boring, and boring. So, I am now following along with my Charlotte, NC neighbors in Learning 2.0 - 23 things, and hopefully I will create some sort of collaborative learning environment where my students can not just learn, but ABSORB the exciting, challenging, and often beautiful world of debits and credits.
You, my dear blog, is the first step in this glorious journey. What is the next step? Only time will tell.
I leave you with a mysterious, ancient accounting blessing......
MAY YOUR DEBITS ALWAYS EQUAL YOUR CREDITS!
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