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What the?

One might look at my last two posts and ask, “What’s that stuff doing there?”  Well, I have decided to start posting my class objectives for the week on my blog as a way to capture them in time.  You see I post my objectives in Moodle at the top of my courses every day:

class objectives for the week in Moodle
class objectives for the week in Moodle

Which is great.  I really like having this information right at the top of the Course.  The problem is that I am losing the previous information as soon as I update it.  I have seen teachers logging this information in binders and books.   I can’t quite bring myself to go analog on this.  Not with Moodle already there.  But I haven’t found a way to keep this information in Moodle (where I would really like to store it) and easily reference it in the Course Topic section.

I have experimented with embedding Google Calendar and entering the information as an event for each day but it felt clunky.  I really like to have a database back end with a simple web front end that I could pre-load with objectives and assignments and have it populate automatically.  I just don’t have the time right now to do that.  So for now, I’ll capture the information in my blog.  At least I will be able to go back and find the information when I need to.

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    TechKilljoy

    While a serious tech nut myself I am a big fan of analog backup on some things. Lesson plans are one. I keep two binders. Period. One is full of all the stuff my paper-based school still feels they need to kill trees for (grrrr) but the other has all my lesson plans arranged by class and tabbed by week. When Im sick or end up needing a sub with short notice they can flip to the page and at least attempt the lesson if they are one of my “regulars”. No fiddling with the computer required which can be a bother for a sub at times with a semi-familiar system. Call me old fashioned but I think 2 binders (one forced on me!) is not excessive and it has stood the test of time including getting deployed to the middle east for 8 months as a member of the National Guard and having 4 successive long term subs in my room.

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