Leading+Technology+Change+-+Andrea

My principal was very open and receptive to increased Moodle use in my building. There are some teachers using Moodle, but my district recently acquired its own Moodle platform in the hopes that more teachers would consider using it for their own classrooms and also for collaboration. Very few teachers are familiar with Moodle, how it works, and many potential uses it has. My colleagues had only heard of Moodle, but were unaware of all of the features it has and that it could help us, as a department, collaborate.

I received the strongest positive response about the many potential teacher uses. My principal mentioned that another teacher had brought up the possibility of using Moodle to host professional learning communities and she said she would look into it further. My colleagues were initially intimidated by the entire thought of using Moodle, but became very interested in the idea that we could develop materials, either independently or together, upload them to Moodle, and access them at any time. Their biggest concern was not knowing how to use Moodle, but I assured them I would be happy to help them and that we could work together during our department meetings. We have set a date already to begin looking into developing a Moodle site together. My principal, once again, was very supportive of the idea of using Moodle to supplement face-to-face instruction. My colleagues were much more resistant to this idea because they do not know enough about it yet. However, by the end of my presentation, they were open to talking about looking into Moodle in the future.