Monday, February 12, 2007

About Moodle

In English class, my classmates and I have been using something called Moodle. It is a website where we can post different things from small comments to homework assignments for either everyone in the class or just the teacher to see. We started this only about a week or two ago, and it's really fun to work with. There are some technical difficulties that I faced, but with using it a little more it made more sense and became easier to work with.

Some of the things that I like about Moodle is that there are ways to communicate with our classmates and are slightly similar to the use of instant messaging. Only thing is, it's not instant and it takes awhile for a person to realize that they got a new message and it takes awhile for them to reply.
Since moodle is a website where we can post our homework for only the teacher to see, it saves a lot of paper which is a benefit to Earth. Another plus about Moodle is that it's safe and no stalkers or other weird sorts of people can make an account on this site.
In class, Mr. Watson also asked us to answer questions like, "What are some creative ways to use Moodl? and What do you wish Moodle could do?" Well, some creative ways to use Moodle that me, Caitlin, and Michelle came up with were messaging with friends if you can't use something like AIM, editing the work that you posted, and as I said earlier sending our homework. If there was some way for Moodle to be more personalized like this blog, it would be even more exciting to work with. Also, if Moodle could play music it'd be a good way for people to post their ideas and read others while enjoying a nice tune. It would also be cool if I could communicate with kids around the world from countries like Japan, Korea, England, Etc.

Moodle is very fun to use and convienient as well, I'm glad that I got to learn about it in English class and hope to use it more in the future.

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