Well, as some of you know, this school year things have changed a bit in all levels of public education, and not necessarily for the better, what a surprise.
The reason? A six-letter word, beginning with C and ending in S, with another S somewhere in there. Got it? It also has two Is and an R.
In our school, the new law that obliges teachers to do one more teaching hour a week has been put into practice in the form of the school Moodle platform. (Different schools have chosen different options).
This is of course not necessarily bad as such, as the Moodle platform has certain advantages. I can't think of any right now, but it does.
The thing is that a lot of us already used to dedicate quite a lot more than an hour a week on our own private blogs, quite happily and of our own free will.
But now the time we spend on online activities has to be quantified (=Moodle), and for this reason I really don't know if I'm going to have time to continue this blog, however much I'd like to.
Disadvantages of Moodle? That it's closed to all people who are not current students of the EOI. This is the bit that I don't like as I enjoy the independent open personal side to blogging. It's nice to see that people have visited from India or the USA or Germany, for instance. That's the whole idea of internet, surely? Sharing world-wide. I'm sure Tim Berners Lee would agree with me.
As I say, though, Moodle does have some advantages, which still haven't come to my mind as yet, but believe them me.
I think this is a good song to represent change.
Lyrics:
Video killed the radio star - Buggles
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through
Oh-a oh
They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine and new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
Oh-a oh
I met your children
Oh-a oh
What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh-a-a-a oh
And now we meet in an abandoned studio
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go
Oh-a oh
You were the first one
Oh-a oh
You were the last one
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind we've gone to far
Oh-a-aho oh
Oh-a-aho oh
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
In my mind and in my car
We can't rewind we've gone to far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put the blame on VCR
You are a radio star
You are a radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
(You are a radio star)
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
(You are a radio star)
Oh-a oh
Oh-a oh
Oh-a oh
2 comments:
I think Moodle is an useful way to stay in touch with your teacher and your partners, and an easy way for the teacher to share interesting content.
Last year Carlos shared all we did in class. I never take notes and I'm happy to have Moodle.
When I studied CFGS Computer Applications Development we used Moodle a lot (every day) and it worked perfectly for our purposes.
Yes, I suppose it's very helpful for students who don't go to class or don't take notes, but for the teacher, it means doing everything twice. Very time-consuming.
Carlos is a superhuman, didn't you know?
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