Art Lader

You are right, Steve. That is the best way to go in most school districts.

-- Art

We're back, Baby! I am posting this from school.

-- Art

Yes, but that is not not permitted, of course. Could be a bad career move.

-- Art

We block a lot of stuff that might surprise you. That is just our school district. It makes us all crazy, but there seems to be little that can be done about it except to pick our fights wisely.

We are now writing emails, making phones calls, etc., of course, trying to get moodle.org unblocked. We are trying to explain in an unoffensive way that this is where we come for professional development that we have to have to grow as teachers. It is a tougher sell than you might expect.

This is the kind of thing that we constantly deal with here. The people involved are neither malicious nor are they stupid. They are not teacher-haters. Fasr from it.

What they are is hugely risk-averse and it drives all kinds of otherwise inexplicable decisions. IMHO.

In this case, I think it was not our district, though, it was N2H2 who started blocking Moodle. But we can override their blocking of moodle.org.

Well, as the old saying goes, where all else fails, persistence prevails. We'll keep at it.

-- Art

Same company, same foolishness.  The land of the free and the home of the brave, huh?

Of course, I really do consider moodle to be subversive in the very best sense of the word.

-- Art