Posts made by Art Lader

The Pretty Good Teacher hadn't thought of that. But she had an Internet connection in her classrrom. And there were quite a few online computers in the school's media center.

Why don't you stop be here right after school and use our computer when you want to Moodle? she suggested.

The student smiled. Thanks! I will, she said, and headed to her next class....
That evening, she went back to the wiki to reread some of the pages. She was surprised to see that some students had continued to work on their pages from home. They had added graphics and links and some shocking, but enthusiastic, text formatting.

When class met the next day, several of the students were quite excited about Moodle. One said, When my father asked me what we had done in school, I showed him the wiki. He thought it was great! It was obvious that she was proud of the work she and her classmates had done.

The Pretty Good Teacher was feeling pretty good.

Can we go back tot he lab today? one student asked.

No, she replied, not today, but we can go back tomorrow. Do you all want to do that?

When they said yes, she was not surprised.

In the meantime, maybe we should think of a name for our online classroom.

They thought of several good posibilities and decided to vote to pick the best one. The Pretty Good Teacher said, We do not have to vote right now. I will post a choice to our new web site and you can take a few days to decide.

Almost everyone agreed that this was a sensibe idea. But a couple of students looked unhappy about it.

What's wrong? the Pretty Good Teacher asked one of them as the class was leaving.

We don't have the Internet at my house, so I can't vote, said the student...