TIP Update

We had last week off for "Energy Break," so there wasn't any real progress made on my TIP. I have two current users of Moodle and have just talked to two more(A high school English teacher and an elementary school teacher) who will implement something in the next week or two.

It seems as though time is the biggest issue for most teachers so far. It's hard for teachers, especially those who are less computer savvy, to learn something new to use in their classes even if they want to. I don't have much trouble convincing teachers that it is a useful tool, but it seems to be quite a big task to actually convince them it's worth the extra time they'd need to put in to actually use it. My thought is if I get a few people on board this year that find it really useful, other people will be more apt to use it in the future.

TIP Progress So Far

During the first semester I had 3 teachers, two on the high school level and one on the middle school level use Moodle in some capacity.

One high school teacher found it cumbersome and found that it really didn't do what he wanted it to do and doesn't plan on using it again this year.

Each of the other teachers like using it and plan to continue to use it during 2nd semester. This current semester I also plan on having at least one other high school teacher and an elementary teacher start using Moodle in some capacity.

This will put me at 4 teachers, maybe 5, which is about what I expected since we are a small school. I look forward to seeing how these other two teachers implement Moodle in their classes.