Honestly I’ve found Moodle to be a very difficult platform to work from. It is certainly not as easy as I thought it would be and looks nothing like the SLN platform I’m used to from past online classes. I at first had a lot of trouble with the placement of the course documents, but the Jing demonstration helped me out a lot with that part and introduced me to a tool I need for my introduction module. I can only hope that I will be able to create the rest after overcoming these initial problems.

What I’ve began to do is simplify the structure of my course. I figured I’d have to do this so I was over ambitious at first on purpose so that I could cut the fat later. Although I believe I’m cutting more fat than I ever dreamed. For one thing I’m cutting the course in half so that it only encompasses half the material I originally planned. I’ve changed the blog from one that was to be content based to a reflection blog and I’ve also cut down the number of projects, so that my course could focus on the more important regents tasks of the course.

I believe there will be many more changes to my course. For one thing I’m re-thinking my original theme based history course to perhaps something more traditional linear (time-line based) course. This way I can chunk the content in a way that is not too spread out and make the course more practical for someone with a limited history, well in history.