Over the last few days, I decided to move content for the local campus technology representatives (CTR) group into a Moodle...to create "The Campus Technology Center," (login with your SAISD email username and password) a clearinghouse for everything about technology that campuses need to have access to in ONE place. Love some constructive feedback.

It's been fun re-discovering Moodle and eye-opening to realize HOW MUCH content we've developed over the last 6 years in Instructional Technology Services. What happens during 6 years of development--across multiple platforms, web servers and development tools--is that one ends up with everything scattered everywhere. And, I had lost track of some of the neat stuff we'd put together early on.

Dropping everything into a Moodle course--with the fear of being overwhelming--has helped refocus and help me see it all. Though I have every web designer's aversion to scrolling pages, I still remember that many educators are still newbies when it comes to web sites...their first impulse when arriving to a new page is to scroll down.

I've been adding Voicethread versions of my presentations, hoping to get some feedback from you! With VoiceThread, you can leave comments (audio, text, video!) on the actual slides.

Some of the additons I hope to make to the Moodle include the following:

• Amanda Hefner showed me about embedding Freemind Concept/Mind Maps in Moodle, so, of course, I want to enable the CTC moodle to accommodate that.
• Ken Task shared the TA:TEKS glossaries, so I want to make those available as well. I hope to add these to the CTC soon.