Blended Learning in a Catholic High School

Lessons Learned

Who we are. . .

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Holy Trinity Catholic High School• Simcoe, Ontario

"Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge."

~Plato

This is where we were…

This is were we went. . .

We adapted technology and hit the photocopier

Killing many trees in the process

Then we found the solution . . .

This is one of our students checking her teacher’s course moodle site to find lessons and homework.

Life Before Moodle

• Used:– TeacherWeb– Homework Hotline– Network Notes drive

How we found moodle and got started

• ECOO – Educational Computing Organization of Ontario

• Installed moodle to our domain

• Found good tech support

In the beginning. . .

• Introduced moodle; and its power, to our tech savvy mover-and-shaker teachers and let them try it

• Word began to spread

Moodle sold it’s self

• Teachers saw the power, benefits and flexibility of moodle

• We offered in-house PD• Students and parents

began asking for it

Top Uses of Moodle from HT Teachers

Calendar

Links to Outside

Resources

Course Work Submissions

Organization

Posting Class

Resources

Convincing the Majority

• Administration expected each teacher to have a moodle for at least one course per semester

• Now it is an expectation from students, parents and administration that teacher use and update moodle regularly.

Integral Part of Student Success at HT• Moodle has become an

integral part of our students success program.

• Featured in:Getting By or

Getting BetterWayne Hully & Linda Dier

"Moving from the one-room schoolhouse to the one-world schoolhouse is now a reality."

Cisco Systems

Where are we Growing ?

• Elementary Schools 6/7/8– Feeder schools– Transition program– ½ day training sessions

• PD– WFMP– High school– Key people– Training course

Next steps

• Dedicated Server– Growing pains

• Moodle 2.0• Video

– IP camera– Pod casting– chat

• Board Wide– High School / Elementary