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The ‘Nah’ List
Does this sound a bit (or a lot) like YOU sometimes, or someoneyou work with? 
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1. “Kids can only work on their project at school because they save the file in theirfolder so I have to book these long blocks of lab time.”2.” I get frustrated when I see the booking for a full lab then see about 5 kids sitting in there while I could do with a few machines.”3. “Even though it’s hard to control sometimes, I absolutely must have each kidworking on their own computer but it’s hard because I rarely get that chance.”4. “I always get lost in shared folders.”5. “I just get in the lab and let go of the kids. They know better than me what to do sowhy should I worry too much – they keep quiet at least.”6. “Kids come with innate ability and interest in computers, I don’t.”7. “I photocopy just about everything. I flog the photocopier beast, even thoughadmittedly most of it ends up in a bin.” 8. “You need to be on computers all the time with Moodle.”9.” I must always create assessment tasks for the kids. I mean, what if the kids coulddesign their own test… it would probably be unprofessional.”10. “I just want to talk to students in person straight away or at least write remark asthey submit their piece of work but then I carry the marking for tree weeks in thecar.”11. “I can see a few others using Moodle, I would love to learn it but I don’t have thechance to.”12. “I don’t know about Moodle because I don’t know how to log in. Ah, yes, I don’teven know my password.”13. “I want the kids to create and edit the same document together and improve itbut it’s impossible because they all have separate student folders.”14. “You really need to be an expert and tech savvy to use Moodle”15. ” I have heard people talking about Twitter – that’s where Demi Moore tells youwhat she had for breakfast, right? What a waste of time!"16. “I reckon we come across so many good online resources in our department butsharing them is a problem because we bookmark them on our own laptops and thennever get together to look at and share.”17. “I want to learn about Microsoft Office – you know, the basic Word, spreadsheetsand all that because I have no idea about them. I am a bit embarrassed about it too.”18. “Moodle is just another thing we need to learn, deal with and worry about now.Admin will probably switch to something new in a year or two anyway so why botherusing in and learning about it now.”19. “Why the hell did they have to change the email system? How do you work thisone?”20. “Bloody wireless is not working.”21. “Fair enough to try with those on-screen tutorials but I just don’t like them. I’drather someone just to show me quickly, I can take some notes… but I don’t reallyknow who knows what they can do.”22. "I procrastinate."
 
23. “It drives me mad when I see kids spending the whole period of precious lab timetwiddling with powerpoints and colouring the fonts instead of writing. What can I doabout it?”24.” Nah, I don’t need any photos I what I do. Besides, you need to pay for most ofthem anyway, then the photocopying and all…”25. “Time and time again kids just type in things in Google and then get hit withmillions of results. I can’t really help them either because I am not that good at iteither.”26. “I am too old for all this computer stuff.” 27. “I want each kid to record a real life example of what we are doing in class but Ijust don’t have 20 cameras or voice recorders to give out to them.”28. “Moodle is just about fun and games, it’s a time waster and does not encourage‘real work’.”29. “There are times I want to share something really good I have done but I don’twant to clog people’s email or brag about it.” 30. “Some people just don’t seem to care what happens to computer gear, as long asthey get through their period OK. “31. “Ah well, someone else will put the laptops to charge. The other classes probablywon’t use them much.”32. “I am over these hundreds of long messages in my email inbox – I am notinterested in just about all of them, some I find no time to read.”33. “I don’t know if it’s me but I somehow computers hate me.”34. “I often want to ask kids the questions and stimulate discussions but I get calloutsand then only the loud ones, the confident ones and the quick responders get it.”35. “I am starting to get kids to do mind maps but I don’t know how to create onetogether and then keep adding to it as we go and keep it handy.”36. “What sort of things can I do with Moodle anyway?”37. “I just can’t get my head around Moodle. What exactly is it?”38. “All software is so expensive, I just can’t afford it.”39. “I have a whole folder of files that I want kids to be able to access but I don’twant to fiddle with shared drives and kids folders all the time.”40. “There are some websites I want the kids to look at but they keep getting lost oreither keep typing wrong address so it takes ages to do the internet research.”41. “I just can’t get a lab for my class.”42. “My students will love Moodle because it is online and in ‘their world'“43. “I don’t have time for all this ICT stuff.”44.” Why don’t we have one of those TV recorder things at school. There are so manyshows I see and I think to myself – that would be so good in my class but then I fumblefor tapes, forget the thing…”45. “I get confused which network and password I need to use.”46. “I don’t want to stop here now but continue and add to this because I reckonpeople could benefit from it.”47. “What ever happened to those literacy resources we talked about. Can we accesthem, maybe add some of our own?”48. “Don’t know if there is some good external PD I can do?”49. “I can never catch Tomaz.”50. “I can’t find Russell half the time.”
 
The aim here is not just to complain but to actually DO something about it.
 
You can add to this document via Staff Forum on Staff Intranet (blueMoodle). Your questions, suggestions and solutions will be incorporated intothe document.
Apologies for TeacherTube links not working – just noticed, will publish new versionof this document with correct links soon (T/Tube fault, not me
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1. “Kids can only work on their project at school because they savethe file in their folder so I have to book these long blocks of lab time.”Top
Did you know students have access to all their files on student drive through Moodle?All they have to do is login to Moodle from home or anywhere with internetconnection, look up the Home Access, My Network item (just above the login, topright) login with their regular username and password to access and edit files as if theywere at school. Please note that size limit applies, each student has allocated quotabut if they need more (eg media students) please see Russell and he can increase it.
 
2.” I get frustrated when I see the booking for a full lab then see about5 kids sitting in there while I could do with a few machines.”Top
Well, it’s a human factor thing. I teachers booking the room would care enough aboutyou and
put the number of kids in their class & year group
on the booking you wouldprobably be OK more times than not. It would just give you an idea of possibly a fewspares you could share.Do you believe in flogging?
 
 
3. “Even though it’s hard to control sometimes, I absolutely musthave each kid working on their own computer but it’s hard because Irarely get that chance.”Top
Well, you are probably right in many cases but possibly not always – there are betterways. Sure you have heard of cooperative learning, guys like Barrie Bennet have evenmade a career out of it – look him up and/or ask me for Barrie’s resources oncooperative learning. The guy is brilliant! One of the big things he talks about is howyou can actually do more with less. Think about it – structure things cleverly and eg.three kids per one machine will be less taxing to control, they are much less likely tostuff around and watch one play silly games etc. In case you wonder – it has been donethousands of times before.As far as ICT/software use goes, a humble wiki in Moodle is an awesome tool you cantry this with. Here is how you set it up (link):http://www.teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=37191&title=Adding_a_wiki_in_Moodleand maybe ask me for some details, creative uses and common traps. Here is somegeneral info on what is wiki that may just help you get your head around it first:http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
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