Well, it’s been a while. There are a multitude of reasons for why I haven’t been posting lately, but I’ll explain them here. I do hope to be back to posting on a regular basis.

COVID-19

Obviously, the biggest issue over the last few months. Due to COVID-19, I’ve been working 14 hour days for six to seven days a week.

LMS Review/Implementation

The school district that employs me underwent a review of our LMS. As you might know from this blog, I’ve long been involved with Moodle. Moodle is a great, pedagologically sound (indeed rich), open-source LMS. Unfortunately, that power comes at a cost. Moodle needs to work on user friendliness. As a result, the district reviewed LMS options.

My charge was to select and implement a more “user friendly” LMS. I worked with a committee to do a full review, and select an LMS. Schoology ended up being the choice of the committee. The strenghth of Schoology is two-fold; ease of use and parent communication.

Unfortunately, we had an extremely tight time frame to implement Schoology. Even Schoology was impressed at the tight time frame that followed. I proud to say that my team and I got it done. We implemented things in weeks that normally take months.

Popularity

Quite frankly, I don’t have a popular blog. Heck, I think that I might be the only audience. If my blog was more popular, I probably would’ve posted much more regularly.

I’m really ok with this, by the way.