The document introduces the new Learning Management System project team for a school district and the tools and process they will use to build out the system. It identifies Bill Johnson and Angela Cartee as the leads who will work with the tool Moodle, supported by MoodleRooms, to first build courses in August-December and then train facilitators who will start using the new system for professional development in January 2012.

1. Introducing

2. The Learning Management System (LMS) Project Team

3. Kris Weingaertner-Hartke Lisa Powers Doug Austin Bill Johnson Angela Cartee

4. Powered by Moodle

5. Supported and hosted by MoodleRooms

6. Managed by Bill Johnson and Angela Cartee Bill Angela Uh, wait. Who are they?

7. Bill Johnson: Online Professional Learning Technology Specialist As the Online Professional Learning Technology Specialist, Bill works to develop the new Learning Management System (LMS) for our district. He is the techie behind building the courses. <and other duties to be named later>

8. Angela Cartee- Professional Learning Technology Specialist As the Professional Learning Technology Specialist, Angela works to develop the new Learning Management System (LMS) for our district. She designs the content for the training site. <and other duties to be named later>

9. So, what’s a ?

10. Moodle is the tool we’ll use to build our Learning Management System

11. M odular O bject O riented D ynamic L earning E nvironment

12. Moodle- verb To dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away. The process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as they occur. Enjoyable tinkering that may lead to insight and creativity.

13. Who Moodles? We’ll start with volunteer Professional Development Facilitators

14. When do we Moodle? Bill and Angela are training in August They’ll train the facilitators in September/October Facilitators will build their courses October/December Facilitators will start using their fantastic new sites by … Wait for it… Wait for it…

15. January 2012!

16. Questions? Comments? Contact: Bill at WCJohnson@ssdmo.org or Angela at alcartee@ssdmo.org

17. The end