@Dan
Thanks Dan. I know this ain’t the first time someone is doing something like this (get students to teach teachers – I think Mary Cooch is doing a similar thing…and that’s just from the few people I know) but it is as you say a worthy model. You are absolutely spot on about the culture.

The larger aim of this whole thing is not necessarily (just) learning to use Moodle but to eke at the self-defeating culture of ‘minimal effort’, ‘we don’t innovate because we are not such a good school/smart’ etc that can be so damaging around our school among staff and students alike.

I have had exactly the problems you speak of. Some of it was because kids were ’socialising online’ everywhere (ie Moodle became ’school thing’ and as such quietly loathed – let’s not pretend here), but mostly because of the (lack of) inertia on the kids part themselves. For example, the Student Corner was running well at the time of that video clip last year (Moodle change a school), now it is gathering dust.

Time will tell, many things can go wrong but I prefer die trying than die wondering. My gut feel says this is a step in the right direction. As I say right at the start – there ain’t ‘the best’ model in the world.

Cheers & thanks for taking the time to comment.

@Tim

EXACTLY! Thanks for reminding us of the link, I remember it from the days of making the “Moodle like Lego” video. Cheers
Tomaz