come back to the class with my new precious

           Last week is so crazy for me. Thank god that I born a healthy little creature on July 23rd, right at the time. I have been prayed for a long time for its healthy because my ultrasound shows some weird signs when I came back to China. I was so worried even cannot sleep well and eat well. RIght now, while I am writing this blog, my baby was laying on the bed just beside me. How amazing!
         

           Last week, I tried Edmodo as one of the learning management systems. As I tried some of its features. I feel Edmodo is more appropriate for the k-12 settings that teachers can create quiz, activities, and group works through the system. I took two courses about learning management system from lynda.com before EME6414. Therefore, I knew besides Edmodo, there has other great learning management system, for example, moodle, schoology, desire to learn and so on.

           After trying some of the features of each learning management system, I think Schoology is the one contains the most instructional tools and features. Moreover, it has been designed for three main settings: k-12, higher education, and corporations. Therefore, instructional designers have more flexibility when they working with subject matter experts from each related field.
       
       

         In addition, Schoology using multiple tools and features to ensure various types of activities can be created through its system.

            To be specific, the features are listed above as instructional tools, communication and collaboration, mobile app, data analytics and personal learning, interoperability and assessment management.

            In instructional tools, there are functions for instructor or ISder to add rich media documents, to track and pace students individually, and engage students through the discussion board. The Schoology makes the learning "student-centered" and at the same time use data based tools to track students' progress. This definitely makes the online learning more predictable and reliable. I am starting to think and plan to use schoology for my produsage project. RIght now, I just need to continue forming my idea and decide which topic or subject I want to teach! So exciting!