Wk 3 -post 4 Wrapping up my Research

What a wonderful opportunity this year has been for me at Full Sail University.  I can't rave about this place enough.  I entered this program as an "emailer"  I used Facebook, socially and emailed for communication...I had NO Idea the whole new world that would open up to me!  I am now Blogging, I am refining my website and I have discovered a world full of educational tools that I can't wait to use in the classroom.  We have Moodle available to us to use so I thought I would start there.  I began my AR project focused on Moodle, quickly finding out in my research that there are other Learning Management Systems, LMS, to use in the classroom. After researching 20-25 resources, I began to write, I did what I could with a narrow topic, only to find out that my paper was reading like an annotated bibliography.  I got discouraged and showed my paper to my critical friends.  I was ready to hear anything and change whatever needed to be changed.  My critical friends suggested that I rewrite, yes, rewrite my paper.  Now I was going to have my focus be more general and include LMS.  There was much more research and it was very interesting to see how the systems had been tested and used in classrooms, or simply as interfaces for entire classes.  

The benefit for me in rewriting my AR Project was that all of the sudden, my cycles and data that I had collected, connected to all that I had read about.  I have completed the circle and come Full Circle with Full Sail.  I have learned so very much and enjoyed every moment of it.