Behind the Scenes        Head to Head        Postmodern Riff         

I sometimes run into teachers that mention they’ve used the MOO in class and never will again. Upon further pressing, they usually admit that their use of the MOO was restricted to one session that may or may not even have lasted an entire class meeting. In such cases, I guess they’re right to challenge the usefulness of a MOO. MOOs become pedagogically useful over time and with routine use. A student in my class put it this way: “at first I was a little hesitant about the different technologies that we were using in this class [. . . but] the MOO, for instance, really began to grow on me.” With time and repeated use, students and teachers get their bearing and figure out how to get more out of the experience.