Mr. Patrick Malley

Time for a Refresh

With all the enthusiasm of a teenage girl deciding the perfect background for her Myspace page, I’m happy to introduce the fourth redesign for this site in five years.

I purchased this domain with the intent of offering course content on the web. Two weeks before class started my first year teaching, I stumbled upon Moodle, the course management system that I would eventually implement districtwide and build a business around.

Well, now that the district uses Moodle and I’ve started a proper blog, this site has failed to serve a practical purpose for some time. Nevertheless, I’ve been unable to get rid of it. Past students always know where to find me. Google seems to find me here quite well, too. And, I’ve always thought the domain had a good professional appeal for an educator.

Thus, let me introduce, Mrmalley.com 4.0 - a repository for my lesson plans, professional resume, and thoughts about class and learning, in general. I can’t promise that the site will be updated too frequently, but I do hope to keep it as current as I possibly can.

For the geeks in the audience, I’ve built the new site on Expression Engine, my absolute favorite content management system of all time. While the details of how the lesson plan pages will look and function are still to be determined, I can say this: once set-up, writing lesson plans will be as easy as filling out an online form. I’m pretty excited about this, so I’m sure I’ll write about it more when I have it running.

Other than that, I fully realize the links to the right don’t yet go anywhere. I’ve already spent two hours I didn’t have getting this far. I’ll have to steal some time to finish from another day.