Pennsylvania Coaches

"Mobilizing the Tennessee Board of Regents (mTBR) for new innovations of Emerging Technology and Mobile Devices and App Technology, Social Networking, Gaming, Simulations, Virtual Worlds for the purpose to increase recruiting, retention, graduation rates; to improve teaching, learning, and workforce development; and for meeting the needs of 21st Century Technological Mobilization Workforce"

"What is the value of a coach?"

Thoughts and a few great printables for hiring instructional coaches

A treasure trove of downloadables to assist the instructional coach!  Grab these. Now.

Cache of links to some yummy instructional coaching resources.

"This collection of tools are designed to assist in the development and understanding of coaches, teachers, and administrators. We hope you will find them helpful."

"CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS Introduction to three coaching models that provide highly effective professional development 10 tips for leveraging technology, coaching, and community 5 key benefits that result from the integration of technology, coaching, and community Introduction to the NETS*C"

Penn States Faculty Development Ning for Online and Continuing Education

Optimize use. Promote  adoption. Maximize success. That's what best practices are all about. Here are some resources to help you make the most of the Blackboard Collaborate™ platform at your academic institution.

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I want my students to...

Great collection of Google Form templates by Kern Kelley

for students

"This author's position is that asynchronous online discussions face an array of resolvable pedagogical and course management challenges. Online discussions can transform mere course chatter into a cyber forum of student-centered learning through meticulous planning, designing and orchestrating. After introducing common issues, a literature review summarizes the contributions that online discussions bring to distance learning. The author then addresses pedagogical and managerial issues that plague online discussions with strategies that instructors may readily employ. In the pedagogical realm, these include insights on organizing online discussions, using groups to facilitate interactions, establishing discussion parameters, and ensuring that the course syllabus introduces online discussion details. In the managerial realm, approaches are offered regarding overseeing discussion windows, using icebreakers, assessing student performance, ongoing communications, maintaining an online presence, netiquette, and a variety of other online discussion tips. In support of online instructors, the article weaves in relevant literature with the hard learned lessons from the author's ongoing attempts to improve online discussions. It concludes by urging instructors to cultivate improvement continuously through candid self-critique supplemented by student feedback."

Study using voicethread for online discussion