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emerging technologies
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I believe that teachers need to be required to stay up to date with the ever changing technology. I have not been forced until now and am feeling way behind. Our students are submersed in a technology world and that is what they now find engaging.
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Selects and uses technologies appropriate to the content that enhance learning (SREB M.3, Varvel IV.D, ITS 3.e, ITS 4.f)
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There are so many different tools out there it can become very overwhelming in trying to find what will do the job the best.
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Is knowledgeable and has the ability to use computer programs required in online education to improve learning and teaching, including course management software (CMS) and synchronous/asynchronous communication tools (chat, email, web 2.0, videoconferencing, webinar, whiteboard, etc.) (SREB B.3, Varvel III.B)
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It is essential that if a teacher is going to use the technology with their students that they first have a strong knowledge base of the technology.
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Assists students with technology used in the course (Varvel III.C)
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It is so important to help students with their onine learning and to be engaged with them. Even though students are using the computer, it is necessary to be actively involved instead of just sitting behind the desk thinking the computer will do all the teaching for you.
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Establishes standards for student behavior that are designed to ensure academic integrity and appropriate use of the internet and written communication (SREB E.2)
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It seems that students need to be reminded over and over about proper computer ettiquette. Some of them just don't see the harm or the danger in some of the things that they do. Developing rules/ standards with other teachers or having building wide standards is necessary. It is also important to post the rules and have set consequences for inappropriate use.
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Instructions to students on how to meet the learning objectives are adequate and stated
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It iis so important that teachers tell our students what the learning objectives are and give students very clear, step by step instructions on how to meet those objectives.
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Demonstrates effective instructional strategies and techniques, appropriate for online education, that align with course objectives and assessment
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I think this is very important. Especially when talking about doing online instruction. When it is online you do not have the ability to change on the fly. Everything must be very well planned. Crisis management must be thought of ahead of time. -
Agreed. An online instructor, must be well organized and think through all of the curriculum prior to teaching an online class. I believe these strategies are essential in the face-to-face classroom; however, in the face-to-face environment, there is the opportunity for changing your lesson at a moment's notice. Online is not quite as easy, nor should the learner be faced with the stress of an unorganized teacher.
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Creates or selects multiple assessment instruments that are appropriate for online learning
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This is the beauty of online instruction. You can have different people using different tools. Differentiation at its finest.
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Utilizes a course evaluation and student feedback data to improve the course
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As an instructor, I find student feedback is valuable in making future improvements for an online class. Many times, in the online environment, it may be difficult to know if students felt confident and/or struggled with how the class was set up; management, instructor feedback, etc. Course evaluation provide an invaluable insight from the learner, if the evaluation is done correctly and confidetially for the learner.
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I agree! Any way of knowing how you can make sure everyone gives feedback yet make it confidential?
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Understands the differences between teaching online and teaching face-to-face
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Teaching online versus face-to-face has many differences. The most challenging difference is creating a collaborative and meaningful environment amongst your learners. As an instructor, teamwork and grouping is important within the online environment. Also, creating instruction and assessments to encourage collaborative learning is essential. Too many times, face-to-face teachers believe teaching online means less work. They are incorrect. My experience as an online instructor, is many times, the workload of an onine class, can be twice the work due to 24/7 communication with students. Assessments tend to be more thorough as well, creating more time and work by the instructor.
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Anytime I learn using collaborative instruction I not only retain more, but I feel like I have more resources for future learning in the new friends/colleagues made. This rarely happens for me face-to-face as I am not as good with in-person social interaction.
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Well said Barb, if the collaborative environment is not there, essential learning will not take place. And yes, it is more work. I also agree with Amy regarding the retention. I am more of a visual learner and I love having resources available to me that I can access at any time. With our students now growing up in such a digital world I feel the more we can offer them to increase their learning style, the better our students will be. I also wonder what may happen to our communication skills if some students are always allowed to only do online instruction?
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Designs the structure of the course and the presentation of the content to best enhance student learning, including using unit/lesson overviews and reviews, using patterns in lesson sequencing, and using appropriate visual web design techniques
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Agreed. It can be easy to go crazy adding in all kinds of technology and images. But this can be overwhelming. Think of an ADHD learner and how they learn best without all the distractions.
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I think this benchmark is important because students learn in different ways, and by using different techniques more students will be successful.
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Maintains an online social presence that is available, approachable, positive, interactive, and sincere
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Maintaining an online presence is vital to an online course. Both my son and daughter have taken online courses for college credit and some amounted to not much more than reading assignments and online quizes. With so little contact with the instructor, they were hesitant to ask for help or discuss issues they had with ambiguous or poor test questions. -
I agree. Students need to feel comfortable communicating with the instructor so they don't get behind. We all have gmail accounts in our school and students contact teachers with questions all the time - I like to know if they need help.
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Has experienced online learning from the perspective of a student (SREB F.1, Varvel II.E)
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After taking this course, I totally agree with this one! Seeing things from a student's point of view is essential for a successful experience. As a teacher, you may think you have explained everything clearly and that your course is easy to navigate through, however, this may not be the case.
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I agree with you Ann. I went to college later in life and was able to take many classes online to get my degree. I found those staff who had regular classroom hours for weekly discussion to be more beneficial to me. I had one class that had little to no classroom instruction other than weekly assignments. I did not hear from the teacher until the class was over and I found out my grade. In regards, I did not learn much from that class.
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• Understands and uses course content that complies with intellectual property rights and fair use, and assists students in complying as well (SREB E.5, Varvel I.B)
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I teach the students in my technology unit about copyright and how material on the internet is not just free to use, it falls under certain rights of the author. We need to model this to students, and teach them the proper way to use information, citing information, checking to see if they can use the pictures they get from an image search, etc., and about fair use.
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Knows and aligns instruction to the achievement goal
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Instructors should know what the achievement goals are and if they align with the Iowa Core. Students need to be clear about what is expected of them, too. Standard based!
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Knows the content of the subject to be taught and understands how to teach the content to students
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It is important that the instructor have a good background in the content knowledge, the learning targets and what standards/knowledge is to be assessed.
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Is knowledgeable and has the ability to use computer programs
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This is important for an effective online instruction, if a student doesn't know how to use a program they need to be able to go to the instructor for guidance. If the instructor doesn't know how to use it, the effectiveness of the learning process will not take place.
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Tailors instruction to meet the different needs of students, including different learning styles, different interests and backgrounds, and students with special needs or whom are language learners
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This has to be an advantage to using a website such as Moodle to allow students to work at different levels. Assignments can be given and collected through Moodle that allow all students to be challeneged in their own way.
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Sets and models clear expectations for appropriate behavior and proper interaction
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I find it interesting how students can turn collaborative websites into facebook walls and chat sessions. Students need to realize what is appropriate in a high school learning environment and when additional comments just are not needed.
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Identifies and communicates learning outcomes and expectations through a course overview/orientation
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It is essential that the course be highly organized with clear learning targets and expectations through the overview/orientation so that the student can easily follow along as the course progresses.
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Continuously uses data to evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of instructional strategies
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This standard is so imporant as it is referring to formative assessment which is the driving force behind our daily instruction with students. -
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Understands student motivation and uses techniques to engage students
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Yes, technology is important not only in the classroom but also in studnets everyday life.
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Aligns assessment with course objectives
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Switch course objectives to learning targets and this standard also is aligned with formative assessment or standard based grading.
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Understands and uses data from assessments to guide instruction (SREB J, ITS 5.c)
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Demonstrates ethical conduct as defined by state law and local policies or procedures (ITS 8.a, ITS 8.b
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Working in a district that has implemented a 1:1 initiative, I understand the importance of correct modeling of technology use. It is easy to tell students what they CAN'T do, but how often do we show them what they CAN?
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Communicates with students effectively and consistently (SREB D.1, ITS 1.g)
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What better way to increase communication with students than using online teaching tools? Students have been raised in a technological world and are encompassed by it almost literally all day. If this is how kids communicate with each other, why can't we?
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Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps to Improve a Student's or Professor's Productivity | OEDb - 4 views
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This site could be useful for students in a writing course. Students could keep track of story ideas and thoughts in the personal notebook. For collaborative groups there is a group notebook. Groups would have the opportunity to build off of the work of others. -
A free online notebook based on wiki. Create pages and share files. Allows group members to easily collaborate. Advanced search, numerous templates, and 2GB of free file storage.
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Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick - 0 views
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great Post-it note program for students to collaborate information and come back to later.
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The requirements for student work, including student interaction, are clearly articulated
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When you give instruction in class, it is much more convenient and easier for students to ask you to clarify any part of the assignment. Instructions and requirements given online need to be much more articulated than if they were read in class.
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All resources and materials used in the course are appropriately cited and obey copyright and fair use.
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Can someone clarify something for me? I was once told that I could post a document to a website for educational purposes as long as the website was password protected. For example, I could make a copy out of a textbook, convert it to a pdf file and post it to my Moodle website so students wouldn't have to bring their textbook home with them to complete an assignment. Is this disobeying copyright laws.
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I used this some this year but will hope to use it more next year as a tool in my classroom.
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JASON Lesson Plans
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Engage the class using any device
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I have not used this yet. The kids like it because they get to use their own technology.
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Instruction provides students with multiple learning paths to master the content, addressing individual student needs, learning styles and preferences.
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So much information and so many paths available, students need to learn to be good consumers while instructors available for guidance or direction.
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Continuously uses data to evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of instructional strategies
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I think the continous improvement cycle is critical to grow and improve instruction.
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I think the word "continuously" will be very challenging for many teachers. I work with teachers who progress monitor on a weekly basis and they struggle to collect the data as specified in their students' paperwork. Then to use that data to guide instructional decision making and in a timely manner is even more problematic. -
The tool I'm going to focus on is Poll Everywhere, a site that allows instructors to embed polls within presentations. I think that could be a way to provide formative assessment. In addition, the online coursework I participated in for my BCBA required us to answer questions throughout our video lectures. We then had to answer the questions in the university's LMS and our instructors were able to use that to see how we were doing with the content prior to exams. Maybe these two tools could address on-going assessment? -
How would "continuously" be defined for "Online Learning"? Daily, weekly, monthly data collection through formative and summative assessments of instructional concepts and strategies is my assumption.
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Understands student motivation and uses techniques to engage student
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I do understand the importance of student engagement but how do we do this online?!
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I think that online learning is much more challenging due to the limited human interaction. I want students to be engaged so that they not only benefit but contribute to the community.
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Designs the structure of the course and the presentation of the content to best enhance student learning, including using unit/lesson overviews and reviews, using patterns in lesson sequencing, and using appropriate visual web design techniques (SREB C.14, Varvel V.F)
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The expectation of "on-line" learning such as a Wiki where special education documentation tools that are used daily by teachers are located as well as researched-based instructional strategies for interventions and the latest in Web 2.0 tools will enhance awareness in how to use them as well as the research behind the tool to enhance student learning, via an easily asessable learning method.
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Designing an online course which enhances student learning related to course structure and presentation may be the most challenging standard listed on this page. With students' various levels of access to technology and theri varying abilities and expreience with the tools used increase the challenge of differentitation ten fold.
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Designing an online course which enhances student learning related to course structure and presentation may be the most challenging standard listed on this page. With students' various levels of access to technology and their varying abilities and expreience with the tools used increase the challenge of differentitation ten fold.
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• Creates a learning community that encourages collaboration and interaction, including student-teacher, student-student, and student-content (SREB D.2, Varvel VII.B, ITS 6.a)
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This goes along with what MaryAnn highlighted above on motivation and engagement. I've participated in several online courses and I came up with a list of ways my instructors helped make the course more engaging and interactive. Here's my list: polls, quizzes on content, requiring discussion posts/comments on others' posts, face-to-face time through ICN/Adobe Connect, and interactive activities.
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Creates or selects multiple assessment instruments that are appropriate for online learning
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Assessments need to be created with the learning modalities of students in mind.
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not limited to) age and ability level, multiple intelligences, didactic conversation, student
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Tailors instruction to meet the different needs of students, including different learning styles, different interests and backgrounds, and students with special needs or whom are language learners
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Has experienced online learning from the perspective of a student (SREB F.1, Varvel II.E)
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Experiencing a variety of well-oranized classes from a variety of topic areas would help immensely to get sense of how pieces come together before attempting to put own class together.
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Denise, this is my favorite site that I use most often. It allows you to convert files for free. I use it for downloading online videos and saving them to PowerPoint presentations. My screen name for Diigolet is cprice143. Carol
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One professor's experience using Poll Everywhere, including feedback from a student. Great for adult learning, and likely high school students would benefit as well.
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Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System | Poll Everywhere - 0 views
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Can't wait to explore this more. What a great way to do formative assessment without cumbersome clickers.
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Has experienced online learning from the perspective of a student (SREB F.1, Varvel II.E)
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As an online student right now, I definitely understand the frustrations other students may face when taking an online course!
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Maintains an online social presence that is available, approachable, positive, interactive, and sincere (SREB C.3, Varvel VII.A)
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Yes, an online teacher would definitely have to be positive and patient to deal with students like me.
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