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  • You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
    • Carol Price
      Carol Price on 20 Mar 12
       
      Try Wordle out for yourself. It is as easy to use as it is fun.
  • Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
  • Carol Price on 20 Mar 12
     
    Wordle is a neat and fun tool for teachers to use in various ways in their classrooms. For example, concepts can be typed in and as a concept is repeated, the word enlarges. One of my schools used it to determine which words to use in their vision statement. The result became a beautiful work of art.
  • Meg Tvrdik on 25 Mar 12
     
    Great resource for interactive activities for kids.
Carol Price

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    • Carol Price
      Carol Price on 21 Mar 12
       
      This is the video.
  • Webinar: Aligning Tiered Interventions with High School Initiatives
Carol Price

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  • Carol Price on 21 Mar 12
     
    This site reviews cloud storage. I'm interested in getting an ipad and I've been wondering about cloud storage.
Carol Price

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    • Carol Price
      Carol Price on 20 Mar 12
       
      Click on the headers: Resources, Publications, and Nine Elements to see the wealth of information available on this Website.
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  • Carol Price on 20 Mar 12
     
    This Website will provide teachers and parents with important information about how to use technology responsibility.
Chad Jilek

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    • ksteingr
      ksteingr on 15 Sep 10
       
      What information do we have about this group? Looks like the research is very new - http://www.inacol.org/research/reports.php Makes it sound like deep undercover reporting, but I was just curious. I had never heard of INACOL. :-)
    • Evan Abbey
      Evan Abbey on 18 Sep 10
       
      iNACOL was originally NACOL (they went "international" in 2008). They have been around about 8 years now, and are recognized as the national leader in organizations build around quality online learning. They are analogous to an ASCD. In Iowa, Gwen Nagel from Iowa Learning Online is a member and contributor, as is Marcel Kielkucki, director of Kirkwood Community College's High School Distance Learning Program. Marcel and Gwen presented last November at iNACOL's conference on the current setup of online learning in Iowa. You are going to find that most research in online learning is extremely new. The reseach du jour is comparing online to F2F, in which case there are many (many!) studies that have come out. None of the studies are older than 2006, and most have come in the last 18 months.
  • The course instruction includes activities that engage students in active learning. • Instruction provides students with multiple learning paths to master the content, addressing individual student needs, learning styles and preferences.
    • Janet Kinman
      Janet Kinman on 15 Sep 10
       
      Engagement at a level you would expect in a traditional classroom is key. Online instruction has to be differentiated, and not a "dump" of information.
    • Phyllis Anderson
      Phyllis Anderson on 23 Jan 11
       
      Online instruction might more readily provide an environment in which students can take different paths for learning.I am thinking it might be easier to incorporate UDL (Universal Design for Learning) in this environment.
  • The course makes maximum appropriate use of online tools outside of the CMS (including email, web 2.0, chat, videoconferencing, and whiteboard) to enhance learning
    • Pam Buysman
      Pam Buysman on 17 Sep 10
       
      Moodle certainly has a number of built in tools for the course developer to to use. There is an internal blog and wiki available, but perhaps, wikis and blogs that are available outside of Moodle will better serve the needs of the participants. We need to choose what is most appropriate to meet the objectives of our course. What will best enhance the learning experience for our students? In order to do that of course, we'll need to have an awareness and also a certain amount of expertise to have students utilize these tools.
    • Drinda Williams
      Drinda Williams on 16 Jan 11
       
      I agree--we need a certain amount of expertise. It's so discouraging to participants when the tools we're trying to use don't work as expected.
    • linda vann
      linda vann on 22 Jan 11
       
      Just as in a face-to-face classroom, there are techniques for engaging learning. Those techniques need to be mastered in order to be effective. The same with online tools - they must be mastered and understood in order to effective. The great news with any learning is that it is quite collaborative - students learn from teachers as much as teachers learn from students. I think this is certainly true in the online environment.
    • Corrine Breitsprecker
      Corrine Breitsprecker on 24 Jan 11
       
      The added challenge is that there are new tools constantly available. Keeping up on the new tools and their uses worries me!
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  • Proposed Online Course Standards
    • Drinda Williams
      Drinda Williams on 16 Jan 11
       
      Evan, are these the standards that will be used to vet proposed courses for the statewide moodle through Heartland? At AEA 267 we were discussing how course proposals would be evaluated and approved.
    • Evan Abbey
      Evan Abbey on 27 Jan 11
       
      Yes and no. The standards will be used for instructional designers/instructors as they build courses, and by evaluators as they review courses. But they are not formally part of the course proposal process.
  • STUDENT ASSESSMENT
    • Drinda Williams
      Drinda Williams on 16 Jan 11
       
      This is one that I'm finding somewhat challenging. If I am asking teachers to implement, how do I provide sufficient feedback? Reading a lesson plan is not the same as seeing them implement. I'm wondering if AEA consultants around the state might cooperate in some observations.
    • Jason Martin-Hiner
      Jason Martin-Hiner on 17 Jan 11
       
      Here's an idea: digital video of the teacher in the classroom that could be submitted/uploaded to the course site (i.e. the ever-popular Flip video). Feedback could be given by using an audio overlay of the video (almost like the audio commentary track on a DVD) or posting comments to a forum (if it was group feedback).
    • linda vann
      linda vann on 22 Jan 11
       
      I have actually used that technique as a student in a online course. We (class members) were able to provide feedback to each other on the submitted videos. We posted comments to a discussion board, we did not have the technology at that time to use an audio overlay. It was very effective and quite entertaining to get lots of different perspectives on our experiences.
    • Valerie Jergens
      Valerie Jergens on 24 Jan 11
       
      Linda- Were you given a rubric or other reference to compare other students' work against? I wonder if without something like that, if students would give the "nice job" and "great" feedback instead of something more constructive and meaningful. How do you guard against that?
  • students to engage in higher-order thinking, critical-reasoning activities and thinking in increasingly complex ways.
    • Peggy Christensen
      Peggy Christensen on 18 Jan 11
       
      In science, we are always looking for ways to engage students in higher-order thinking skills. I'm sure it provides different challenges when you are teaching online.
    • Steve Bartlett
      Steve Bartlett on 21 Jan 11
       
      I would agree that engagement with online is a challenge when I compare it to engagement in an inquiry based lesson where there is active interaction between students working with hands on materials.
  • clear, complete course overview and syllabus
    • Peggy Christensen
      Peggy Christensen on 18 Jan 11
       
      Because you are not face-to-face (or if you are teaching a blended/hybrid course and have limited face-to-face interaction), you need to make sure your course overview and syllabus are clear and complete.
    • Valerie Jergens
      Valerie Jergens on 24 Jan 11
       
      Right, Peggy. I think in the classroom I have relied on students' questions as a way to help me describe what I am thinking/asking for. In an online environment, this doesn't work. It would be a lot more pressure for me as the teacher.
  • timely and frequent feedback about student progress based on the learning targets.
    • Eldon Bird
      Eldon Bird on 19 Jan 11
       
      How important is this! Probably even more important today when students are accustomed to instant feedback whenever they access technology.
    • Steve Bartlett
      Steve Bartlett on 21 Jan 11
       
      Feedback along the way is so important especially when one is not sure they are on the right path to meeting a targeted goal
    • Kelsey Bova
      Kelsey Bova on 22 Jan 11
       
      It is also important to not only give instant feedback along the way, but MEANINGFUL feedback. Students don't get anything out of a "good job!" or "nicely done!" I always have to put myself in the students' shoes and think of what meaningful feedback I would like and make it specific towards that individual student and his/her work.
    • Joe Brekke
      Joe Brekke on 07 Feb 11
       
      I agree, Kelsey, it is important to give meaningful feedback. It is so difficult to keep up with students when the numbers reach 175-180, as they are beginning to in my district.
  • (CP) • The course provider offers the course teacher, school coordinator assistance with technical support and course management.
    • Erica Larson
      Erica Larson on 20 Jan 11
       
      I am curious who provides will provide this support in future OLLIE courses?
  • 21st century skills
    • James Webb
      James Webb on 21 Jan 11
       
      21st Century Skills has become something of a hollow buzz word to me, I'm afraid. Is it just a matter of aligning traditional thinking with new technology? Or is there something "new" here that I'm missing? And how much direction do you think students need with technology itself? How much of this in intuitive with them?
    • Phyllis Anderson
      Phyllis Anderson on 23 Jan 11
       
      Our 21st C. Iowa Core Skills include more than technology skills. They also include concepts and skills in civic literacy, health literacy, employability, and financial literacy. Do the additional areas make 21st. C Skills seem less hollow?
    • James Webb
      James Webb on 23 Jan 11
       
      I suppose. I get the concept, and I want to believe, but I feel like these are things they've always needed to know. Are we just re-naming what we're already doing?
    • Alan Junck
      Alan Junck on 24 Jan 11
       
      And how much will these change in the next 10 years? It seems like we need to teach more about being flexible in regards to technology.
  • instructor-student and student-student interaction to foster mastery and application of the material and a plan for monitoring that interaction.
    • linda vann
      linda vann on 23 Jan 11
       
      The need for formative assessment continues to be vital in the online environment so mastery can be monitored and adjustments made when mastery is being challenged. As an online learner, it is important for me to know in advance what supports are available when I need them.
  • Ongoing and frequent assessments are conducted to verify each student’s readiness for the next lesson.
    • linda vann
      linda vann on 23 Jan 11
       
      It seems that the ongoing and frequent assessment process is critical and I believe actually a bit easier in the online environment. The ease comes from the direct nature of the interaction between instructor-student and student-student interactions. Sometimes in a crowded F2F classroom, this can be more challenging.
    • Christopher Soldat
      Christopher Soldat on 03 Feb 11
       
      In a classroom setting, formative assessment would inform the classroom teachers thinking about instruction for the next part of the unit. How will that look in an online asynchronous learning environment?
  • The course is organized into units and lessons.
    • Jeny Schoenhard
      Jeny Schoenhard on 24 Jan 11
       
      This stands out for me because I feel that sometimes as educators we get excited about a new teaching tool or method and it is so important to remember to provide manageable portions for our students so that they are not overwhelmed and have the ability to completely understand an area of learning.
  • Assessment strategies and tools, such as "self-check" or practice assignments, make the student continuously aware of his/her progress in class and mastery of the content beyond letter grades.
    • Jeny Schoenhard
      Jeny Schoenhard on 24 Jan 11
       
      What a fantastic benefit to students! Self Check and practice assignments are a wonderful tool to use so that student know when they are on the right track.
  • The course instructions articulate or link to a clear description of the technical support offered.
    • Corrine Breitsprecker
      Corrine Breitsprecker on 24 Jan 11
       
      This is really important! My work has been with adult learners rather than school-age students, and I think adults are more tentative and less comfortable just "trying things out" with technology that is new to them. Whether adult or school-age, learners need to know that there is technical support available when needed and how to get that help.
  • Instructions to students on how to meet the learning objectives are adequate and stated clearly.
    • Chad Jilek
      Chad Jilek on 10 Feb 12
       
      I have taken online courses where these weren't clear and those courses were not fun. When someone is not there to answer all your questions the student needs to have the expectations layed out with a good amount of detail.
  • The course is easy and logical to navigate, including self-describing links
    • Chad Jilek
      Chad Jilek on 10 Feb 12
       
      Most students that take an online course will have no problem nagivating through it but there will be times when it is a students first time with online learning or have to take the course online out of necessity and if the technology aspect of the learning is difficult the learning outcomes probably won't be very good.
  • Janet Kinman on 15 Sep 10
     
    This is a key piece to online instruction. If you just dump all your materials online, this is not effective online teaching.
  • linda vann on 23 Jan 11
     
    "instructor-student and student-student interaction to foster mastery and application of the material and a plan for monitoring that interaction. "
  • Christopher Soldat on 03 Feb 11
     
    "instructor-student and student-student interaction to foster mastery and application of the material and a plan for monitoring that interaction. "
Chad Jilek

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  • Proposed Online Teaching Standards
    • Valerie Jergens
      Valerie Jergens on 21 Jan 11
       
      Many of these standards would be good for teachers who are not teaching "online" but using technology in their classrooms. I wonder if there will be a push for all teachers in 1:1 schools to know these and have some skill with them.
    • David Happe
      David Happe on 23 Jan 11
       
      Good point, Valerie. It seems that online instructional approaches are a subset of practices in which students operate sometimes independently and sometimes with feedback from and interaction with peers and teacher interaction and feedback that is not necessarily immediate.
    • Alan Junck
      Alan Junck on 24 Jan 11
       
      How long will it take for administrators/principals to be trained on these?  While these should apply to any course (online or classroom) I would assume very few teachers have seen something like this before.
  • Knows and aligns instruction to the achievement goals of the local agency and the state, such as with the Iowa Core
    • r kleinow
      r kleinow on 21 Jan 11
       
      I would agree that knowing and aligning the instruction with the learning goal is a key piece. I have seen numerous occasions where things are done because 1. That is what has always been done. 2. Someone found a neat toy to use. or 3. There is a new catch phrase going around. With little or no thought given to what the intended goal of the instruction is and what we would like the learner to know and be able to do. I think it is always important to revisit the question of what is the goal and what is the best way to help the learn get to that goal. The design of the learning expereience on-line or not should address this consideration. So, intended or not, I am glad to see this here and at the top of the list.
    • Joe Brekke
      Joe Brekke on 07 Feb 11
       
      Agreed, r kleinow. Well said. I've heard that our new Governor has decided to abandon the Iowa Core all together. Any thoughts?
  • Understands and uses data from assessments to guide instruction
    • r kleinow
      r kleinow on 21 Jan 11
       
      I am a believer that the single most improtant thing a teacher needs to know is what the learner already knows. I beleive the saying goes "find that out then instruct accordingly". I have always been challenged to find effieceint methods of doing this, but I think there are number of technology tools that can help to facilitate this process.
    • Steve Bartlett
      Steve Bartlett on 21 Jan 11
       
      This is a big part of the course we are developiing using CTS. Using the Keeley probes helps with finding out about what a learner understands. The challenge is to use or create the right probe that can give the teacher the feedback they need to differentiate the instruction
    • linda vann
      linda vann on 22 Jan 11
       
      Without understanding the learner's starting point or needs, instruction is just a "dump and pray they understand it" proposition. If instruction builds on the learner's prior knowledge, then the new information has something to attach to and has more of a chance of being understood and retained.
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  • • Demonstrates techniques for dealing with issues arising from inappropriate student technological use (SREB E.7)
    • Greg Sleep
      Greg Sleep on 21 Jan 11
       
      We are on our second year of one-one laptops in our school. We had a intense training for dealing with appropriate use of technology. That training dealt with plagerism, social networking and consequences. We as staff were also trained in this area. It is a part of our student handbook as well.
    • linda vann
      linda vann on 22 Jan 11
       
      Demonstrating responsible use of technology is equivalent to learning manners while eating, listening while someone else is speaking, and other etiquette skills we are all taught at appropriate ages. Dealing with inappropriate use of technology is absolutely necessary to ensure its continued safe use for all learners.
    • Alan Junck
      Alan Junck on 24 Jan 11
       
      Is there a "standard" acceptable use policy across the state or does it vary from school to school?  
  • Understands the differences between teaching online and teaching face-to-face (SREB C.1, Varvel V)
    • Steve Bartlett
      Steve Bartlett on 21 Jan 11
       
      Who decides if the content is appropriate for the online environment?
    • Steve Van Gundy
      Steve Van Gundy on 22 Jan 11
       
      That's a good question. And I'm guessing it would vary depending on the subject?
  • Knows the content of the subject to be taught and understands how to teach the content to students (SREB A.3, Varvel II.A, ITS 2.a)
    • Steve Bartlett
      Steve Bartlett on 21 Jan 11
       
      Who would be responsible for deciding if a teacher has the content knowledge and best practice skills to teach that content?
    • David Happe
      David Happe on 23 Jan 11
       
      A structural limitation of many systems is that when leaders (expert consultants, administrators) are chosen, they immediately stop practicing what they were good at and what made them good choices to be leaders. Wise use of online communities may help provide support to teachers in content and best practice as both change rapidly. Deciding if a teacher has skills - well, that's another matter.
    • Rick Vettraino
      Rick Vettraino on 31 Jan 11
       
      This is very important to both classroom and online learning. The more we become experts in our subject it becomes easier to lead student learning.
  • 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 (SREB C.7, Varvel V.H, ITS 4.c)
    • Steve Bartlett
      Steve Bartlett on 21 Jan 11
       
      I am curious how an instructor can ascertain learning styles of students. There are some tools that I have used with students in the classroom to uncover this. I suppose using those tools online wouldn't be that hard
    • Lynda Wilson
      Lynda Wilson on 23 Jan 11
       
      I too,am curious about this in an on-line environment. Just as all teachers have different strength and teaching styles, students do too. I am not quite sure how you would figure that out in an on-line environment or how youw ould tailor instruction to meet those differnt learnign styles.
    • David Happe
      David Happe on 23 Jan 11
       
      UDL (universal design for learning) promotes providing all students with multiple means of learning, multiple means of demonstrating learning and multiple means of engagement. A pretty good trick face-to-face and a greater challenge online: http://www.cast.org/udl/index.html
    • Rick Vettraino
      Rick Vettraino on 31 Jan 11
       
      Sometime this can be as easy as embedding a video of the teacher explaining a lesson. Just the student being able to stop and review it as many times as they need will help. As long as I have been in instructional technology it is always easier for me to be able to stop and go over a section of a tutorial as I am trying to create with that technology.
  • • Understands student motivation and uses techniques to engage students (Varvel V.D, ITS 4.d)
    • Greg Sleep
      Greg Sleep on 21 Jan 11
       
      I feel that if a person was going from face-to-face instruction to partial or totally online instruction there would be a total change of how you motivate learners. Maybe I'm wrong on that or I'm still thinking of the way I was taught and how I learn. I know that today's students are electronically gift no matter what their test taking abilities are.
    • Jeremy Nally
      Jeremy Nally on 21 Jan 11
       
      I think one of the ways that can motivate them is by giving immediate feedback. Students like to see how they do on things and if they take a quiz, assignment or test online they can see right away how they did instead of having to wait on the teacher to grade them. Now this would motivate all of them and it wouldn't work on all tests, quizzes or assignments, but it may be one way to motivate the students.
    • Kelsey Bova
      Kelsey Bova on 22 Jan 11
       
      For our reading curriculum, we have our students take the tests online and they have immediate feedback and are able to see their average score from taking all of the tests. I agree that the immediate feedback is what students want. It's easier for students to create goals based on their achievement on these tests. They are also able to go back to see what questions they got wrong right away and are able to look and make sense of what the correct answer is, etc.
    • linda vann
      linda vann on 22 Jan 11
       
      Motivation comes from internal needs. It does not need to be (and if fact is better) if it is intrinsic, not extrinsic. Learners are motivated by correct learning and understanding. The more immediate the feedback on that, the more the motivation. I have a quote in my office that says, "Motivation is not enough. If you motivate an idiot, all you have is a motivated idiot." Knowledge is power and knowledge is motivating.
    • Lynda Wilson
      Lynda Wilson on 23 Jan 11
       
      Kelsey, I would be intersted in how you do your reading tests on-line. If I remember correctly, you are an elementary teacher. This is something I would definitely like to explore.......because like you say immediate feedback is so important.
  • Assists students with technology used in the course
    • Jeremy Nally
      Jeremy Nally on 21 Jan 11
       
      I think it is important to make sure the material is whats important and not overwelm the students with technology. I really like when technology tutorials are added with the assignment or lesson. This helps me focus more on the material and worry less about if I can figure out the technology.
    • Steve Van Gundy
      Steve Van Gundy on 22 Jan 11
       
      And I think a lot of the students these days could probably figure out the technology quicker than a lot of us teachers, but mastering the content is what we are all after.
    • Rick Vettraino
      Rick Vettraino on 31 Jan 11
       
      Like this course it is good to have tutorials or lessons on the technology we have the students use. That way it is available to the student if they need it. This would be a great advantage in online learning because the student would be embarrassed if they did not know how to use the technology.
    • Kelsey Bova
      Kelsey Bova on 22 Jan 11
       
      I really like this bullet in the standard because it is so important that a teacher continuously evaluates the data in order to determine whether or not their strategies are effective to their students. I know that us teachers at Norwalk are always having to evaluate our data and determining what is working and what we need to change in order to target those students that our instructional strategies are not hitting. This is key to becoming and staying an effective teacher and keeping up with our student body as they are changing yearly with different materials and strategies coming out to enhance learning.
  • Creates a learning community that encourages collaboration and interaction, including student-teacher, student-student, and student-content
    • Kelsey Bova
      Kelsey Bova on 22 Jan 11
       
      If they're talking about the 21st century skills that these students need to know and what not in order to become a successful worker in today's world, then I strongly feel that interaction and collaboration is a huge key component of our students' success. It's vital that others understand the thought process of other individuals; yet, still explaining their thoughts and working together with their peers/teachers/content on a project at hand. It teaches kids social skills that they need to become successful in the outside world. It's always nice to learn from one another and to teach someone something new :)
    • Christopher Soldat
      Christopher Soldat on 03 Feb 11
       
      I think this is the powerful part of an online community; that is the sense that they are a learning community.
  • Continuously uses data to evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of instructional strategies
    • Kelsey Bova
      Kelsey Bova on 22 Jan 11
       
      I really like this bullet in the standard because it is so important that a teacher continuously evaluates the data in order to determine whether or not their strategies are effective to their students. I know that us teachers at Norwalk are always having to evaluate our data and determining what is working and what we need to change in order to target those students that our instructional strategies are not hitting. This is key to becoming and staying an effective teacher and keeping up with our student body as they are changing yearly with different materials and strategies coming out to enhance learning.
    • Lynda Wilson
      Lynda Wilson on 23 Jan 11
       
      I totally agree with using data to evaluate our teaching practices and students learning. If my first graders are not doing well in something I have taught, the first thing I look at is what could I do different to make them more successful. This would be true wheter it is on-line instruction or face-to-face instruction.
  • Demonstrates growth in technology knowledge and skills in order to stay current with emerging technologies
    • Tera Schechinger
      Tera Schechinger on 22 Jan 11
       
      Growth will be so much easier to assess in a digital world. Our digitial thumb print can easily be accessed adn evaluated over time. Paper and ver bal instruction is so very hard to document growth.
    • Steve Van Gundy
      Steve Van Gundy on 23 Jan 11
       
      To be honest, I think I'm scared by "emerging technologies". In terms of what is already out there, and trying to think about what is yet to be invented, I'm worried that I will just start to "master" something when the replacement technology will take over. Though I have to believe that adequate training will be offered to us teachers who are apprehensive.
  • learning theory appropriate to online learning,
    • linda vann
      linda vann on 23 Jan 11
       
      I tagged a website which provides a brief definition of constructivism, behaviorism, and cognitivism. They are very brief definitions, but allow for a gateway of further research by identifying authors of the theories. I would be interested in learning if anyone has other resources for online learning theories.
  • 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)
  • Provides substantive, timely, and constructive feedback to students
  • • Selects and uses technologies appropriate to the content that enhance learning (SREB M.3, Varvel IV.D, ITS 3.e, ITS 4.f)
    • Kenny Weed
      Kenny Weed on 24 Jan 11
       
      I believe students learn better through the use of technology. Using technology to the content will help students stay involved with learning the content being taught.
    • Corrine Breitsprecker
      Corrine Breitsprecker on 24 Jan 11
       
      Although I agree, Kenny, I also believe that it is important that the technology does not overtake the content that is to be explored and learned. Sometimes it seems that the technology ends up being the focus and the content gets lost. To me, the words "enhance learning" are very important in this bullet statement.
    • Joe Brekke
      Joe Brekke on 07 Feb 11
       
      I agree with both of you. I've been reluctant to use technology because I haven't felt confident that I would be enhancing or extending the learning. Classes such as this are building my confience though, enabling me to see how much more I could be doing... I just need the time to explore and design. Isn't that always the case with this teaching gig?
  • Creates or selects multiple assessment instruments that are appropriate for online learning (SREB H.1, Varvel VI.C)
    • Kenny Weed
      Kenny Weed on 24 Jan 11
       
      Using multiple assessment instruments will give the teacher a better understanding for assessing each student. One assessment may be better for one student and not for another.
  • Demonstrates ability to enhance academic performance and support for the agency's student achievement goals
    • Corrine Breitsprecker
      Corrine Breitsprecker on 24 Jan 11
       
      The items listed here should not be limited to online teaching.
    • Corrine Breitsprecker
      Corrine Breitsprecker on 24 Jan 11
       
      Now that I have read the entire document, I believe my statement above could be repeated many times!
  • Aligns assessment with course objectives
    • Jeny Schoenhard
      Jeny Schoenhard on 24 Jan 11
       
      I am wondering if the assessments in these areas are also going to be online, or if it is okay to use these online tools to teach a topic and then use the assessments required within previously set curriculum, even if the assessment is not online.
  • Utilizes a course evaluation and student feedback data to improve the course
    • Jeny Schoenhard
      Jeny Schoenhard on 24 Jan 11
       
      I feel that this is important because with our continuously chaning style and strageties for teaching it is very important to listen to the learners in order to develop best practices for teaching and learning.
  • Has experienced online learning from the perspective of a student
    • Corrine Breitsprecker
      Corrine Breitsprecker on 24 Jan 11
       
      I think it would be very challenging to teach an online class without ever being a student in one. In fact, I think teaching online presents challenges even after being a student in multiple online courses! :)
    • Christopher Soldat
      Christopher Soldat on 03 Feb 11
       
      I remember the difference of looking at a online course first as a learner and then facilitating the course. I realized how much content there was to digest and how quickly the course was moving.
  • Communicates with students effectively and consistently
    • Alan Junck
      Alan Junck on 24 Jan 11
       
      Online office hours?  I suppose it just becomes a built in part of your schedule.
    • Christopher Soldat
      Christopher Soldat on 03 Feb 11
       
      That is the heart of the work for a facilitator of an online course. The student needs the sense first that there is an instructor presence somewhere in the background. As the group begins to respond to each others' thoughts then the facilitator can move from the foreground to more of the background.
  • Has knowledge of and informs student of their rights to privacy and the conditions under which their work may be shared with other
    • Alan Junck
      Alan Junck on 24 Jan 11
       
      This is one of many standards that many teachers will need considerable in-service to become familiar with.  I can see many teachers being unsure of this topic.
  • Provides and communicates evidence of learning and course data to students and colleagues
    • Gary Petersen
      Gary Petersen on 01 Feb 11
       
      In providing professional development to AEA staff on special education issues, I have often relied on "compliance to mandates" as a means to judge the success of the training. Of late, I have become much more interested in measuring staff's "learning" to a standard as one key measure of the effectiveness of training (i.e., teaching).
  • Demonstrates effective instructional strategies and techniques, appropriate for online education, that align with course objectives and assessment
    • Gary Petersen
      Gary Petersen on 01 Feb 11
       
      Providing appropriate strategies to enhance the learning experience online that align with the objectives and assessments within the context of professional development is a big challenge. I realize it is the same challenge that the Iowa Core and CEI puts forward for every teacher. I have been the recipient of many professional development opportunities over the last 30 years and many of them have not come close to meeting this standard. I think things are changing for the better lately and I really believe courses like this have helped.
  • Designs the structure of the course and the presentation of the content to best enhance student learning,
  • fair use
    • Chad Jilek
      Chad Jilek on 16 Jan 12
       
      Fair Use is a term that needs to be used more with students. They need to hear multiple times what they can and can't use on technology projects and how to cite them if they do. Not enough awareness of this.
  • Promotes learning through online collaboration
    • Chad Jilek
      Chad Jilek on 16 Jan 12
       
      Students need a new way to work within groups or pairs in todays age without being face to face. This is an important part of students technological advancement.
  • differences between teaching online and teaching face-to-face
  • between teaching online and teaching face-to-face
Marcia Jensen

Schools, technology, test scores, and the New York Times | Dangerously Irrelevant - 1 views

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  • Support ratios that are 3 to 10 times higher than in other sectors don’t result in meaningful, reliable technology usage.
    • Angie Hance
      Angie Hance on 13 Oct 11
       
      This seems to be true with all schools that I work with - a very small IT staff and, with perhaps 1 exception, the person is no a tech integration specialist - only working on the hardware and networking.
    • Marcia Jensen
      Marcia Jensen on 10 Jan 12
       
      I think the ratio of personnel to computer is a big problem at our school.
  • few teachers have been trained well to use digital technologies to improve learning outcomes
    • Angie Hance
      Angie Hance on 13 Oct 11
       
      Have seen this too. Districts purchasing smart boards and projectors, for example, and teachers not knowing the first thing about how to use them. They end up being used like older technologies! Get fired up about training!!!!
  • We still primarily see learning environments where teachers push out basic information to student recipients and then assess them on the kind of stuff that you can find on Google in 3 seconds
    • Angie Hance
      Angie Hance on 13 Oct 11
       
      how can we support teachers when there is so little time for training!
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  • Deep, rich technology integration training that has the potential to change educators’ pedagogy is rare.
  • In case we haven’t noticed, it’s a digital world out there (and will be even more so in the future). What’s the alternative to putting learning technologies in the hands of students? Is there one? Knowledge workers in the real world (i.e., outside of school) use computers to do their work. Can educators really claim to be relevant to life outside of schools while simultaneously ignoring the technological transformations that surround them, as if digital technologies were a fad that were going to go away?
  • Digital technologies and the Web WILL change education, teaching, and learning. Maybe not yet, at least not in the ways that we hope (and definitely not in the ways that we think). Maybe not until we get our collective act together and actually get serious about these technologies and start recognizing their learning potential and begin doing the things we should be doing to realize their affordances.
  • (“Learning also has come from the surprises I have found in the 1300-plus comments readers have posted. From those comments, I have received ideas I had not considered, sources sending me off to explore other topics, and counter-arguments I had overlooked.”).
Marcia Jensen

Rubric for Online Instruction - 1 views

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rubric onlinelearning resources

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  • Marcia Jensen on 20 Dec 11
     
    This site is designed to answer the question being asked: What does a high quality online course look like? It is ourhope that instructors and instructional designers will use this site to learn more about the Rubric for Online Instruction, and be able to view examples of exemplary courses that instructors have done in implementing the different components of the rubric.
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