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Would Like Feedback on eBook: New Rules for Teacher Training in 21st Century Schools

Started by Johnny Hamilton. Last reply by Anne Marie Niandou Nov 7, 2015. 2 Replies 1 Like

I just wrote an eBook and would like feedback from educators familiar with the benefits of e-learning. I wrote it for teachers and administrators who have instructional technology (like SMART boards) in their schools and are looking for more…Continue

Tags: digital, whiteboard, e-learning, smartboard, training

Wiki or Blog: Which is Better for the Classroom?

Started by David R. Wetzel. Last reply by Wendy Leung Jan 25, 2013. 8 Replies 0 Likes

Both wikis and blogs provide teachers with a a dynamic process for integrating Web 2.0 technology in their science and math classes. These two types of online tools offer students a more engaging process for learning.Both are relatively easy tools…Continue

Tags: learning, comparison, benefits, teaching, 20

Edmodo Training

Started by Scott. Last reply by Beth Kappus Oct 2, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Is there anyone who provides training to teachers in the use of Edmodo? I want to find someone who can do training on site in our district. We don't have any Ed Tech staff development trainers. Anyone do this or know of someone who does?Continue

E-LEARNING : MONEY FREE or MONEY MAKING?

Started by Moisces Tenyosa. Last reply by redAlumnos Nov 7, 2011. 1 Reply 1 Like

I'm n instructor who is interested on e-learning in the web. Recently, our school launch a program regarding e-learning for our students who were currently enrolled. My question is do they need to pay extra amount in their study? Me and my friend is…Continue

MATH PRACTICE AND LEARNING PROGRAM – FREE FOR TEACHERS

Started by Dan Sherman. Last reply by GoldStudent Jan 11, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Hi,TenMarks has launched a math practice and learning program for grades 3 - High School and as of today, it’s FREE for teachers to use in class or for their students to use at home. The TenMarks approach gives students a variety of problems on…Continue

Tags: Classroom, Math, Resources, Teachers, Education

Finding E-Learning and Distance Education Jobs

Started by Mac Slocum. Last reply by Vicky Phillips Aug 20, 2010. 19 Replies 0 Likes

I'm having a hard time finding e-learning/distance education opportunities. I've taken my fair share of these classes, but I can't seem to dig up any listings for adjunct positions. Is there a place where these types of jobs are posted, or is it…Continue

Tags: jobs, e-learning

Effective Learning Objectives

Started by Eric Federspiel Jul 22, 2010. 0 Replies 0 Likes

I just started as an eLearning Specialist for a medical malpractice insurance company, and I'm struggling with the writing of learning objectives. I'll try and explain.Basically, our overall goals are to educate our physicians on ways to avoid risk…Continue

Tags: elearning, objectives

e-Learning project to empower individuals in Africa!!

Started by George. Last reply by Sherrill Garth Jul 9, 2010. 3 Replies 0 Likes

Hi Everyone,Just signed up to forum today & I'm so excited to join the family.. I am working on an e-Learning project to empower workers and alleviate poverty in Africa by offering management & leadership education to individuals over the…Continue

keys to improving success of on-line students

Started by MJ Page. Last reply by Brigitte Williams Jun 18, 2010. 9 Replies 0 Likes

Hi I teach on line, and am pleased to be getting positive feedback from my students and enrollment is growing however, I want to know what others are doing to improve the success rate of on-line learners. Keeping students engaged and interested is…Continue

Tags: student, sucess, attendance, engagement, online

What are you planning to do with your E-Learning Knowledge?

Started by Dennis O'Connor. Last reply by Tim Musgrave May 6, 2010. 13 Replies 0 Likes

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Editor: Dennis O’Connor

I have enjoyed being your editor. Since this is my last edition of Tech Tips, I want to say how grateful I am to Joan Vandervelde for the 20 years of learning and teaching we have shared.

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All registered UW-Stout students get full access to LinkedIn Learning. Learn essential technologies. Earn completion certificates to document your skills.

LinkedIn Group UW-Stout Certificate Programs: E-Learning and Online Teaching + Instructional Design
Current and former UW-Stout students can join our group for job leads, tips, and networking.

Featured Resources - How to Create an Eportfolio

30+ Ideas for Portfolios - Samples
As always, Christy Tucker delivers what she promises "...use this list to jump-start your brainstorming". Key takeaways: Revise Existing Work, Use Short Samples, Focus on Your Intended Audience. Plus all the promised samples and more. It pays to listen to Christy.

How to Create an Instructional Design Portfolio that Makes You Shine
Helen Colman's step-by-step advice "is for novice IDs looking to create their online portfolio and seasoned IDs who still don't have a portfolio."

Here's What Needs to be in Your E-Learning Portfolio
Wondering why you need a portfolio? Tom Kuhlmann's classic post explains it all. Here are five things every instructional designer needs to showcase. Tom's advice never gets old.

Portfolio
This is the ultimate 'show what you know' portfolio. As you'll see, Devlin Peck knows a lot! Multiple examples of instructional design work from a polished professional.

Careers in Instructional Design

Breaking Into The Industry: Become An Instructional Designer And Master The LXD Fundamentals
If you are ready to take the first step in LXD (learning experience design), here's a head start from Christopher Pappas, a prominent voice in the industry.

Video: From Instructional Design to Learning Experience Design
Luke Kempski's three-minute video with instructional design practitioner Connie Malamed provides a quick shot of wisdom and perspective. Worth the time!

Video: How to Become an Instructional Designer in 2021
Devlin Peck delivers on this promise, "Do you want to become an instructional designer? In this video, I show you exactly what you need to learn and give some step-by-step tips for how to land an instructional design job."

Finding Instructional Design Job Opportunities

Tips:

Be prepared with fresh resumes and up-to-date portfolios
Create an account and set up alerts on at least two systems.
Apply immediately to jobs of interest
Carefully follow the directions on applications. Personalize every application. One size does not fit all.
Regularly update and refresh your job-seeking accounts.

USAJobs
USAJobs is the front door for jobs in the Federal Government. When applying for positions on USAJobs, use the exact wording from the job posting in your resume. Follow the directions and formats precisely as written. Applications are initially scanned by computers looking for keyword matches. Once you get past the computer, a human will review your resume and refer you to the appropriate decision-makers. The following codes will get you started.

1750 series Instructional Designers/Instructional Systems Designers
1700 series Federal Training and Education-related Positions

LinkedIn
Keep in mind that developing your career is more than just finding a job. The best work comes from the personal and professional networks you form. It is wise to create a social media-based network using LI. The job-seeking and application process is complex in general, and more so on LinkedIn.

Indeed
Considered by many to be the best job board, Indeed gathers job listings from many other job sites. Since employers can list jobs for free, Indeed will have jobs not found on other services. More jobs mean more opportunity, but you must find the needle in a vast haystack.

Indeed has extensive help sections, but sometimes a brief overview article is best.
How to Apply for a Job on Indeed.com

HigherEdJobs.com
This site was established in 1996 and is widely used by academic institutions to post instructional design jobs. They provide excellent advanced search features with Online/Remote and Location/Bound filters. Take the time to create the free job seeker account. Consider the paid resume and cv options.

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Congratulations, Michael Wildman
Instructional design certificate boosts recent graduate's career!

Less than half a year after supplementing his education with a certificate, Michael Wildman sees big dividends.

In May, he finished work on the instructional design certificate,
which consists of four classes. Not long after that, he was promoted to program designer at Olive Tree Arts Network, where he has worked since 2018.

Are You Using These Video Conferencing Tips?

Questions About Virtual Parent-Teacher Conferences? We've Got Answers
Sometimes it takes a teacher to help a teacher. Jill Staake provides field-tested advice from teachers who know how to structure a virtual parent conference.

You'll find great ideas on scheduling, orienting parents to the online setting, how to share student work, and how to manage the actual conference. Want more? For a grab-bag of templates and checklists, try Virtual-Parent Teacher Conferences on Pinterest.

Strategies to Encourage Students to Turn Their Cameras On
Are some of your students camera shy? When it comes to Cameras On, do you have a community or compliance approach? Liz Byron Loya's article unpacks the social and emotional benefits of how you go about camera use in your online classroom.

To build a safe learning environment, consider surveying students about their concerns, use visual voting, try a video meet and greet in the waiting room 5 minutes before class, play Zoom games, encouraging students to create their videos. The suggestions will help shy or reluctant learners to find their comfort zone.

Podcast: How to Engage Students in Zoom and Teach Effectively at a Distance
In this 12 minute podcast, Vicki Davis interviews Aaron Johnson, author of Online Teaching with Zoom.

Johnson shares research verified tips to engage your students. He suggests using 1-minute active learning tasks like polls as a quick way to chunk instruction and keep students focused. Vicki provides value-added tips and resources throughout the interview. This podcast is packed with good ideas, don't miss it.

Edutopia: Why Teaching Kindergarten Online Is So Very, Very Hard
It's a tough road for kindergarteners and their teachers, but great efforts are being made. Marva Hinton shares advice from great teachers, including keeping it simple and consistent, listening to parents' concerns, and checking in with daily emails to help parents be ready for the next day.

Here you'll also find suggestions for teaching the all-important social and emotional skills that make kindergarten so important. For some little kid fun, try 10 Zoom Meeting Activities for Distance Learning.

Zoom for Education: Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions
Even if you think you know it all (or are sure you don't), read this. You'll find something that sticks. Here you'll find answers to questions about best practices, security, taking attendance, breakout rooms, screen sharing, annotations, and mobile.

It starts with this question: Should I use Zoom Meetings or Zoom Video Webinars to host a class? Which fits you?

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Civic Online Reasoning

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"Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world."

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Instructional design certificate boosts a recent graduate’s career

Michael Wildman named an emerging leader

Less than half a year after supplementing his education with a certificate at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Michael Wildman is seeing big dividends.

In May he finished work on the instructional design certificate, which consists of four classes. Not long after that, he was promoted to program designer at Olive Tree Arts Network, where he has worked since 2018. More...

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Comment by Chantelle Manciel on September 30, 2009 at 7:44pm: Check out this new site for connecting classrooms. It incorporates recorded video chat, blogs and messaging as the main mediums for communication.
Speaking of English...Globally

Comment by Dennis O'Connor on August 13, 2009 at 11:55pm: Website Investigation 2010.

1000 7-12 graders at Northwestern's Center for Talent Development took this self-paced course this summer!

We got great results! Open for guest viewing.

http://tinyurl.com/21cif-web-eval

Produced by the 21st Century Information Fluency Project @ 21cif.com

Comment by Andrew Marcinek on April 29, 2009 at 2:54pm: http://iteach20.blogspot.com/

Comment by Cameron Brown on March 20, 2009 at 9:27pm: Hi everyone- I'm very excited to join this group and begin participating. I'm new to online teaching and the first person at my school testing the waters. I'm trying to get more teachers at my school on board and at least aware of how it works. I'd like to compile links to articles and multimedia resources (podcasts, videos, etc) that teachers can use to start learning about online teaching and learning. A digital repository of pd materials is what I'm envisioning here. In particular I'm looking for descriptions of best practices and discussions of applications and software that on-line teachers use (LMS's, pod/vodcasting apps, screensharing apps, etc). If anyone has any good links to resources or knows of any delicious networks that I should follow it would be very helpful. So far I've found the edutech website very useful and also the seedlings website is another good resource.

Thanks,
Cameron
Busan Foreign School
South Korea

Comment by Danielle on January 12, 2009 at 11:22am: Hi,
I work for a webstie called 43marks.com & it's a great tool for online teaching and learning.
It's a free customizable bookmark site that makes a great startpage for any class. We give you an unique URL (43MARKS.com/username) where you can upload bookmarks that are of interest to the class your teaching! You can have unlimited pages. One page for each class or project. It's a great resource to have all the relevant websites on one page. We are also advertising free, no banners, no pop ups.

43marks.com comes with some bookmarks - But after you create your 43marks.com page you can delete all the default bookmarks and just upload the bookmarks you want...

Comment by Mark Cruthers on December 29, 2008 at 10:24pm: Free Online Teaching through WiZiQ's Virtual Classroom

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Get your own Virtual Classroom

Comment by Cem Can on December 11, 2008 at 12:11pm: Dear colleagues,

We are working on a project on how we can utilize Web 2.0, not only Social networking, in foreign language teaching. Your contributions, suggestions, and ideas are highly appreciated. I will keep you informed about the progress. Please let me know if you are interested.

Kind regards.

Comment by Sabrina Fu on December 10, 2008 at 12:53am: Hi

Comment by Marcos H.L. Carvalho on October 7, 2008 at 11:23am: Hi look my page, and give a comment.

Bye.

Comment by Dennis O'Connor on June 13, 2008 at 2:56pm

Join Carl Heine and Dennis O'Connor in San Antonio for NECC 2008.

Monday June 30, 2008

Web Site Investigator: An Introduction to Information Forensics
[Session: Lecture]
Carl Heine, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy with Dennis O'Connor
Monday, 6/30/2008, 11:00am–12:00pm; HGCC 206 A

blog tags: necc, n08s402

Motivate students to evaluate Web sites with information forensics. Track down elusive authors, dates, check the accuracy of claims, and more using investigative search techniques. Recommended by ISTE's SIGMS

Tuesday July 1, 2008

Teaching NETS•S III: 21st-Century Information Fluency Project
[Poster: Traditional]
Carl Heine, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy with Dennis O'Connor
Tuesday, 7/1/2008, 1:00pm–3:00pm; HGCC Tower View Lobby, Table: 26

blog tags: necc, n08s781

Discover new resources for teaching information fluency to your staff and students. Recommended by ISTE's SIGMS, SIGCT

Look for new online classes coming from Information Fluency this summer!

4 Week Online Course: PowerSearching in a Web 2.0 World (Starts July 7)
1 Week Online Course: Website Investigator: Introduction to Information Forensics (Starts July 14)
You may view the course offerings in 'guest mode'. To register online, first create an account.
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