In late December 2011 I received an email about draft rules written by our Oklahoma State Department of Education which cover online courses for K-12 students. This document is available as a PDF from the Oklahoma SDE, and I’ve archived a copy too. Emergency rules regarding online courses for K-12 students in Oklahoma public schools
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To close out 2011 and start 2012 I’m starting a series of “lessons learned” blog posts. In this first one, I’ll share some of my takeaways using the extremely innovative BlueJeans.com videoconferencing service for professional development workshops. This month I offered a series of “videoconference PD” sessions I called “The 12 Days of Playing with
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On November 13, 2011, Ali Carr-Chellman (@aac3 on Twitter) shared an important and courageous message at TEDxPSU. Her 13.5 minute message was titled, “A Closer Look at Cyber Charter Schools.” Among other things, Ali challenges us to question the growing nexus between non-profit “cyber charter schools” and for-profit curriculum companies. As we continue hear different
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(cross-posted from the K-12 Online Conference blog) Please mark your calendars and adjust your schedules to join presenters, participants, and organizers of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference in an “AfterGlow” Closing Live Event on Monday, December 12th at 6:00pm PT / 7:00pm MT / 8:00pm CT / 9:00pm ET. If you’re located outside North American
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A recording of my 65 minute videoconference on December 1st, “Creating Multimedia eBooks,” is available as a 99¢ download. This is a high quality screencast published at 1024 x 768 pixel resolution, and is 1.5 GB in size. (A high speed Internet connection is required for download.) The workshop description was: Learn how to create
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The ‘regular week’ presentations of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference start tomorrow on Monday, November 28th, at 8 am EST! Please check our conference schedule the next two weeks for daily updates, Monday through Friday! 4 new presentations will be published daily, focusing on our theme, “Purposeful Play.” Professional development certificates for participation are available this
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(cross-posted from k12onlineconference.org) Please join organizers of the 2011 K-12 Online Conference on Classroom 2.0 Live this Saturday, November 12, 2011 for an invigorating conversation about this year’s conference! Local times in North America for this live webinar will be: 9:00am Pacific 10:00am Mountain 11:00am Central 12:00pm Eastern Use this time converter link to determine
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These are my notes from Janet Barresi‘s luncheon keynote presentation on November 9, 2011, at the fall Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) conference. Dr. Barresi is the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction. (AN ELECTED OFFICE IN OUR STATE, SHE TOOK OFFICE IN JANUARY 2011.) MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. HER PRESENTATION WAS SHARED WITH
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These are my notes from Sabine Lewis’ presentation, “How to Make Your High School Students Fail Online Courses” at the November 9, 2011 Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) fall conference. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I’ve been teaching German online through OSU for 17 years Most of the literature you see about online courses
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These are my notes from the NetPotential 2011 conference in Oklahoma City on October 21, 2011, sponsored by OneNet. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Opening comments from Glen Johnson, Chancellor of Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education: Initial funding for OneNet came from legislation in Oklahoma in 1992 5th significant increase in
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If you’re a school technology director or school administrator in Oklahoma, make plans now to attend NetPotential 2011: a FREE “innovations and solutions forum” sponsored by our state network, OneNet on October 21st and November 4th. Registration is free. The morning-only conference is described on the NetPotential website as: Join fellow administrators and IT directors
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Microsoft’s recent advertisement, “Airport – To the Cloud – Windows 7” closes with the tagline, “To Create and Share – Anywhere.” The activity in the 30 second spot, however, doesn’t have anything to do with CREATING digital content, it’s all about CONSUMING it via Slingbox-like functionality included in Windows7. The man and woman in the
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This podcast is a recording of Wesley Fryer’s 12 minute presentation on the panel, “Navigating the Road Ahead: A Guided Discussion of Ebooks in K-12 Libraries,” for the October 12, 2011 webinar “EBOOKS The New Normal: how libraries are leveraging the eBook opportunity.” This full-day webinar was sponsored by Library Journal and School Library Journal. Check
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As educators, we need to STOP locking up all our curriculum content behind logins and passwords. We need to stop following behind our institutions like compliant sheep when our leaders suggest things like, “You should put your entire course in BlackBoard / WebCT / Moodle / etc.” In today’s webinar for eTechOhio, I argued that
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You’re hereby invited to join in a free webinar on Tuesday, September 20th at 11 am Eastern / 10 am Central / 9 am Mountain / 8 am Pacific hosted by eTechOhio in Elluminate Live / Blackboard Collaborate. This is the direct link to join the session using your web browser. (The link will be
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These are my notes from Julie Lindsey‘s presentation, “Wikis For The Collaborative Classroom” at the Learning 2.011 Conference in Shanghai on September 9, 2011. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. When creating a free wiki on Wikispaces as an educator, remember to create it from the FREE WIKISPACES FOR EDUCATORS page. FlexFluid is
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I’m presenting a repeated workshop for teachers in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, Monday. I’ve titled the presentation, “The Roadmap to Blended Learning.” The session description is: What is blended learning and why should educators embrace it? How can we move towards a vision of blended learning in our schools? This session presents an OVERVIEW, WAYPOINTS, and
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These are my notes from Jason Neiffer’s presentation, “Online Learning with Montana Digital Academy” at at the 2011 Educational Technology Conference, “Building Human Connections in a Digital World.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. An audio podcast version of this preso is also available! www.neiffer.com blog: www.techsavvyteacher.com twitter: @montdigacad and @TechSavvyTech (shared with
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Please plan to join the FREE, interactive, virtual learning at the 2011 Texas Virtual Schools Network (TxVSN) Online Conference this week. Tomorrow on Wednesday, August 3rd, I’ll be presenting a session online in Elluminate Live at 7:30 EST / 6:30 pm CST / 5:30 MST / 4:30 PDT entitled, “Filtering the Information Flood: Strategies for
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As educators we should be advocates for “open web publishing.” Open web publishing is sharing content on the Internet’s World Wide Web which does NOT require a login or password to access. “Closed web publishing” is sharing digital content online which is password protected. There are good reasons to interactively share content on the closed
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