The document introduces a teacher's lounge for online and blended learning educators to collaborate through blogging. It provides an overview of activities done so far, including establishing a wiki and weekly online meetings to become bloggers and comment on each other's blog entries. The purpose is to build a community, share experiences, and provide the educator voice in discussions about online and blended learning. Participants are encouraged to join and contact the organizers.
1. Teacher’s Lounge: Collaborative
Communication for Online and
Blended Learning Educators
• Jonathan Oglesby, Rob Darrow, Kristin Kipp, Mike Shumake
• Bekci Kelly, James Brauer, Joy Nehr
• VSS: October 2012, #vss12
www.inacol.org
3. Our Purpose
• To increase our knowledge about how to blog in a non-
threatening supportive environment
• To build a community of online educators who like to
blog
• To provide the online or blended
teacher/administrator/parent/student voice to the
ongoing state and national discussion about online and
blended learning (stories, experiences, etc.)
4. Overview: What we have done
• Series of activities to become a blogger
– Wiki: inacol.wikispaces.com
• Weekly online meetings, Wednesdays at 5
ET via Blackboard Collaborate
• Comment on each other’s blog entries
– Blog: inacol.wordpress.com
14. “Whip Around”
(Final
thoughts/comments by
everyone)
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