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Optimizing
Professional
eLearning
Opportunities
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When you see a slide like this one, it
means, “jump in” and share your ideas,
questions, comments (no tomatoes,
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How should we approach learning?
7. No more differentiated instruction....
What we really need to help occur
in classroom is differentiated
"learning".
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This accomplishes the student
ownership of the learning, allows for
a passion-driven approach, shifts
the responsibility for the learning to
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the learner (where it belongs) and
changes the teachers role....
Source: Tom Welch as cited at The Innovative
Educator blog - http://goo.gl/KkAYq
Learning – a social endeavor or an
independent activity...or both?
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Are we absolving teachers
from being lifelong learners
when we put the
responsibility on student
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How does learning work for you?
10. Ipad Apps
Using Blooms
Taxonomy in
education is a highly
effective way to
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scaffold learning for
the students.
With the recent
popularity and
pervasive nature of
iOS devices in school
districts it is essential
for educators to
understand how to
implement Blooms in
the classroom using
the apps that are
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Is the reason why Moodle
and iPad apps are popular
is because we have some
semblance of control?
12. ...teachers confide that they can't
possibly create 32 different lessons
for each of their students...When we
give up control and empower the
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students to learn the way they want
with the tools they want, the results
are terrific and the students are
partners with their teacher in
designing learning methods, tools,
and environments that are best for
them.
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Source: The Innovative Educator blog - http://
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Learning – a social endeavor or an
independent activity...or both?
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Is the plethora of tools...overwhelming?
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Share in the chat how many of the tools
above YOU know how to use.
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How many tools are blocked in schools?
16. Is Moodle a
“trojan horse”
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that we can use
to introduce K-12
and adult
learners to new
technologies in a
“safe, controlled
learning
environment?”
Source: Adapted from http://www.slideshare.net/mrollins/moodle-and-blooms-taxonomy
17. If the focus should be on differentiated
learning—rather than instruction--why use a
course management system like Moodle?
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Pros Cons
19. "This introductory course has greatly influenced how I feel
about online learning. Although I was very nervous at first it
has clearly given me the self confindence to take on a course
of this nature.
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In addition this course has given me the opportunity to
reflect on my own experiences and evaluate those skills I
already had.
I encourage anyone who is skeptical about an online course
to embrace it with open arms and reap the benefits it has to
offer."
--Adult Learner in San Antonio ISD
20. "I know that I am an
independent learner, but
I also know that I am
one to respond
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positively through
active conversation with
others. I felt that the
only way to do that was
Watch video of adult in a traditional
online learners at http:// classroom; now I
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understand that I can
have that active
conversation through
others' comments and
postings."
21. What is the
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purpose of
professional
learning in your
district?
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22. Often, professional
development in schools
is ONE WAY.
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The purpose isn't to help
people learn, it's to push
a certain agenda or
instructional program...a
way of standardizing
teaching and learning,
making it idiot-proof.
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23. "Is the checklist we
operate from, our
scope and sequence
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of traditional; skills
and lessons, enough
for our students to
invent, create,
collaborate, and solve
their own problems?"
--Angela Maiers, Classroom Habitudes
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What is on your checklist
for professional learning?
25. Wondering
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where
to
START?
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26. Stage 1 - Develop Your Program
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27. Stage 1 - Develop Your Program
What do you need to begin?
1. Online Course Template
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2. Process for getting an Online Course
3. Training Courses
o Online Professional Development in Moodle
(Face-to-Face Course)
o Digital Workshops Effective Practices
(Self-Paced Online Course)
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Designing Online Courses is Time-Consuming!
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Managing Moodle
Instances is easy by
comparison....
40. Plan Your Moodle Sites
Open
Campus
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Professional
Learning
Center
Technology
Center Decide which Moodles
will be open to email
authentication, require
Active Directory,
SAISD
themes, modules,
Departments
blocks, etc.
in advance.
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How do you manage multiple Moodle instances?
42. How to
facilitate
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online
learning?
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Stage 2 - Collaborate
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Tech Dept Curriculum Leadership
Let's get a
private cloud
going!
45. Stage 2 - Collaborate
Collaborate with Key People:
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Who's the main contact? the go-to person?
What kind of courses are going to be created?
Who's going to be trained on them?
Who's going to create them?
Who's going to be administering them?
46. Stage 3 - Putting the Pieces Together
• Online Professional
Development
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Training
• Online Course
Checklist
• Syllabus
Development
• Storyboarding
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47. Online Professional Development
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Text
Text
This course will
be available
July 1, 2011.
57. The Future?
Online Courses
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Professional Learning
Communities
Blended Courses
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Point #1 - “We don’t create in a vacuum.”
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Point #2 - Begin with the end in mind
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Point #3 - Seize your Virtual Space!
61. Point #3 - Seize your Virtual Space!
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62. Point #3 - Seize your Virtual Space!
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63. Point #3 - Seize your Virtual Space!
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64. Point #3 - Seize your Virtual Space!
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65. Point #4 - Design an Engaging Inner Space!
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66. Point #4 - Design an Engaging Inner Space!
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Voicethread link
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67. Point #5 - Make Your Space Interactive!
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68. Point #5 - Make Your Space Interactive!
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This activity continues...with a GoogleMap.
69. Point #5 - Make Your Space Interactive!
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70. Point #6 - Add multimedia!
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“You can’t hear President Roosevelt in your textbook.”
- Pam Cranford - Twitter: txgal8437
71. Point #7 - Pull in Content via RSS
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72. Point #8 - Share content via RSS
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73. Point #9 - Give careful thought to course planning.
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74. Point #9 - Give careful thought to course planning,
existing Moodle modules....
Learning Moodle
Activities Activities
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Reading.................................Web page, Glossary, Wiki
Book
Sharing Ideas........................Discussion Forums, Blog,
Wiki, Lesson
Collaboration.........................Wikis, Forums (groups)
Presenting.............................Assignment (upload preso)
Getting Feedback..................Journal, Questionnaire
Assessment...........................Quiz, all graded assignments
Adapted from An Interview with Diana Benner (http://diben.pbworks.com)
75. Point #9 - . . .and openweb activities to embed.
Embed podcasts or allow
students to upload them as
assignments or as part of
discussion forum postings.
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Aviary.com/tools
Audio editor
Moodle
Activities
Adapted from An Interview with Diana Benner (http://diben.pbworks.com)
77. #1 - Questionnaire
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78. #2 - Book
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Powerful use of the Book Module to
provide a news archive.
http://vle.olchs.lancs.sch.uk/mod/book/
view.php?id=111366&chapterid=4020
82. Other Recommended Modules
from Moodle Mayhem eGroup Participants
1.Attendance
2.Course Menu
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3.DragMath Equation Editor
4.Flash
5.Podcaster
6.QuickMail for Large Classes
7.SideBar
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Special thanks to:
Joel Parker
Davo Smith
Ben Wilkoff - http://learningischange.com
A.T. Wyatt, McMurry University