TL-Dec-2012

=December 2012 Technology Liaisons Meeting=

=Virtual Classrooms to Compliment Your Face to Face Classroom=

===Educators and policymakers are trying to understand how online education programs could work, what an online course might look like and how students can learn best: in person in a traditional classroom, online with real-time teacher instruction, independent online learning without a teacher’s instruction via video or through a combination of educational styles.=== @http://qctimes.com/news/local/online-classrooms-more-teachers-ride-virtual-circuit/article_507f02a6-2921-11e1-875b-001871e3ce6c.html

===[|Why Online Classes are Better?]=== The modern age is the age of information technology and eLearning. The world has literally been placed on your finger tips. A click of a mouse can take you across the globe in a jiffy. The steep learning curve of knowledge never seemed so easy to scale in the past. Cyber technology and cyber learning are the new mantras to success. Traditional class rooms are rapidly giving way to ultra-modern online classes. Computer technology has opened up a new world of learning opportunities for one and all. You hardly have a reason today to stay away from the fountain of knowledge that has literally walked to your doorstep.

Read more: [|http://studentacademichelp.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-online-class-are-better.html#ixzz29NLCcZth]

Agenda:
Welcomes and Introductions Concerns and Solutions forum Vendor Presentations


 * =====Anu Jokinen from Renaissance Learning to share their 2Know! classroom response system=====
 * Dan Gottlieb from Schoology to share their product for managing online classrooms.

Building Your Online Classroom

 * Barriers to Successful Online education
 * Poor planning
 * Insufficient Coordination
 * Lack of student support
 * Insufficient technology support
 * Lack of connecting to standards (Common Core, ISTE)
 * Key Website Components
 * Welcome page
 * Syllabus
 * Calendar of due dates
 * Resources

http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/winter34/gerson34.html

Lunch

 * Now It's Your Turn To Create Your Course
 * Create an Assignment
 * Create Online Test/Quizzes
 * Add Files and Links
 * Create a Discussion
 * Add to the Your Albums
 * Add Pages to Your Classroom
 * Management
 * Grades
 * Attendance
 * Members
 * Groups
 * Evaluation