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Defining Online Learning to Your Peers and Community
Are you an educational technologist? An instructor? An administrator? You know what online learning is. But they don't quite get it. The number of terms and taxonomies that people use to explain online learning concepts can cause confusion in experienced audiences, much less those who don't yet understand the value in your online learning plans. Use this piece in part or in its entirety as a timesaver when you have to explain online learning to a new or inexperienced audience. This free piece is written as a letter and sketches to a professor who is genuinely curious about what online learning can do. This free piece gives you a simple approach and examples to break down and exemplify different perspectives on what online learning is or could be. It can help you explain to others exactly where your plans fit in the broad continuum.
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Profiles of 42 vendors from the World Congress on Disabilities
6by7 Reports covers 42 vendors of technology and services for a wide variety of people with disabilities. A web-only version of this presentation (indexed and with some photos) can be found here
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Author Nancy Henderson Wurst talks about her new book, Able!
NY Times, Parade, Women's Day writer talks about her new book Able! How One Company's Disabled Workforce Became the Key to Extraordinary Success (2005, BenBella Books). People with disabilities help make a company successful and profitable.
Dr. Larry Elchuck talks about using open source (and other things) in virtual classes
Dr. Larry Elchuck and his wife Lesley Higgins-Elchuck discuss using open source in a rural Canadian school board, offering fine arts and calculus to high school students remotely, how funding and support came about, and about an "office hours" model for remote teacher interaction.
The Keystone 2005 Conference about K-12 Interactive Videoconferencing
Interviews of attendees of the 2005 Keystone Conference from Oct 4-5, 2005 from Indianapolis Indiana. Dozens of remote sites around the world present and participate in discussions about using interactive, real-time communication technologies at the K-12 level.
A short interview with the Cleveland Museum of Art
Can an internationally renowned art museum reach out to students and faculty using videoconferencing? Can fine arts and technology mix well? Can standards based units be developed by a museum and delivered to students worldwide? In more than one language? Ms. Dale Hilton of the Cleveland Museum of Art talks with 6by7 Reports.
Can interactive whiteboards help student achievement?
6by7 Reports chats with Jaemes Shanley VP of Sales and Marketing of mimio in Boston. Can the interactive whiteboard actually increase standard testing scores in students?
A short interview with the Potter's School
Can 1200 students in more than 19 time zones work together with instructors in real-time? Is there really an online school where instructors left their previous full-time "real world" teaching gigs to make a better salary teaching out of their home offices? Can this methodology help create nation merit scholars? This is an MP3 audio file. A full report about this organization will be available in the near future.
A short interview with the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC)
You've got some cool technology. But you didn't really plan on content. Where do you go for content? How do you get proven professional development for real-time online instruction? Is content for videoconferencing classes out there? Is it standards based? Who can help you? What one organization has in store for you to help you access standards-based real-time content for interactive videoconferencing based content. This is an MP3 audio file. A full report about this organization will be available in the near future.
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