Monday, June 10, 2013

Education Week Webinar: Digital Content in Your District: Overcoming Obstacles & Maximizing Benefits


 
 
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Digital Content in Your District: Overcoming Obstacles & Maximizing Benefits
Digital technology enables educators to create rich, interactive teaching materials, highly personalized assessments, and collaborative learning experiences that improve classroom instruction and foster greater student engagement. Yet as more teachers move learning materials online, they often find that limitations to their district's learning management system inhibit their ability to share content and tools with other educators, or to access relevant content that others have created.
How can educators, administrators, and technologists overcome this challenge and make better use of the collaborative benefits offered by digital technology?
Attend this webinar and learn how leading districts are using dynamic, global content-sharing networks to enhance teaching and learning in their schools and to maximize the opportunities offered by digital content. Gain deeper insight into:
  • The wide range of benefits of digital content, and how to align content to common core and individual state standards,
  • Strategies to improve content sharing, discovery, authoring, delivery, and copyright, and
  • A new cross-platform learning object repository that addresses digital content hurdles.
Guests:
Phill Miller, vice president, product strategy, Moodlerooms
Brent Mundy, product manager, Blackboard
Sarah Weston, curriculum director, Open High School of Utah
This webinar will be moderated by Brad Schleicher, marketing manager, Moodlerooms.
Register now for this free live webinar.
 

Webinar Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2 to 3 p.m. ET

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

TLT Group FridayLive: Silver Cloudians Transitioning to Teaching Online: the planning continues May 31st


FridayLive: Silver Cloudians Transitioning to Teaching Online: the planning continues May 31st
31 May 2013 2:00 PM EDT

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FridayLive
Silver Cloudians Transitioning to Teaching Online: "fish bowl" planning session
May 31, 2013 2:00pm Eastern Time
Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Margaret Driscoll, Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Micheal Dabney and others. 

Free to all.



TLT Sliver Cloudians will continue planning how best to support faculty transitioning to online teaching. The goal is to have something ready to offer by September.

 

Take a look at the following planning documents.


We will also look at the model being used for the Seven Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW


All of the TLT Group’s online offerings include use of “low threshold” tools, examination of controversial issues, options for participants with a range of experience, and suggestions for assessment as you integrate what you’ve learned into your repertoire. 


More information and online registration: FridayLive: Silver Cloudians Transitioning to Teaching Online: the planning continues May 31st

Hope you can join us!

Sally

The TLT Group, A Non-Profit Organization    301-270-8312
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TLT Group FridayLive: Teaching Online for Beginners: Designing a MOOCow for Very Smart Dummies. Help from/for? Silver Cloudians


FridayLive: Teaching Online for Beginners: Designing a MOOCow for Very Smart Dummies. Help from/for? Silver Cloudians
31 May 2013 2:00 PM EDT

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Teaching Online for Beginners: Designing a MOOCow for Very Smart Dummies. Help from/for? Silver Cloudians: "fish bowl" planning session.
May 31, 2013 2:00pm Eastern Time
Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Margaret Driscoll, Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Michael Dabney and others. 

Free to all.



TLT Sliver Cloudians will continue planning how best to support faculty transitioning to online teaching. The goal is to have something ready to offer by September.

 

Take a look at the following planning documents.


We will also look at the model being used for the Seven Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW


All of the TLT Group’s online offerings include use of “low threshold” tools, examination of controversial issues, options for participants with a range of experience, and suggestions for assessment as you integrate what you’ve learned into your repertoire. 


More information and online registration: FridayLive: Teaching Online for Beginners: Designing a MOOCow for Very Smart Dummies. Help from/for? Silver Cloudians

Hope to see you there!

Sally
The TLT Group, A Non-Profit Organization301-270-8312
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TLT-SWG - TGIF: 7FsMOOCow: DIY or Guided Sequence, You Decide


TLT-SWG



Posted: 28 May 2013 03:09 PM PDT
Read below for TGIF with links, or you can view TGIF on the Web...Click here
Twenty-first issue, Volume Six

TLT Group TGIF 5.28.2013 
            

   
From Group World Headquarters

Seven Futures of
    American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW It’s not too late to jump in.
 
Step one: Register
    Here
Step two: Start
    Here
Step three: Communicate with fellow schMOOC/MOOCOW’s here
 
This link will take you to a video introduction of the MOOC


Consider an
    institutional membership in TLT.
Institutional
    Subscription entitles everyone at your institution to TLT group activities, services, and resource materials.  And individual membership is free to all within your institution. You will find more information on our website. Sally Gilbert, Director of Administration, can answer any questions you may have sallygilbert@tltgroup.org
“7 Futures Amer.
    Educ...Screen-Captured World” MOOCow tlt.gs/7FsMOOCow Slides/links/chat
    transcript from May 17 #tltg7FsMOOCow TLT Group FridayLive!

7 Futures of American
    Education schMOOC/MOOCow

Putting Experience
    First - Join FridayLive May 24th

Review/summary Sener’s
    7 Futures Amer. Education: Improving.. Screen-Captured World. For MOOCow
    tlt.gs/7FsMOOCow
Silver Cloudians are
    busy designing learning opportunities for faculty transitioning to
    online teaching. The planning will continue on Friday and into July
    with a September launch in mind.


Send your ideas for
    the Designated Learner Social
    Media Application Series to
    Beth Dailey (dailey@tltgroup.org).
     The fall schedule is being developed.

FridayLive

   

   

Silver Cloudians Transitioning to Teaching
    Online: "fish bowl" planning session

May 31, 2013 2:00pm Eastern Time

Leaders:  Steve
    Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Margaret Driscoll,Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Micheal Dabney
    and others

Free to all.

 

TLT Sliver Cloudians will
    continue planning how best to support faculty transitioning to online
    teaching. The goal is to have something ready to offer by September.



Take a look at the following
    planning documents.

· Transitioning to Teaching Online: A Curriculum for an Online “Course” for....

· TLT Beginners
    Advice:
    Margaret Driscoll compiled this information from our last planning session.  

 
We
    will also look at the model being used for the Seven Futures of American
    Education schMOOC/MOOCOW

   
§ Google+ community

   
§ Google site

 
Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule:

June 7 Seven
    Futures 2nd session “The Seven Futures Approach to IEQ: A Dialogue”
June 14 Seven
    Futures 3rd session, “Modeling the IEQ Planning Process”  

   
June 21 Seven
    Futures 4th session, “Sharing Your Plans, Reflecting on Your
    Experience”


   
June 28 Review, Respond
    and Shape
 
MOOCs
    Round Three
 

Seven Futures of
    American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW
May 17 - June
    21, 2013
Register Here
Start Here
Communicate with
    fellow schMOOC/MOOCOW’s here
 


   

   

 

You can still
    join the

Seven Futures of
    American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW

The series will
    began wih a live session on May 17th.  The recording of this session
    is available on the Central Course
    Communication page

It will
     conclude on June 21, 2013 and consist of four live synchronous sessions and four
    modules.



This link will take you to a video introduction to the MOOC


The schMOOC/MOOCOW* (Massive Open Online Course Or Whatever) will explore John Sener's book "The
    Seven Futures of American Education: Improving Learning & Teaching in a
    Screen-Captured World."



The series will
    include these participation options ("paths"):

· guided sequence to enable
    participants to create an action plan for implementing one or more quality
    improvement strategies in their course, program, or institution.

· “do-it-yourself” (DIY)   approach which allows participants to learn what they
    wish by defining their own objectives and using available resources (both
    inside and outside the course) to attain them as desired.



Course Schedule:






     
      
      
       
       
      
      
       
       
      
      
       
       
      
      
       
       
      
      
       
       
      
      
       
       
      
      
       
       
      
      
       
       
      
     

       
Time Frame

       
       
Event/Topic

       

       
Friday, May 17, 2 - 3pm ET:

       
       
Live Session: Getting Started: Getting to Know You, Us,
        the Seven Futures. Watch a recording
        of the session.

       

       
May 17 - June 7:

       
       
Module 1: Identifying Your
        Challenge

       
                                  

       
Module 2: Defining Quality Improvement:
        the Seven Futures Framework & You

       

       
Friday, June 7, 2 - 3pm ET:

       
       
Live Session:
        The Seven Futures Approach to IEQ: A Dialogue

       

       
June 7 - 14:

       
       
Module 3: Selecting Your IEQ
        Strategy

       


       

       

       

       
Friday, June 14, 2 - 3pm ET:

       
       
Live Session:
        Modeling the IEQ Planning Process  

       

       
June 14 - 21:  

       
       
Module 4: Preparing Your IEQ Action Plan

       

       
Friday, June 21, 2 - 3pm ET

       
       
Live Session:
        Sharing Your Plans, Reflecting on Your Experience

       

     

     

                          

The series will also
    model several of the key strategies described in Seven Futures, including:

· learner-generated content (create an action plan and other content that you can use),

· event-anchored learning (participate in TLT Group's FridayLive! synchronous events to
    S‘anchor’ course activities), and

· impact assessment (opportunities to reflect on what you’re learning, mine
    insights, and assess their impact on you, your students, your
    colleagues...).



NOTE:  *a
    “schMOOC/MOOCOW” is our version of a MOOC (Massively Open Online Course):


   

schMOOC”  =
    “somewhat connectivist, hypothetically Massive Open Online Course” --

    “somewhat connectivist” because the course offers DIY and other
    connectivist options but also offers more structure than a typical cMOOC.
    “hypothetically” Massive because the course is open to all but not likely
    to be huge.
   #TLTGroup
 
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