Virtually Face to Face

Teaching online in real time

Background
While I was working on my MA I had the oportunity to take a couple of completely online courses. One being an incredible experience and the others being extremely poor. This got me to thinking about the difference between the two classes and what elements made one more effective [...]

The World is Open - Curtis J. Bonk session

I just listened to a great session by Dr. Curtis J. Bonk, Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University talking about the various ways learning is currently free and open using web 2.0 technologies.
Click Here to listen for yourself.
You can also check out a streaming online video of the session here. This video [...]

Online Education as Graduation Requirement

Here’s an interesting piece of news that I can accross. In a recent question/ answer session with teachers, Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty stated that he would like to make taking at least one online class a high school graduation requirement in order to teach necessary online skills and prepare students for online classes in [...]

Coolmath.com

Students and teachers are always looking for educational games that they can access in school computer labs. Coolmath.com is a great resource for online math materials including a collection of great arithmetic, logic, and spacial awareness games.
These games are not only fun to play, but are mentally stimulating as well. Personal favorites include [...]

Merit Pay and Teacher Assessment

I keep reading about more and more districts looking at using merit pay to reward the top teachers for the work that they are doing. This is exciting to some and scary to others. The main item of contention in my opinion is the way that teachers are assessed. Most districts that are [...]

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