David McGeary, Harris County Dept. of Ed.
We learned about the research and best practices or preparing quality online instructors. This was interesting and relevant to me because I have helped with our Birdville e-learning program and I've taken an eight-week Moodle course where I created the outline of an online course to prepare teachers for teaching online.
Points Made:
- responsiveness to students is a signal as to whether the teacher will be a good online teacher
- teachers must learn how to teach online by first being online students in the same way
- two sets of values--student and teacher
- Kaiser Family Foundation--research on online learning
- Ireland and Australia are the most progressive in online learning
- Hispanics and African-Americans are the fastest growing group online
- females 11-14 are more active online than males
- "information validation" should be taught in online courses--how to evaluate info you get online
- good book: Global Achievement Gap
- cooliris.com--great presentation software
- go to trngexamples.wikispaces.com to see cooliris and many other cool things
- David McGeary is an outstanding presenter--very knowledgeable about many things and very interesting
I will post handouts and links when TCEA makes them available
Kathy Sales
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