Jeanie Cole, Harris County Dept. of Ed.
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
