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This week I was again given the pleasure of working from home. Personally, this is the aspect of eLearning that I like the most. For colleges that are looking to be competitive with non-traditional students, the use of virtual classrooms to simulate a real class experience seems to be a must. Traditional online courses do not seem to provide the same amount of depth that can be gained through live interactions with classmates.
For the second half of the class we worked on fleshing out our pre-storyboard templates for our lesson on the Iditarod. Read the rest of this entry »
For those of you who were not in attendance, Amy, Scott S., and I presented on the use of virtual classrooms at the My Classroom to Yours conference. This entire conference was provided by the ETTC/SRI and brought together various teachers, from throughout the region, in order to share successful teaching practices. Through our presentation, we were able to show various uses of virtual classrooms in today’s education environment as well as present various free options. Read the rest of this entry »
Tomorrow marks our second class…and possibly the last one I attend on campus for awhile with the use of Wimba. I just purchased a Logitech ClearChat Pro USB and look forward to learning how we will use it next week.
Class helped me to realize that this semester will be only as difficult as we choose to make it for ourselves and aside from what we do in class already, it should not totally kill us.
I just posted my profile online and those of you who read through it will find out that I teach 7th Grade in Port Norris School in the Commercial Township School district. We are a very small distict in Cumberland County. After school I teach two technology based clubs each marking period which for the first half of school will be a Videogame Club and my Broadcasting Team for the morning news. On a few weekends a month I work at GameStop as a Game Advisor…which really means that I check people out and give whatever purchasing advice that I can.
This past Thursday and Friday I had a taste of Adult Learning from the teacher’s perspective as I taught workshops on the use of SmartBoards and lesson creation for the technology and another workshop on how to use our new online grading system, PowerSchool. Taking a cue from professors in the MAIT major, I feel that the lessons were successful, but it does always amaze me how different it is to teach fellow colleagues. It is so much easier to teach the students who I generally feel know less than I do…at least most of the time.
Can’t wait to learn more about what I did wrong teaching the workshop 
Feel free to ask me anything you need to about writing a blog tomorrow.
