Blended Online Learning

You pay $10 for the live WizIQ class, but get a 4-week course on how to start your own online teaching business: http://tinyurl.com/cq8wgm6

Spring is a great time to follow old and new dreams. Mine has always been to teach online. Teaching online is a great way to make extra money or earn a living by creating your very own online courses. Teaching online is full of AHA moments as teachers get to teach their way without having the school force them to teach to the test. Teaching online engages both the teacher and student. What better way to teach and learn via Moodle. Moodle is a free course and learning management system (CMS & LMS) that allows teachers to cater to students' individual needs. Learn how to Moodle by joining Moodle for Teachers workshops available now: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=19D9tue67AzIb2D-Yp4XFPU3BoKNT-tpydzE-n04lgHQ

Dear Members of IT4ALL,

2012 is going to be a great year for teaching and learning with technology. You are invited to learn how to enhance your class with technology by learning to teach and be the administrator of Moodle course and learning management system. There are many free and low cost workshops on google docs, blended learning, learning to install and use wordpress.org, how to create WebQuests, Writing Academic Papers, creating e-portfolios and how to integrate technology into your classes.

You are invited to join our small group (under 20) low cost 6-week workshops for Moodle for Teacher Administrators at the basic ($150) and advanced ($120) levels.The two workshops provide participants with two Moodle labs to practice as administrators of Moodle. One lab is for 1.9 and one for 2.2. Participants learn how to install and manage Moodle as administrators and facilitate their own online courses. Each participant receive individual attention throughout the workshop. For more information, please contact me and the course syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/198FgVeVX26bZatNBNJehHWc_inCV90w2u85TsnYroqk/edit?hl=en_US and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtfoGZgPKnMnVg2UDuSbszva2FrPOA4WQRAxy3KJtqA/edit?hl=en_US

Have a wonderful holiday season and a great 2012!!!

Warm wishes,

Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D

There are many resources available online on how to teach online and face-to-face. I would try and write down "my needs as an online and/or face-to-face learner". What worked for me? What didn't work for me? I believe we should listen to our learners. I would ask my students to tell me how I can serve them best as learners. Learning from other online teachers may serve those teachers and their students, but will it apply to mine? I would try to create a needs assessment survey before each online and/or face-to-face class to learn about the students. I would allow for flexibility and would not be afraid to change the course layout by adding or removing items that do not serve my students' learning needs. Don't be afraid to apply your ideas to teaching. Your ideas are just as good as the resources you read about online. So, use and share your teaching/learning ideas by publishing them online in a blog/wiki or right here on Scoopit.

Get 4 weeks workshop and ongoing support for your online teaching business for as long as you need when you join this class.

John Dewey tried to defend the Alexander technique as scientific and valuable to know. In an introduction to a book written by the founder of the technique, Dewey summarizes one of Alexander's premises that one cannot judge whether things will work or not if "one uses the very conditions that need re-education as one's standard of judgement" (see The Use of the Self by F. M. Alexander, 1932,1985). We need to change our strategies unless we want to to get the same results. So, read this with an open mind and try something different, now: http://www.wiziq.com/blog/make-money-online-now/

Organizational leaders in institutions of higher education expect instructors to implement blended learning courses without understanding instructor experiences with technology.

At least 36 schools nationwide are combining teacher-led lessons with computer-based lectures and exercises using a software program based on Salman Khan’s popular YouTube lessons.