Learning, Teaching & Leading Today

"Joan T. Cook raised an interesting question at the Instructional Design and eLearning Professionals' Group"

"How would you go about converting a face to face course to an elearning format?"

Specifically:

- What are the criteria for determining if a face to face course actually is convertible to elearning?

- Assuming the course is convertible, what are the considerations when determining whether synchronous or asynchronous elearning is best?

Several professionals in the Learning industry want to convert their f2f courses into an eLearning format. However, several of them do the same mistake again and again. They believe that by simply moving their content such as PowerPoint presentations, videos, audios, and documents to a Learning Management System that they have converted their face to face courses to an eLearning format. In my opinion, they have convert their traditional courses to an electronic format.

In this post I will present you the TOP 5 tips to Convert your Traditional Course into an eLearning format."

"'The following is an excerpt from the August issue of the Edudemic Magazine for iPad. The full article lists off the top 50 apps (rather than just the 30 here). The app is free and issues are just a couple bucks. Cheaper than a cup of coffee but a lot more informative!'"

Are you looking for ideas for projects that are not papers, but that will help students "acquire subject matter, practice critical thinking and develop transferable information fluency and technology skills through a variety of creative activities"? If so, this post is for you! Joyce Valenza has begun a list of alternative to the paper which connect to the Common Core State Standard College and Career Readiness for Writing. You can add to this list by going to Google Doc (the link is in the post).
A wide variety of great ideas and there are additional ones added to the Google Doc, so do check it out.

A list of apps structured around specific classroom goals ...

Read on, and you'll be able to check out the very best sources for educational videos on the web.

A list of the top 101 websites for English & Language Arts (ELA) chosen by real teachers from prominent LinkedIn groups.

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Lot of interesting ways to use the iPad app Flipboard!

Have you wondered what is going on with social networks? This article and infographic show the "newest statistics" Ignite Social Media has been looking at social networks since 2008 and this updates their previous reports. Learn which social networks are doing well, which ones have the most educated users, the networks with the youngest and oldest users demographic and much more. To see the original reports check out http://bit.ly/2012-social-analysis.