Day 9

Agenda:

Discussion of key points to consider in teaching effectively over ITV
Peer teaching over ITV: 2 minute lessons
Debriefing of teaching: what worked, didn't, and analysis of how this technology can be used.

Discussion of what distance education is: purposes, different options, how technology can be used.
Exploring some virtual schools:
1. State level virtual schools. Lists state level virtual schools and provides links to some k-12 online resources. E-Learners.com
2. Minnesota state online high school.
3. Virtual High Schools: The High Schools of the Future? by Glori Chaika, Education World © 1999 Education World. Describes what is being done in some virtual high schools with online learning
4. Summer School Goes to the Beach -Virtual classes give high school kids flexibility. By Anne McGrath. U.S. News 6/27/0
5. Virtual High Schools: articles and resources.
6. Distance learning and home schooling.
7. Preparing Teachers for the “Schools That Technology Built”: Evaluation of a Program to Train Teachers for Virtual Schooling. (Davis and Roblyer, 2005)
Exploring some of the options:
1. revisiting WebX: asynchronous and synchronous options
2. iChat and other video conferencing options
3. Breeze live
  1. Experience Breeze: simulation
How suited are you as a distance education student? What is needed to be successful to be a distance education student?
How suited are you for teaching using distance education? What is needed to be successful to be a distance education teacher?

Show and tell: what did you do, what did you learn from doing this, how might you use in future.