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Georgia
CommitteeRyan Fuller, Cobb County School District
Amy Waters, Gwinnett County School DistrictCo-Chairs, GA iNACOL Committee
Agenda: 12-9-11
• Welcome• iNacol Updates, Rob Darrow• Today’s Topic: Virtual School Symposium (VSS)• Topic Suggestions, Upcoming Events?• Future Meeting Dates• Wrap-Up• Questions/Comments
iNacol Updates from Rob Darrow,
Committee Conduit
Report from iNacol• Follow Up from VSS– Evaluation: Please complete the evaluation
emailed to you.– Video Presentations to rebroadcast:
http://www.kzosites.com/inacol/ – VSS Overlay/Wiki to view comments/Ppts:
http://vss11.wikispaces.com/ – Twitter Feed:
https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23vss11
• VSS 2012: October 21-24, 2012 in New Orleans.
Report from iNacol• Recent Fordham Reports – Online
Learning– http://www.edexcellence.net/publications-issue
s/publications/creating-sound-policy-for-digital-learning.html
• Other recent reports.– Sloan-C – (college online learning) -
http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/survey/going_distance_2011
– Keeping Pace (K-12 online learning) – http://kpk12.com/reports/
Report from iNacol• iNacol Webinars - – Ongoing Webinars – Informational and then
Teacher Talk – Next one: Dec 14: Keeping Pace with K-12 Online LearningOngoing: http://www.inacol.org/events/
• Gates Foundation Next Generation Learning Challenge Wave 3 Grant: http://www.nextgenlearning.org
• And, just for fun on Twitter, search the hashtag #pencilchat - http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23pencilchat
Today’s Topic - VSS….Time to Share!
- Conference sessions attended?- Exceptional speakers?- Nuggets of wisdom?- Resources you can share?
Pre-Conference Session• bit.ly/inacol-gwe• Google Voice, image search, custom search engine,
calculator & dictionary through search box, Alerts, Scholar, Search Story, Docs, Maps, Earth, googlelittrips, Sketch Up, Sky, Moon, Mars, Ocean, Talk, Apps Marketplace (mail chimp, tungle.me, manymoon, grockit, easybib.com, learnboost.com, aviary, etc.), Moderator, google.com/educators (for OER), Cloud Connect, Body, Google+, ePortfolio…
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1svktCoEiPqvGkBCzD-kw-3dSxGIqwD1pUf6CDxBX-xk/edit
OER for Moodle Users
Presenters: Intermediate District 287
MoodleShare: http://courses.moodleshare.com, www.facebook.com/moodleshare
Open Source Discussion Platform: http://www.phpbb.com/
Free Mobile Learning Apps, Nancy Howell• Survey Tools
– Survey Monkey- http://www.surveymonkey.com– Poll Everywhere- http://www.polleverywhere.com
• Podcasting Tools
– Aviary.com -graphics creating and editing, music, etc. http://www.aviary.com– Audacity.com- online podcasting tool http://audacity.sourceforge.net– Vodcasting– Mac only – http://apple.com/life/garageband– Windows only - http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker
• Blogs
– Posterous – http://posterous.com • Meeting Site
– Join Me - share with everyone http://www.joinme.com • Mobile Study
– Create mobile study content– Mobile Study – http://mobilestudy.org
It’s Time to Share!
- Conference sessions attended?- Exceptional speakers?- Nuggets of wisdom?- Resources you can share?
Planning Ahead….
Topic suggestions?
1. Mobile Learning Apps (N. Howell) (offered)2. Tools of Delivery for Personalized Instruction (requested)3. Project Based Learning, http://www.bie.org/about/profile/andrew_miller4. Best Practices for Online Teachers: differentiation, time management,
academic integrity, assessing, discussion boards, hybrid courses, at risk students. Presenters are available for webinars. Contact Matlea Parker, SREB
5. Project Based Learning: Andrew Miller (What does the online classroom look like and how should it be different from the traditional classroom? Most still look like traditional classroom. http://www.bie.org/about/profile/andrew_miller
6. How to address IEPs with online learning, differentiated instruction (requested)
Current/Upcoming Events
• http://k12onlineconference.org/ (current)
• "MOOC" - http://change.mooc.ca/ (ongoing)
• SREB: Upcoming event: SREB's Teaching and Learning Symposium - March 1-2, 2012 at Atlanta Airport Marriott Gateway! Registration opens next week. (upcoming)
Future Meeting Dates
• These are all the second Friday of each month via Elluminate/Collaborate beginning at 9:30 AM
September 9th
October 14th
November 11th ? VSS!December 9th January 13th
February 10th March 9th April 13th
May 11th
Session Recordings
All session recordings will be posted in the iNacol Georgia Committee Forums
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