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Another school year is starting! Where will you be a year from now?
The decision to return to graduate school for the UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Certificate isn’t made lightly. During hard economic times you can choose to stand pat or grow your teaching arts by seeking new ideas and opportunities. It’s not enough to simply be curious about teaching online. You have to act now to learn the skills to swim in this 21st Century sea of change. The bottom line is to develop real experience and skills that open the door to new jobs and opportunities.
- If you want to qualify for the best part time job a teacher can get; join our program.
- If you want to deeply understand how to integrate the latest web technologies into your classroom, join our program.
- If you want an edge in an uncertain job market, join our program.
- If you want flexibility, opportunity, and intellectual challenge join our program.
Despite the economic downturn, there are many jobs available for those with online teaching experience and solid curricular subject matter expertise. Our program will provide you with the skills and real online teaching experience needed to break into this booming field.
The market for experienced online teachers at the K-12 level is red hot. Also more community college and university opportunities are developing everyday. As part of the UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program you will receive hands on instruction along with current educational theory about distance learning. Job search advice and a steady stream of fresh job opportunities are being regularly updated on my blog at: http://doconnor.edublogs.org/category/e-learning-jobs/
If you want to work from home, love a challenge, enjoy technology, crave a change of pace and are seeking new horizons now is the time to become an online teacher. Join our program!
Questions? Concerns? Call or email, I’m always happy to share information.
Fall courses begin in late September and are open for registration NOW!
Dennis O’Connor, Program Advisor
E-Learning & Online Teaching
School of Education
Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University
530-318-1145 (Cell)
Skype: wiredinstructor2
Oconnord@uwstout.edu
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Tech Tip: Free Software Training Quick Reference Sheets
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Are you interested in advancing your career with new opportunities and want to…
• Teach online in a technical, community college, or higher education
• Work as a virtual school teacher in new K-12 environments
• Develop and deliver training for your district, business, government, health care,
or other nonprofit organizations
Becoming an Online Teacher
Bobby Hobgood provides an excellent overview on becoming an effective online instructor. He describes three critical phases of online course development: preparation, design and teaching.
Future of Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Kyong-Jee Kim and Curtis J. Bonk explore the results of a survey of postsecondary administrators and instructors regarding future trends in online teaching and learning. Includes predictions about the changing roles of online instructors, student expectations, and projected technology use in online teaching and learning over the next few years.
Originally created for the UW-Stout Infobytes Newsletter Karen Franker, Editor
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Posted by: wiredinstructor in 6-Traits Writing, UW-Stout, e-learning, writing, tags: 6-traits, conventions, ideas, online writing class, sentence fluency, voice, word choice, writing process
Please forward this announcement to teachers in your district.
This summer teachers from around the nation and the world will join online to exchange ideas and share best practices. The conversations are rich. The community is real. If you’ve never taken an online class before… this is the one to start with!
Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6 Traits
EDUC 744 920 Elementary (Gr. K-4) - 3 gr. cr. begins June 16, 2008 EDUC 744 909 Middle/High School (Gr. 5-12) - 3 gr. cr. begins June 16, 2008
Learn to teach and assess writing with the 6-Traits of writing (voice, ideas, word choice, organization, sentence fluency and conventions). Learn to use the 6-Traits with the writing process to teach revision strategies. Help learners meet higher standards and improve test
scores.
Earn graduate credits via online courses that support your professional development goals for licensure renewal, salary advancement and advanced certification.
Sign up soon to reserve your spot! Classes are TOTALLY ONLINE. You may participate from your home or school computer. Registration is limited to 20 participants per section.
Syllabus and other details: http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/traits.shtml REGISTER ONLINE or REGISTER BY FAX Fax: (715) 232-3385
For more details e-mail Dennis O’Connor: oconnord@uwstout.edu
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Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6 Traits: Classes are are Filling Fast!
WRITING COURSE:
EDUC 744 920F Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6-TraitsElementary (Gr. K-4) - 3 gr. cr. begins January 28, 2008.
EDUC 744 909F Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6-Traits - Middle/High School (Gr. 5-12) 3 gr. cr. begins January 28, 2008.
Learn to teach and assess writing with the 6-Traits of writing (voice, ideas, word choice, organization, sentence fluency and conventions). Learn to use the 6-Traits with the writing process to teach revision strategies. Help learners meet higher standards and improve test scores.
Please forward this announcement to teachers in your district.
Earn graduate credits via online courses that support your professional development goals for licensure renewal, salary advancement and advanced certification.
Sign up soon to reserve your spot! Registration closes this week!
to allow time for assigning user names, passwords and ordering/shipping the textbook.
Classes are TOTALLY ONLINE. You may participate from your home or school computer. Registration is limited to 20 participants per section.
Syllabus and other details:
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/traits.shtml
REGISTER ONLINE
or
REGISTER BY FAX
Fax: (715) 232-3385
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Next session: EDUC 762 September 10 - November 2, 2007*
EDUC 762 3 semester hours graduate credit
Instructor: Datta Kaur Khalsa (Faculty Bio)
Have you realized how powerful assessment is in the online learning environment? Assessment has the capability to drive interactions and engagement, as well as minimize plagiarism, strengthen higher-level learning and build eportfolios. Learn what is needed to
become an excellent online course designer while developing your electronic record keeping systems and methods for evaluating discussion postings and group projects. Become familiar with assessment tools that could make or break your online course.
Enroll now!
* I wanted to add a personal note to this course announcement. I’ve worked with Datta Kaur Khalsa for years. She is a spectacular online teacher with a warm and understanding online presence.
Some might think of online assessment as a dry topic. You’ll find Datta’s class anything but dry! This is a great course! Take the leap and join now.
You won’t be disappointed. ~ Dennis
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Reposted from the UW-Stout Infobytes Newsletter, edited by Karen Franker
Online Teaching: Interaction and Collaboration Activities
Special Issue on Online Collaboration
The February 2006 issue of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) contains eight articles which provide an excellent overview of effective methods for structuring online collaboration activities.
Relationships between Interactions and Learning in Online Environments (PDF)
Kathy Swan presents research findings on best practices in interactive learning and how they can guide effective course design and facilitation.
Online Learning Communities
Jan Engle and others describe how an effectively-designed online course can facilitate movement of a class through group development stages and deepen the learning experience. Key elements impacting student interaction include: the level of structure required, teamwork skills, discussion forums, and cooperative/collaborative learning exercises.
Understanding Interactions in Distance Education
Veronica Thurmond and Karen Wambach ask educators to consider if they are making optimum use of interaction and feedback, and describe four types of interactions commonly seen in online classes.
Earn a Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teaching!
For More Information about Classes Forming Now.
What Our Students Are Saying…
About the Online Classroom: Creating Collaborative Communities course:
“…the course design fostered a level of cohesive participant interaction that I have not experienced in many places. The instructors provided an effective model of online facilitation while teaching about online instruction. Every potential online instructor should take this class.” ~ Paul Mugan , High school biology teacher, Waverly, Iowa
Tech Tip – RSS Feeds in Internet Explorer 7
The new Internet Explorer 7 for Windows makes it easy to set up RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feeds for favorite Web sites so that you automatically receive personalized information updates. This can be a huge timesaver, as the updates are automatically sent to your Favorites Center, so you only have to look in one place. To set up an RSS feed:
1. First, check your favorite Websites to see if an RSS feed is available. To do this, open a Website and look for an orange and white striped icon in the toolbar (usually next to the Home icon), which means that RSS feed capability is available for this page. If there is no RSS feed for this page, the icon will be gray and white.
2. Next, click on the small black triangle next to this orange Feed icon to see which site items are available via RSS. Select an item from the list. A new window opens. In the new window, click on the Subscribe to This Feed text near the top of the screen.
3. To read your RSS feeds, go to the Favorites Center in Internet Explorer 7 (yellow star icon at left side of screen) and click on the Feeds button. A list of your selected feeds will appear. Select a site feed, and the content will open in a new window.
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This is a repost of work by Karen Franker, Editor Of UW-Stout’s Infobytes Newsletter
Using Peer Feedback to Enhance the Quality of Student Online Postings: An Exploratory Study
Writing for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Peggy A. Ertmer and others describe how peer feedback was used to promote higher-level thinking and higher-quality student postings in online classes.
Strategies for Providing Feedback
The Illinois Online Network staff provides fifteen effective feedback strategies to promote high-quality student participation in online classes.
Using Asynchronous Audio Feedback to Enhance Teaching Presence and Students’ Sense of Community
(Registration required — be sure to register for this wonderful free resource!)
Philip Ice and others in the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks report on the use of audio feedback to provide a more personalized communication with online students.
Effective Feedback
Paul Hammond lists the characteristics of useful feedback, and includes tips for providing effective feedback in a professional manner.
Tech Tip – Convert MS Word Documents to PDF Format
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a popular file format that is readable on Macs and PC’s. PDF’s are especially suited to documents with special formatting and graphics (such as classroom newsletters) which will be displayed on a Website. Converting to PDF format retains the formatting of the original document.
On OS X Macintosh computers there is a built-in PDF converter which is accessed by opening your document and choosing File – Print. In the Print window, click on the PDF button, and then pull down to select “Save as PDF…” which creates a PDF version of your file.
For Windows, there are two free options:
PrimoPDF or CutePDF Writer (both are free downloads).
When downloaded and installed on your computer, these applications can convert most documents into PDF format by going to File - Print, and ‘printing’ to the PrimoPDF or CutePDF printer which appears in the Print window. If you don’t wish to install PrimoPDF on your computer, you can use the new Primo Online converter which allows you to upload a document to the Primo site, convert it online, then download it as a PDF file.
What Our Students Are Saying…
About the E-Learning and Online Teaching Certificate Program:
Julie Fischer is a business and information technology instructor at Hayward and a candidate in UW-Stout’s online Master’s in Education program. She selected the E-Learning Certificate courses to learn more about teaching online and how to “create an environment where students could have flexible learning and to provide options for students who may be home-schooled or enrolled in charter schools and taking courses from our high school which would help them learn to meet state technology standards.”
Sign up soon for Fall Online Classes. Instruction begins October 2007.
For more information, contact Dennis O’Connor, program advisor at oconnord@uwstout.edu Phone: (530) 318-1145
Register online at: http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/register.shtml
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This post was originally created by Karen Franker, editor of UW-Stout’s Infobytes Newsletter
- Facilitating Effective Online Discussions
- Engaging Reluctant Students
Discussion Rubric for Online Class
Lynn Nielsen’s rubric provides an excellent, ready-to-use set of guidelines to assess the quality of online discussion participation.
Dialogue-Intensive Learning
Richard Dool describes how he manages some common student behavior problems, such as: the last-minute poster, the “I agree” person, the dominator, and the contrarian.
Lurking
UW-Stout online instructor Susan Manning and Dan Balzer, hosts of The Learning Times Green Room, have produced an excellent podcast about lurking. Should online instructors allow students to lurk on the edge of discussions? Are lurkers learning anything?
Top Tips for Moderators of Online Discussion Groups (pdf file)
William Spitzer and others describe the strategies used by effective online moderators, including: asking good questions, promoting reflective dialogue, and setting a motivational and positive tone.
Moderation, Response Rate, and Message Interactivity:Features of Online Communities and Their Effects on Intent to Participate
Kevin Wise and others explain the structural features of an online community which elicit the highest intent to participate, including: moderated discussions, response rate, message interactivity, and the length of time between posts.
Tech Tip – Manage Passwords Easily and Safely With RoboForm
Keeping track of all of the login passwords for every online account and making them secure can be a challenge. RoboForm keeps track of all your passwords, and generates new, hard-to-crack , encrypted passwords. All you have to remember is one master password, which gives you access to all of your stored passwords.
This free, award-winning software (for Windows only, including Vista) stores 30 passwords. To start using RoboForm, go to the RoboForm Web site and click on the Download button to download the software to your desktop and install it on your Web browser’s toolbar. For a visual, step-by-step guide on how to use RoboForm, click on the tutorials link on the home page.
For more information, contact Dennis O’Connor, program advisor at oconnord@uwstout.edu Phone: (530) 318-1145 (West Coast)
Register online at: http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/register.shtml
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Last Chance to register! Do it now!
EDUC 763
3 semester hours graduate credit
Instructor: Susan Manning
Evaluation, discussion, and application of instructional design theories and principles for e-learning. Examination of hybrid, self-paced and facilitated e-learning experiences delivered via learning management systems. Discussion of scenario based simulations and case study analysis, interactive multimedia learning objects, and instructional strategies to meet a variety of learner needs and content areas. Consideration of universal design for accessibility and usability.
NOTE: This is one of the courses for individuals pursuing the Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teaching and is also open as an individual course to students seeking professional development.
Because this class is asynchronous and open to you 24/7, you may participate from your home or work computer during hours that are best for your work and family schedule. Advanced computer or programming skills are not required. Learners need a basic understanding of Internet browsing, email, and word processing.
The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component. Instructor/peer comments will be available through discussion groups or sent by e-mail.
SIGN UP SOON!
Register online
Return to Catalog and Schedule
The demand for online education is growing as teachers discover that Web-based courses offer a convenient alternative when pursuing educational and career advancement goals.
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Friends, this course is getting rave reviews from former students. Susan Manning is an insightful responsive online teacher. This is a chance to learn from one of the best! ~ Dennis
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This course is taught by my friend and Colleague Datta Kaur Khalsa. You’ll find her to be an exceptionally insightful and skilled online teacher! Join her this summer for a great online class. ~ Dennis
Course Starts June 18. Registration closes June 12!
Have you realized how powerful assessment is in the online learning environment? Assessment has the capability to drive interactions and engagement, as well as minimize plagiarism, strengthen higher-level learning and build e-portfolios. Learn what is needed to become an excellent online course designer while developing your electronic record keeping systems and methods for evaluating discussion postings and group projects. Become familiar with assessment tools that could make or break your online course.
EDUC 762 - 3 gr. cr. begins June 18, 2007
EDUC 762 - 3 gr. cr. begins September 10, 2007
Description Registration
NOTE: This is one of the required courses for individuals pursuing the Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teaching and is also open as an individual course to students seeking professional development.
Dates of Next Sessions
Learning Outcomes
Resource Requirements
Course Outline
Alignment with Teaching Standards
Accreditation
Registration
Tuition
Because this class is asynchronous and open to you 24/7, you may participate from your home or work computer during hours that are best for your work and family schedule. Advanced computer or programming skills are not required. Learners need a basic understanding of Internet browsing, email, and word processing.
The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component. Instructor/peer comments will be available through discussion groups or sent by e-mail.
SIGN UP SOON!
Register online
Return to Catalog and Schedule
The demand for online education is growing as teachers discover that Web-based courses offer a convenient alternative when pursuing educational and career advancement goals.
Note:The School of Education reserves the right to cancel classes that do not meet minimum enrollment requirements.
For More Information…
Request for Information Form
Email: Dennis O’Connor
Program Advisor
E-Learning & Online Teaching
School of Education
Online Professional Development
University of Wisconsin-Stout
Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University
Telephone: (530) 318-1145
Home Page
Online Professional Development Catalog and Schedule
Newsletter
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This course provides you with real hands on experience. You’ll learn how to create a sense of online community as you facilitate discussions with your peers. This is an opportunity to practice online teaching skills in a caring, personalized and supportive environment.
Course activities include hands-on practice using asynchronous communication technologies. You will actively: facilitate, explore questioning skills, conflict resolution, netiquette, and collaborative learning through problem solving scenarios, simulations, and online discussions. You will investigate time management strategies and pitfalls to avoid when designing and facilitating online class activities and explore various assessment tools to analyze and evaluate student participation in online discussions.
Don’t miss this chance! Register Today!
EDUC 761 June 8 - August 3, 2007
EDUC 761 September 20 - November 16, 2007
3 graduate credits
Totally online - no travel to campus required
No extra fees or surcharges for out of state or international participants.
This course is part of the University of Wisconsin-Stout Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teaching.
Instructor: Dr. Kay Lehmann
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Stout
140E Voc Rehab Bldg
Menomonie, WI 54751
Phone: (509)-529-4006
E-Mail: lehmannk@uwstout.edu
Kay Lehmann of Walla Walla, Washington has a Master’s degree in Online Teaching and Learning from California State University/Hayward. Upon completion of her Master’s degree she began working full-time in the professional development of teachers, both online and face-to-face. Prior to that she taught middle school social studies/reading and was honored to win the Milken National Educator Award and the Washington Award for Excellence in Education. She recently completed her Ed.D at Walden University.
See what Kay’s former students have to say about this class!
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 Classes are E-Learning Classes are Filling Fast!
Please forward this announcement to teachers in your district.
Earn graduate credits via online courses that support your professional development goals for licensure renewal, salary advancement and advanced certification.
University of Wisconsin-Stout School of Education online courses begin in a few weeks.
Sign up soon to reserve your spot! Registration closes ten days before the class begins to allow time for assigning user names, passwords and ordering/shipping the textbook.
Classes are TOTALLY ONLINE. You may participate from your home or school computer. Registration is limited to 20 participants per section.
Graduate Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teaching Home Page.
E-LEARNING AND ONLINE TEACHING COURSES:
EDUC 760 E-learning for Educators
3 gr. cr. begins June 18, 2007
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/elearning.shtml
This course introduces educators to e-learning and online teaching. Learners explore online and blended methods of training using Moodle, an open source application, and D2L course management systems. Activities include hands-on experience with Web 2.0 tools such as blogs and wikis as well as tagging, surveys, quizzes, and discussion systems. The emphasis is on 21st Century Information Skills that you can use with your students and staff.
EDUC 761 Creating Collaborative Communities in E-learning
3 gr. cr. begins June 8, 2007
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/onlineclass.shtml
Vibrant online learning communities encourage motivated independent learners. This course demonstrates the dynamics of web-based, facilitated discussion. Course participants will actively: facilitate, explore questioning skills, conflict resolution, netiquette, and collaborative learning through problem solving scenarios, simulations, and online discussions. This course is for educators who want to become highly qualified in facilitating online learning in blended or fully online courses.
EDUC 762 Assessment in E-Learning
3 gr. cr. begins June 18, 2007
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/assessonlineclass.shtml
Have you realized how powerful assessment is in the online learning environment? Assessment has the capability to drive interactions and engagement, as well as minimize plagiarism, strengthen higher-level learning and build eportfolios. Learn what is needed to become an excellent online course designer while developing your electronic record keeping systems and methods for evaluating discussion postings and group projects. Become familiar with assessment tools that could make or break your online course.
EDUC 763 Instructional Design for E-Learning
3 gr. cr. begins June 5, 2007
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/instructonline.shtml
Evaluation, discussion, and application of instructional design theories and principles for e-learning. Examination of blended, self-paced and facilitated e-learning experiences delivered via learning management systems. Discussion of scenario based simulations and case study analysis, interactive multimedia learning objects, and instructional strategies to meet a variety of learner needs and content areas. Consideration of universal design for accessibility and usability.
REGISTER ONLINE at
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/register.shtml
Dennis O’Connor
- Program Advisor
- E-Learning & Online Teaching
- Department of Education
- Online Professional Development
- University of Wisconsin-Stout
- Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University
- oconnord@uwstout.edu
530-318-1145 or 760-471-5262
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DIGI[cation]
e-portfolio and class management system. Free sign-up for users (up to 1000 per school for free). Cost recovery comes when you sign on for administrative tools. Cost is on a size/sliding scale of from $5-20 a year per account. Looks slick. I was able to knock out the basic page in a few minutes. I may add this to the resources for E-Learning for Educators. The last class (what a great group) really went heavy for Google Page Creator
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