Professional Development for Online Teachers
University of
Colorado at Denver is offering an online teaching certificate
program designed for aspiring online teachers.
Contact
kevin.poole@ucdenver.edu for more information.
eNetColorado strives to
synchronize and share staff efforts to provide best practices and
educational technology resources to promote educational technology
best practices within the state. PBS TeacherLine is the premier professional
development resource offering standards-based, graduate-level online
courses for PreK-12 teachers. Trained, certified facilitators lead
more than 130 top-quality, six-week courses that span the entire
curriculum including early literacy skills, inquiry-based science
and supporting English language learners. Teachers earn graduate
credit or recertification hours while gaining strategies and
resources to bring directly to their classroom.
Boise State University
offers professional development in the area of online teaching
totally online. Options are available to earn credits toward
teacher license renewal, an online teaching certificate, or toward
the educational technology graduate program . For more
information contact
kerryrice@boisestate.edu.
Western State College of Colorado is offering the following Online Professional Development and Degree Options:
More information can be found at:
http://www.western.edu/education/onlineteacher
Cool Teach a collection of “cool”
tutorials about using online tools to enhance your instruction for
free. Workshops are also offered.
Thinkfinity sign up for a "train the trainer" webinar on
thinkfinity. Thinkfinity
is a web portal with thousands of teaching materials and resources
made available online.
RETA (Regional Educational Technology Assistance) Summer Webinar schedule.
Survey
Going Virtual! Professional Development Survey for Online Teachers from Boise State University, sponsored by iNACOL: a report will be generated for Online School Directors or Principals who have at least 10 teachers participate.
Resources for Online Teachers
Good news for our digital students and teachers! New
enhancements included in this five-year contract include:
Visit the ERIC website at:
http://eric.ed.gov
Check out this online visual resource
tool
The Visual
Dictionary Online (By Merriam Webster) is an interactive
dictionary with an innovative approach that definitely catches the
eye. The Visual Thesaurus
(VT) is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates
word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.
Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. The Visual Thesaurus is available in both the Desktop Edition and
Online Edition. (click
here to compare the two) Are you interested in Social Media:
Trends and Implications for Learning? Check out these five webinars from AACE. The seminar series, sponsored by AACE and led by George Siemens
and David Cormier, is free and will include live interactive
sessions, in addition to discussions with guest speakers and
participants. All sessions are co-sponsored by and will be archived
in the Education & Information
Technology Library (EdITLib). Free K-12
content available through iTunes U:
Many states, along with individual school districts,
museums, and other educational institutions--are now
sharing resources not only for K-12 educators in their
own states, but also for teachers around the world,
through iTunes U. The service's new K-12 initiative
creates a place where professional development,
curriculum resources, best practices, and samples of
student work are easily accessible from a single
location. eNetColorado strives to
sychronize and share staff efforts to provide best practices and
educational technolgy resources to promote educational technology
best practices within the state. The SREB (Southern Regional Education Board) Online Teachers Web
site
www.srebonlineteachers.org is now available. This website is specifically designed to support online teachers−especially
teachers of middle grades and high school online courses.
Several areas that you should be sure to visit include:
Cool Teach - website to discover
“cool” tutorials about using online tools to enhance
your instruction. Workshops are also offered.
Word Press - a collection of articles about using technology in
the classroom and more.
Online Teaching Strategies - a comprehensive website designed
specifically for online teachers!
TeacherStream- a
K12 online teacher network designed specifically for collaboration
amongst online teachers from around the country.
Thinkfinity a web portal with
thousands of free teaching and support materials and resources made
available online.
EDC to Share Open Source Math Curricula on Curriki Education Development Center (EDC), a
global nonprofit research organization, announces a
partnership with Curriki, an online community for
creating and sharing open source K-12 curricula. To
start, this collaboration will allow educators to use
EDC's online mathematics course, Building Algebraic
Thinking in the Middle Grades, on the Curriki site.
Designed by EDC and funded by the National Science
Foundation, the course is part of a research initiative
to explore the comparative benefits of online
professional development. Future plans include the
addition of more research-based programs from EDC in
mathematics, science and literacy to the Curriki site. To view the multimedia news release, visit
http://www.cblohm.com/news/Curriki/CU_080630/
The National Center for Technology Innovation
(NCTI)
advances
learning opportunities for all students by fostering
technology innovation. NCTI promotes collaboration among
researchers, developers, and innovators of the assistive
and learning technologies that reach into the lives of
children with disabilities to improve their chances for
academic success. ePals and
National Geographic Announce Strategic Partnership
National Geographic content is
available through ePals' Global Learning Community, enhancing
learning experiences for classrooms and students around the world. National
Women’s Hall of Fame This site provides information about
the historically distinguished women who have been
inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Visitors can search more than 200 members by last name
or browse a complete list of all inductees. Each entry
contains a brief biographical sketch and photograph. National
Museum of African American History and Culture The NMAAHC Museum on the Web is the
online experience of the new museum, which is slated for
completion in 2015. With the help of a $1 million
technology and expertise grant from IBM Corporation, the
Museum on the Web brings the stories of African American
history to a global audience. Conceived from the
beginning as a fully virtual precursor to the museum to
be built on the Mall, the site marks the first time a
major museum has opened its doors on the Web prior to
its physical existence. Encyclopedia
of Earth The Encyclopedia of Earth was created
as an alternative to Google for those seeking
high-quality information about the Earth. The
Encyclopedia contains free, fully searchable articles
written by scholars, professionals, educators and
experts who collaborate and review each other’s work.
The articles are written in non-technical language and
will be useful to students, educators, scholars,
professionals and the general public. This description
was taken from the Encyclopedia of Earth website. TRAILS TRAILS is a free product designed to
help media specialists and teachers identify areas of
student weakness in information seeking. The program
consists of a series of online multiple-choice
assessments of five broad skills: developing topics,
identifying potential resources, employing appropriate
search strategies, evaluating sources and information,
and using information responsibly, legally and
ethically. Smithsonian's
American History Explorer The Smithsonian's National Museum of American
History has developed a website that offers standards-based online
resources for teaching and learning American history. Be sure to
check out the "Museum Artifacts" tab, along with the
"Lessons/Activities" tab to access a list of lessons and activities
that can be filtered by Grade Level or Historical Eras/National
Standards. Under the "Interactives/Media" tab, find audio, video,
and interactive resources that are meant to be used by students on
their own, without the aid of a parent or teacher. FREE teaching resources from Federal agencies Free Federal Resources
for Educational Excellence. Basically, it's FREE teaching
resources from Federal agencies. The site has four primary areas,
Animations ,
Primary
Docs,
Photos,
and
Videos .. The Subject Map includes numerous educational topics including,
Arts &
Music,
Health &
Phys Ed,
Language Arts,
Math,
Science,
World
Studies,
U.S.
History Topics, and U.S. Time Periods. There are also numerous
sub-heading under each of these general headings. According to the site, "FREE makes it easier to find teaching and
learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500
federally supported teaching and learning resources are included
from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly." You can also get
new resources delivered to you several times a week or sign up
for the
FREE RSS. If you're looking to involve teachers in developing
teaching resources, see their lessons learned. FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the
U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources
being offered by contributing federal agencies.
Trusted Web Sites for History and Social Studies Websites for
Science: * Source: Education Week's Digital Directions Websites for Math:
The U.S. Department of Education will spend $29 million over the
next five years to enhance and operate the ERIC digital library of
education literature, which offers free access to a broad array of
scholarly materials. ERIC is the world's largest and most frequently
used digital library of education, containing more than 1.3 million
bibliographic records indexed from 1966 to the present.
Report from eSchool News
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
http://historymatters.gmu.edu
www.loc.gov
www.archives.gov/education
http://teachinghistory.org
www.gilderlehrman.org
http://nsdl.org/
www.nsta.org
www.teachersdomain.org
www.ScienceMystery.com
http://medmyst.rice.edu/
http://muve.gse.harvard.edu/rivercityproject/
http://tinyurl.com/ph55rk
http://www.smgww.org/
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html/
http://www.geogebra.org/
http://www.sagemath.org/