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  • K-12 Virtual School Resources

    Online Teacher Training / Building a K-12 Virtual School / K-12 Virtual Curriculum / K-12 Virtual School: Research & Resources

  • Nov 23, 11

    EDUC 760 E-Learning for Educators meets the Wisconsin Department of Instruction requirements for teaching online at the k-12 level.

    The syllabus includes alignment data required by Wisconsin DPI. This syllabus documents how Wisconsin teachers meet the state requirements.

    • This graduate course provides 45 hours of professional development designed to prepare educators for successful online teaching in an asynchronous or blended learning environment and meets the 30-hour Professional Development for Teaching Online Courses (Wisconsin State Statute 118.19(13).
  • Building A K-12 Virtual School

  • Nov 23, 11

    A curated magazine of articles and research about online teaching and learning.  This link leads to all articles in the magazine, tagged with K12.

  • Jan 16, 11

    Starting your own online program. Advice and resources from iNACOL.

    This is a significant resource!

    • his web site, you probably already know this. The information and resources provided here have been compiled and organized to help you feel less overwhelmed.
    • The majority of content on this site is intended for program administrators — the people that are either investigating the possibility of creating an online learning program or have already been assigned this task. The site also contains useful information for policy makers — state legislators, staff members at the state department of education, and district administrators who wish to establish a positive policy environment for online learning.

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    • Discover successful schools and strategies across the country -- and use their best teaching practices, training materials, and rubrics with your students.
    • Featured Strategy

         

      Location
      Idaho, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Florida

       

      Target Audience
      Grades 6-12

       

      Mission
      To deploy online learning to radically expand course options, personalize instruction, and reduce costs for schools.

  • Oct 14, 10

    Nevada, Massachusetts, Florida virtual schools are profiled in videos from George Lucas's Edutopia.

    • Model Online Learning Programs From Across the U.S.

       

      Virtual schools are transforming students' experiences nationwide, as spotlighted these standout examples from the Edutopia archives.

    • Teacher Development: Starter Kit for Teaching Online

       

      Expert advice on shifting from brick and mortar to bytes and bits.

    • Resources and Downloads

       

      Free tools, web links and other resources to help bring online learning to your school.

    • Downloads:

        

      These are handy documents used every day by practitioners in the field who have offered them up here for you to download and use yourself.

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  • K-12 Virtual Curriculum

  • Oct 13, 11

    A full set of high school core classes offered in Moodle format as open courseware.

    • The Open High School of Utah is a public charter school designed to meet the needs of the 21st century student. As an online school, we combine state of the art curriculum with strategic one-on-one instruction. Our methods can be described as “one-on-one tutoring for every student in every subject”. Instruction is individualized allowing students to work at their pace. Our delivery of education is structured to provide maximum flexibility that is student-centered; responsive to the needs of each learner, eliminating the negative aspects of a one size fits all system. Our technology sets us apart. It is data-driven, providing real time information that instantaneously tracks the student and their performance.
      Unique to OHSU is our commitment to share the curriculum we have developed as an open educational resource. All of these elements combined make the Open High School of Utah the future of education; we are the face of innovation.
    • Cutting-Edge Online Charter School Publicly Releases Award-Winning Curriculum Freely Available To Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
    • Cutting-Edge Online Charter School Publicly Releases Award-Winning Curriculum Freely Available to Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
       In keeping with its mission the Open High School of Utah, a public charter, is the first secondary school to share the curriculum they develop as an open educational resource. Today they announce the release of 20 semesters of creative commons licensed content, bringing the total number of semesters in their repository at www.ocw.openhighschool.org
  • Nov 24, 08

    K-12 Student Curriculum Free to educators, the CyberSmart! Student Curriculum empowers students to use the Internet safely, responsibly, and effectively.

    • Over the past year, Common Sense has updated and enriched many of the CyberSmart! lessons and incorporated them into our free K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum available at www.commonsense.org.
    • Free to educators, the CyberSmart! Student Curriculum empowers students  to use the Internet safely, responsibly, and effectively.
    • Nonsequential, the free CyberSmart! Student Curriculum is easily integrated,  in part or in full, into your current curriculum. Each lesson stands on its  own. A consistent lesson model, including free reproducible student activity  sheets, makes planning easy for thousands of educators worldwide.
    • we've worked to actively engage students in  exploring their social, legal, and ethical responsibilities as Internet users.  In our carefully developed lessons, students
    • The topic of cyberbullying—one of four topics in our Manners, Bullying,  and Ethics unit—is addressed in our new CyberSmart! Cyberbullying Package, distributed in proud partnership with NSBA's Technology
    • Joubert argues that virtual school allows students and teachers to work more closely together. “Students still talk with their teachers; you might even say they talk more. When I was in school, you didn’t have many one-on-one conversations with your teachers. Your teachers spoke to you, they didn’t speak with you. Here, they do oral exams, they talk with the kids, they really get to know each student.”
    • By having this type of learning, we are able to still have a family life. We have the ability to travel when we want to and choose our time. You can’t do that in traditional schools. Our kids have had the opportunity to go places and see things that other students don’t get to.

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    • CyberBee  has been providing rich Internet resources, lessons and  projects to educators for over 14 years. Lessons are  created around national standards and tested by teachers.  All content is free with proper attribution.Lessons can  be found under Curriculum Ideas. Be sure to explore the  entire Cyberbee site, including the Gallery of photographs  featuring the National Parks.
    • Protecting student safety has been the rationale behind the recent spate of laws restricting teachers’ and students’ communication via social networking. The laws call into into question once again the educational value of these sorts of online social tools: Why do teachers need to talk to students on Facebook? Shouldn’t students be studying? Isn’t Facebook just a waste of time?
    • “I think the definition of writing is shifting,” Boardman said. “I don’t think writing happens with just words anymore.”
    • In his classes, Boardman teaches students how to express their ideas and how to tell stories —and he encourages them to use video, music, recorded voices and whatever other media will best allow them to communicate effectively. He is part of a vanguard of educators, technologists, intellectuals and writers who are reimagining the very meaning of writing and reading.

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  • K-12 Virtual School: Research & Resources

  • Oct 13, 11

    The International Association for K-12 Online Learning presents research based standards for virtual school best practices. Download this pdf!

  • Oct 13, 11

    iNacol is a treasure trove of on point research about Virtual K-12. You don't need to be a member to access the research resources.

  • Oct 14, 10

    Online resources from INacol about k-12 virtual learning. Many webinar recordings, and other archival materials.

    • Research Roundup: Online Learning

       

      A quick reference on the science behind virtual schooling.

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      by Lisa Dawley

    • Online learning is a strategy aimed at closing achievement gaps, improving student achievement, increasing graduation rates, and expanding the availability of high-quality teachers to all students, regardless of distance and location.

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