23 Things for the Online Teacher to Learn, Do, or Decide
- Online teachers should develop a philosophy of education – how much of their education will be the giving of information to the student and how much of their education will be students learning on their own.
- Online teachers need to establish and use a blog or other similar program to keep track of their technology experiences.
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/08/29/learning-about-blogging-and-how-to-blog/ - Online teachers should examine Google tools to determine what would be useful in their classes.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/ - Online teachers should learn to tag websites, using something like diigo.
http://www.diigo.com/ - Online teachers should develop a network of teachers and others with similar interests and/or teaching positions to share their blog with, developing new concepts and technologies, but also maintaining an element of accountability to continue learning.
http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers - Online teachers should collect third-party material for use in the classroom; this could be kept on a separate blog or wiki and shared with others in the teacher’s network.
http://www.4teachers.org/
http://epnweb.org/ - Online teachers should establish an educational Twitter account to share with their network and others.
http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/ - Online teachers need to take at least one online class to experience a class from the student’s perspective.
http://www.ion.illinois.edu/courses/ - Online teachers need to establish a blog for their classes to share with students.
http://edublogs.org/10-ways-to-use-your-edublog-to-teach/ - Online teachers should be able to create a Powerpoint presentation.
http://actden.com/pp/ - Online teachers need to experiment with Prezi.
http://prezi.com/learn/ - Online teachers need to learn to create creative videos.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc024 - Online teachers should become acquainted with eBooks.
http://www.ebooksforteachers.com/ - Online teachers should become familiar with a Learning Management System.
http://www.leftbrainmedia.com/2.1_lms_systems.html - Online teachers need to take at least one MOOC to comprehend what it is.
http://change.mooc.ca/ - Online teachers need to learn to use Jing or a similar program.
http://www.techsmith.com/learn/jing/ - Online teachers need to do podcasts for their classes.
http://learninginhand.com/podcasting/ - Online teachers should become familiar with Skype or similar programs.
http://education.skype.com/ - Online teachers should be able to create online quizzes and tests.
http://www.proprofs.com/ - Online teachers should be able to create online surveys to use in their classes.
http://www.zoomerang.com/online-surveys/ - Online teachers should conduct live chats with their students, using Elluminate or something similar.
http://www.elluminate.com/Services/Training/Elluminate_Live!/?id=418 - Learn about RSS and establish an RSS account to gather useful and helpful digital information.
www.google.com/reader - Online teachers should experiment with an image generator.
http://www.imagegenerator.org/
