The secret to VLACS’ success may be that it does things differently from most virtual schools. It puts a focus on building strong student-teacher relationships. It breaks up traditional courses into specific skills and abilities, called “competencies,” that students master through a personalized blend of traditional lesson plans, offline projects and real-world experiences.
An interesting approach to the limitations of relationships with online coursework. It seems to be working for them, but I’ll need to do more research.
To get a deeper understanding of text, students use close reading strategies to interact with the text using multiple methods. In an analog format, students use highlighters, sticky notes, columns, and writing to question and emphasize important points and questions. In a digital format, OneNote can be an easy digital alternative for teachers to use…
Synergyse is a company that offers Google Apps training for the various Google Apps products. This training is delivered in the form of videos or in browser tutorials. While this has been a paid product, Google has purchased the company allowing anyone to use the training for free. To try it out, head over to…
Create anything in 3D with CoSpaces, share your creations with your friends or dive into them in virtual reality. Get started – it’s free and easy! Source: CoSpaces: Making space for imagination I played around with it, and it is really easy to create your own scenes. Such as this one: Sign up unfortunately requires…
Listen to Podcasts is part 8 of 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Hot on the heels of RSS is Podcasts, a technology that relies on RSS to work. What are podcasts? The idea of podcasts has been around since the 1980s, but what is now commonly referred to as podcasts started in the…
