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.
Renderforest is another option for online video and animation creation Very cool app for creation of videos. Google’s Chromebook support guides A list of every guide Google offers for the Chromebook. Google Sheets is gaining the ability to rotate text!! FINALLY!!
And yet many of the technological tools seem to be designed by someone who doesn’t understand much about the brain and how it operates. Too much information gets thrown at us at once, too many visual elements clutter up the display, and the steps that must be taken to get us what we want aren’t…
The transformation spans hardware (thinner, lighter, smaller, cheaper, longer battery life, instant on/off, touch, sensors, connectivity, etc.), operating systems (more: secure, reliable, maintainable, robust, etc.), and app software (refactored, renewed, reimagined, etc.). It is the combination of these attributes, however, causing a change as fundamental as the leap from mainframe to workstation, from character-based to…
In a world where so much knowledge is a two-second search away, many schools are losing interest in models that promote static learning to know. They’re looking to embrace dynamic models that promote learning to do and learning to be. Project-Based Learning (PBL) allows learners to develop skills by solving meaningful, real-world challenges , i.e. organizing…
Lumio for Google Chrome helps you curate and share information. To get started, you’ll need to use Google Chrome and install the lumio extension. Google Accounts are supported for signup, so that’s one less username and password you’ll need to remember. Lumio works a lot like the Google Keep extension, with one difference. Information can be…
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