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EDNET Faculty Training
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EDNET Resources
10 Steps to Implementing a Distance Learning Program
PDF Document
Successful distance learning implementation of interactive video distance learning requires innovative technology, but also the creative energy of human instructors. Here are 10 ways to make the transition smoother
A Sample Student Lesson Instructional Study Guide
PDF Document
Need an Instructional Study Guide for you and your distance learning students. Here is a proven model (template) that you can use for lesson organization and student interaction (notetaking) at the same time.
Bandwidth Frequency Allocation Chart NTIA
PDF Document
The NTIA has published a Bandwidth Frequency Allocation Chart that shows the entire electromagnetic spectrum. You'll need to zoom in close to the text to read it. The chart can also be purchased and put on the wall. Cost is about $6.50. See http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html
Best Practices for E Learning
PDF Document
These Best Practices have been developed by the eight regional accrediting commissions in response to the emergence of technologically mediated instruction offered at a distance as an important component of higher education. Expressing in detail what currently constitutes best practice in distance education they seek to address concerns that regional accreditation standards are not relevant to the new distributed learning environments, especially when those environments are experienced by off-campus students.
Big 6 Research Methodology for Students
PDF Document
This check list itemizes basic research skills which need to be mastered in order for students to graduate as lifelong information problem-solvers. As you develop your I-search assignment and grading sheet you should include as many steps as you are able. This template is a two-page document that teachers can use in the classroom with their students.
Blackboard.com Strategies
PDF Document
The Utah Electronic High School will soon be using Blackboard's Courseware Management System to design and deliver its classes. Read about who Blackboard.com is and what their product strategy is all about.
Clipart on the Web by Joe Spendlove
PDF Document
Joe Spendlove of Granite School District has collected some great Internet links (URL's) to clipart on the Web.
Distance Learning Barriers for Instructors and Students
PDF Document
This is an interesting and persuasive analysis of some negative applications and usages of technology in the Distance Learning arena. We first came across this material in DEOS-L where it was posted May 8, 2001. Permission to edit and republish was granted by Mr. Nugent with acknowledgement to DEOS-L. We requested to use this statement because it pinpoints well known technology based teaching and learning problems incisively and clearly.
Distance Learning Catalog
http://wwwj1.uen.org/catalog?code=1N&sub=006n
Distance Learning Catalog of classes for Utah Schools.
EDNET Home Page
http://www.uen.org/ednet.html
Find all the information you need to know about EDNET.
EDNET Operations Directory
http://www.uen.org/usf/contact.cgi
EDNET contact list of EDNET sites in Utah. Shows "Who's Who "
in EDNET.
EDNET Schedule Access
http://www.uen.org/ednet/sched.html
Search the EDNET Cme Schedule
Evaluation in Distance Learning Courses
PDF Document
Many times evaluation of the product/class after it has been implemented is forgotten. With the constant evolution of distant learning and new technologies being used in instructional design, what focuses and tools are used in evaluating distance learning? Read on for an excellent paper by a local Utah educator, Paul Michniewicz at Salt Lake Community College...
Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources
in Ancient and Modern Literature. This tenth edition of 1919 contains over
11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett's
corpus to be published after his death in 1905-the new editor, however,
choosing more to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations.
Handouts Are Vital to Your Success
PDF Document
Do you question the value of putting time and energy into creating handouts
for your meetings and presentations? If you generally throw something together
at the last minute, or just run off a few pages on the copier, it's obvious
you don't realize how vital handouts are to your success as an instructor/presenter.
Here is a two page article; quick and easy to read, that will give you
some ideas about using handouts in your lessons and presentations.
Interactive Research Report Farr
PDF Document
An 18 page Review of the Literature regarding Interactivity in Distance Learning. By Jamie Goodman Farr of the University of Utah.
Internet Resources for EDNET Educators
PDF Document
Great Internet resources on the web for Utah educators. The American Memory Project, Library of Congress, Copyright Information, Weber School District, Teacher Registration at UtahLINK, UTAP, Training Resources.
Internet Technology for Schools
PDF Document
The topic of Internet-enabled education is particularly important for K-12 institutions because these institutions will increasingly be introducing students to technological resources that have become pervasive in the digital age. 11 pages
Journals in the field of Instructional Technology
PDF Document
A list prepared by Utah State University Doctoral student Sang Joon Lee. This pdf file has the names and URL address of 36 Journals, websites, and magazine related to instuctional technology and distance learning. If you're looking for research materials in these areas, look no further....
Leading Teachers into New Technology L Crawley
PDF Document
Leading Teachers Into Technology By Lois Crawley. July 14, 2000. "I've been teaching for seventeen years, and my methods work great. Why change now?" "My students score well on the core tests. If it isn't broken don't fix it." A 7 page paper by teacher Lois Crawley on how to get teachers involved with new technology.
Lord of the Flies Web Quest
PDF Document
A webquest prepared by EDNET teachers. You and those in your group are marooned on the same deserted, tropical island as those in the novel, except the characters are NOT there. Your first assignment is to figure out how to survive as a group (and also, of course, what you'll do for fun) and to record the information you come up with in a survival manual for use on the island.
Mendez i Translator
http://itranslator.mendez.com/MSOffice/MSOffice10Eng_us-EntryPage.htm
Need a good language translator..Microsoft folks have come up with Mendez
iTranslator. It's easy and according to Jaun Balderas in Ogden District,
"Squeeky Clean." You do have to register, but it's all free.
Models of Online Learning
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/magazine/vol2_issue2/Masonfinal.htm
Online learning occurs in many formats. Dr. Robin Mason of the Open University
provides an excellent summary in this 1998 paper. Evolution of these learning
paradigms continues as a result of technological innovation, experimentation,
and new instructional designs. This paper is reprinted with permission from
the conference proceedings, "Networked Lifelong Learning: Innovative
Approaches to Education and Training Through the Internet" edited by
L. Banks, C. Graebner, and D. McConnell, University of Sheffield, 1998.
It was also published in ALN Magazine, a publication of Asynchronous Learning
Networks.
Online Collaboration Tools
PDF Document
Online Collaboration Tools are software tools that the distance learning/online instructor can use besides videoconferencing. Many of these tools are asynchronous. All are free. This pdf will introduce you to a brief document listing these tools and Internet addresses of where to find them. Good hunting!
Preparing Children for the Information Age
PDF Document
Preparing today's youth for tomorrow. The challenge of education today is to provide students with the necessary knowledge for their future work environment and to contribute to the economic vitality of the country. Employers demand better-educated workers - workers armed with computer literacy, problem solving analysis and critical thinking skills in addition to their basic reading, math and writing abilities. In order for the U.S. economy to be competitive in the world market, the education system needs to raise American students' academic level to that of their European and Asian counterparts.
Public Education Course List
PDF Document
This Excel spreadsheet is a list of all EDNET classes that are being taught over EDNET during the school year. This document will assist teachers and administrators in deciding what classes they want to receive or want to send (originate) at their school. This document is a must for any EDNET Administrator.
Quotations Home Page
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2012/quote.html
The collections presented here contain thousands of quotations, old and
new, familiar and obscure, humorous and pompous, ironic and maybe even a
little profound. This site is intended as a place for enjoyment, enlightenment,
exploration and general reference.
Real Producer G2 Streaming Video
PDF Document
Here are the instructions for installing Real Producer on your Computer. Many of you have probably used Real Player to get streaming audio or video. Real Producer is made by the same company--it's free. This will allow you to send an audio file (you speaking) to anyone, or add a voice clip onto a web page. See http://www.real.com/
Research in Distance Education DEOS 11012001
PDF Document
For a discipline to be recognized as a serious field of study, a body of research involving its basic tenants, structures, and core domain of knowledge must be examined on a regular basis. Research literature of a discipline shows the culture of the discipline ... the specialised knowledge and examples of research procedures that are unique to the discipline in summarizing early efforts in distance education research, stated that, while
distance education was over 100 years old, research in distance education did not appear until after World War II. In fact, with few exceptions, the earliest research reports, articles, bibliographies, and monographs were published in the 1960s. This article reviews the basic structure of distance education research as it currently exists in the literature. It also reviews the literature that has made recommendations for priorities to be set within distance education research. It is my contention here, however, that while there is a need to narrow or prioritize the most productive areas that should appear on a
research agenda in distance education, the field remains too complex to gain consensus necessary for such a consistent or unifying framework to emerge. Even though the field is relatively new, there have been several researchers who have outlined the basic structure of existing distance education research. Given this, scholars have called for a consistent, conceptual framework for research in distance education as a basis for a "unifying theory" of distance education.
Screen Captures
PDF Document
You want a reliable tool to capture screen movement and voice for an application-training project. Where do you turn? Here's some help…
Six Principles of Effective e-Learning: What Works and Why
PDF Document
Six Principles of Effective e-Learning: What Works and Why By Ruth Clark, Ph.D. To readily identify effective e-Learning, we need fewer end-user and expert opinions and more data. Decisions about e-Learning courseware must begin with an understanding of how the mind works during learning and of what research tells us about the factors that lead to learning. Here are six principles that have emerged from controlled experiments in how to best use multimedia to optimize learning. The pdf document is 9 pages long...
Teaching Algebra Online
PDF Document
An alternative delivery system for algebra. 6 page report that the review the implementation of such a course to gain insight into the problems and success of the course.
Teaching Native American Students Guy Bensusan
PDF Document
The Writings of Guy Bensusan at Northern Arizona University. Guy is a respected leader in video teleconferencing with Native American Students. There are perspectives and understandings that EDNET teachers can use in their teaching via technology. He shows us how to motivate students and achieve results with anywhere-anytime collaborative learning that are the envy of most classroom teachers....
Technology Management - Twelve Steps
PDF Document
TWELVE STEPS TO TRIMMING YOUR TCO. As schools purchase computers at an ever-growing rate, it becomes increasingly critical for them to implement strategies to get the most out of their investment. The easiest way to do this is to pay attention to total cost of ownership (TCO). 12 pages
The Role of the Instructor in Web
PDF Document
A recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reports research
conducted by Robert. P. Ouellette, director of technology-management programs at the University of Maryland, University College. His conclusions are that professors who recognize the different learning styles among their students and the differences between distance and face-to-face programs have more-successful online courses.
Using Accelerated Reading and Cross Age Tutoring
PDF Document
By Ian Jukes and Ted McCain. Look out! Here comes the global 14 Pages. Comprehensive School Reading Improvement Plan Using Accelerated Reading, Cross Age Tutoring, and Reading Renaissance Techniques To Improve Reading Ability By: Catherine Ann Reed Big Water School, Big Water. Utah.
Using Rubrics to Promote Thinking and Learning
PDF Document
11 pages. Rubrics make assessing student work quick and efficient, and they help teachers justify to parents and others the grades they assign to students. EDNET teachers should carefully assess their distance learning students by using rubrics early on in planning and presentation.
Utah's 5 Year Technology Plan Evaluation Tool
PDF Document
The Milken Framework plan for Technology Evaluation.
Utah's Accountability System
PDF Document
Education in Utah has focused upon challenging academic content standards since 1984 when an arduous and comprehensive process of establishing content standards for all subjects taught in Utah's public schools was completed. The resulting standards, referred to as Utah's Core Curriculum, have been in place since that time and represent a high level of expectation for students. This framework of standards, supported by detailed objectives and indicators, are in place for students in grades K-6 and each course in grades 7-12 in reading/language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, fine arts, health, physical education, educational technology, and library media...
Utah's Electronic High School
http://ehs.uen.org/
Utah's Electronic High School provides access to distance-education courses
for high school students in grades 9 through 12. Courses are delivered in
a number of ways over broadcast television on KUED and KULC over the EDNET
system for two-way conferencing and over the Internet .
Virtual Field Trips NEW
PowerPoint
Pam Turley from Nebo School District has prepared an excellent activity on Virtual Field Trips...What they are, what they look like. About 18 slides. Very good. Pam did this as part of her Instructional Technology Master's Degree at Utah State University during the Spring of 2004.
Weber District PowerPoint Repository
http://www.uen.org/News/article.cgi?category_id=6&article_id=966
Administrator, Allen Griffin has given us permission to access their PowerPoint
Repository. Lots of lessons from many different teachers. Find a lesson
you need for Science, Math, English, etc. The link is on the EDNET Newsletter
Site....
Webquests
PDF
Document
A listing of four web site addresses (URL's) for webquests. Kathy Schrock's
Webquest, Working the Web for Education, The Webquest PagePacific, and Pacific
Bell's Educational Site (Filamentality)
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USOE Distance Learning Training Specialist (K-12):
George T.W. Miller Jr. This site last updated March 8, 2007
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