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  Before you begin, please review and accept the Code of Conduct provided by ISTE. SigTel becomes SigOLSigTel is one of the longest serving special interest groups within ISTE as evidence by the description of telelearning. Today, ISTE hosts a variety of Sigs focused on using distance technology. With this growth, SigTel members are defining their focus on online learning. Last year we submitted a proposal to change the name of the SIG from Telelearning to Online Learning and the ISTE Board approved. Join us for our first business meeting on Monday at 11:00 in room WWCC 209B. See you then!Agenda for Business MeetingIntroduction of Officers -Dr. Kecia Ray, President Mrs. Anita Harris, Vice President Online Learning Award - 500 dollar award for first prize, membership for second and third place Organized by Dr. Yvonne Marie-Andres with Global School Net New Committees: we need volunteers for membership and chair of these committees Professional Learning - Webinars Communication - Online Bulletin, Wiki, Twitter, Nomination - Vice President election and appointed officers Collaborative Projects - connects with potential partners and other SIGs to create or monitor collaborative projects Collaborative Projects SigIVC Collaboration - Mano - Mississippi River Project, Remote NECC Project Global Collaboration - we need someone to take the lead on identifying members involved in global collaboration Potential Collaborators: SREB NACOL USDLA If you are interested in participating in our SIG please email us at sigol2009@gmail.comWe look forward to hearing from you!!!!Topics for Online WebinarsIf you have a topic for which you would like us to plan a webinar, please email jemeizel@gmail.com SIGTEL and SIGDE cosponsor Forum at NECC 2009CyberLearning for ALL Students for Success (CLASS)Learn to create CyberLearning environments using various communication and networking technologies, and other applications such as Moodle, GoogleApps, SL, and Mashup to enable ALL students, including children with special needs to participate in telecollaborative projects or in online courses. Learn about existing collaborative projects created for your students. We will also discuss how to provide professional development for new online teachers.Speakers are: Bonnie Thurber, Jeff Sale, and Aaron DoeringDate: June 29Time 12 noon to 4 pm Register through Necc Registration page. If you are already registered to attend NECC. reaccess registration. Please ignore any schedule conflict messages and register by May 29, 2009Jeff Sale - Presentation Focus:A mashup, according to Google, is "a Web site that combines content data from more than one source to create a new user experience". This session will introduce mashups to K-12 educators focusing on collaborative approaches to mashup creation in a variety of disciplines including science, politics, society, art, and history. We will demonstrate how students from different parts of the world can work together to create mashups that help them learn about other communities and cultures, with an emphasis on map-based mashups that are very accessible to teachers and their students. The process by which students can work together to create a group-based geo-referenced image mashup with be shown in detail. More sophisticated and even some entertaining mashups as well as mashup authoring tools will be introduced, and links to a fuller introduction to these tools will be provided. Applications to be demonstrated include Google Earth, the Google Mashups Editor, and Microsoft Popfly. Participants will attain a basic understanding of mashup development technologies, examples of mashups useful in education, collaborative tools used to support mashup creation, and they will be provided with an account on the SDSC Discover Data Portal, a collaborative education portal built with Moodle, to continue their mashup explorations following the workshop.Bonnie Thurber - Presentation FocusCyber Learning for All StudentS in the iCollaboratory.Bonne will show examples of a variety of student work including stories, essays, poetry, voice-messages and videos using a variety of internet based tools that are linked together and shared in the iCollaboratory. I will also talk about the participants and participations and how audience members can be involved. Students in these projects are from all over and have a wide variety of skills from ADD, BD, ESL and gifted and they are all sharing what they can write, say via voice or video. I thought I sent a formal plerb be Aaron Doering: will speak about online adventure learning environments (http://www.polarhusky.com), online scaffolding environments, and online community-building environmentsPlease email talaivermp@longwood.edu if you have questions. 2009 SIGTel Online Learning Award Competition Seeks EntriesHave you and your students been involved or are you involved in an original, online learning activity? If so, we encourage you to enter the 2009 SIGTel Online Learning Award competition. Since 1991, ISTE's Telelearning Special Interest Group (SIGTel), has recognized creative teachers for their pioneering use of telecommunication networks to provide innovative learning opportunities for school-age students K–16. => Submit entry at http://www.iste.org/sigtel 2009 SIGTel Online Learning Award Competition - Note changes in incentivesDear Colleague, PLEASE help us by forwarding this announcement to *at least one* educator who you think is providing innovative online learning experiences to students or other teachers. A N N O U N C E M E N T: 2009 SIGtel Online Learning Award CompetitionDeadline April 4, 2009Have you and your students been involved in an original, online learning activity? If so, we encourage you to enter the 2009 SIGtel Online Learning Award competition. Since 1991, ISTE's Telelearning Special Interest Group (SIGtel), has recognized creative teachers for their pioneering use of online networks to provide innovative learning opportunities for school-age students K–16. Educators worldwide are elible.1st place winner receives $500 cash award, free NECC conference registration, invitation to present their project at NECC and a one year ISTE membershi2nd place winner receives free NECC conference registration, invitation to present their project at NECC and a one year ISTE membership3rd place winner receives invitation to present their project at NECC and a one year ISTE membership*All awardees will receive an invitation to present their project during a web poster session at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Washington, DC.=> Submit entry at http://www.iste.org/sigtelENTRY INFORMATION:• Entries need to describe INNOVATIVE online learning activities that will have been completed between 1 February 2008 and 1 June 2009. • Submission process officially opens January 26, 2009. An online entry form will be posted here on the open date. Deadline to submit is April 4, 2009. • Applicants must provide the names and contact information for two references who are willing to support the application and are willing to be contacted during the submission and review process. AWARD: 1. Awardees will be announced in April 2009. 2. All awardees will receive an invitation to present their project during a web poster session at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Washington, DC, June/July 2009. Awardees will need to provide project information and photos for online and/or conference publications; deadlines to be provided when awardees are announced. Project contributors or partners are welcome to participate in the NECC poster session but only the author will receive an award. All expenses relating to registration and travel to NECC are the responsibility of the honoree, contributors, or partners planning to attend. 3. Awardees will be given a one-year standard membership in ISTE and concurrent membership in ISTE's Telelearning Special Interest Group. 4. SIGtel will publish the winning entries, and the respective authors’ reflections in its online publication, SIGtel Bulletin, and archive the work as exemplary projects on the SIGtel Web area. All awardees will be required to supply a reflection about their project when contacted by the SIGtel Bulletin editors. 5. SIGtel will provide press release information and photo opportunities at NECC 2008 for winners to publicize their award via their local media. CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT: Entries will be evaluated using a rubric based on the following attributes (weightings are shown as a percentage of final score): • Detailed description of the online learning activity from initial planning to the final evaluation (40%) • Description of how the online aspect of the learning activity enhanced the regular classroom program (15%) • Description of how the online learning activity was evaluated and the extent to which original aims and objectives were met (20%) • Consideration of what the entrant learned from the online learning activity in their classroom with comments and recommendations for development and involvement in future similar activities (25%) Descriptions should be sufficiently detailed to allow another educator to follow the same process, modifying it to meet the requirements of their own classrooms. => Submit entry at http://www.iste.org/sigtel Dr. Yvonne Marie Andrés yvonne@globalschoolnet.org SIGtel Online Learning Awards Chair President & Co-Founder, GlobalSchoolNet.org Notice:Greetings all! As educational technology professors in the School of Education at Indiana University, we are often looking for new curriculum and ways to prepare our teachers to be great technology users. We believe that it is important to look at how actual teachers are using technology to help inform our curriculum and methods. We were hoping you could fill out a brief survey (if you are currently teaching) and/or forward this email to other teachers who are great technology users. It will take approximately 12-20 minutes of their time, but they will be helping drive the curriculum for at least 800+ teacher graduates each year. In addition, we will be sharing the results with all our colleagues around the United States. The link is located at the bottom of this email ( http://www.surveyshare.com/survey/take/?sid=83329). If you have any questions, or comments that are not addressed in this survey, you can send me an email at left@indiana.edu. Thank you again so much for your time and have a wonderful day! Sincerely, Anne Leftwich Assistant Professor in Instructional Systems Technology -and- Tom Brush Associate Professor in Instructional Systems Technology Associate Dean of the School of Education Indiana University _ Webinar! Webinar! Webinar!SIGTEL sponsored webinar on December 8th was excellent!Topic: What Online Teachers Need to Know and DoResearch shows that the teacher is the single most important factor in an online student's success. While content knowledge transfers from a brick-and-mortar classroom to an online one, the classroom management and student communication skills do not. In this webinar, we'll examine the things online teachers need to know and do to help their students be successful in the context of designing a comprehensive professional development program for new online teachers. We look forward to many more. 2008- Focus: 21st Century Telecollaboration: Connectivism, Curriculum, and the Virtual Classroom(Click on NECC 2008 (left navigation bar) and Click on SIGTEL Forum to download documents of the presentation).To see notes from the forum...Session description: 21st century knowledge is collaboratively conceptualized, built, and shared. In creating it together, we express what we are. The read-write Web demonstrates how this knowledge is collaboratively constructed. How, then, is it appropriated for connectivist learning and teaching--presently and in the future? What are the implications for teacher knowledge-building, professional development, and assessment? This forum will connect theory with practice in multiple ways to address these questions. Expert speakers: Dr. David Thornburg, Thornburg Center Dr. Judi Harris, College of William & Mary Allison Powell, NACOL. Online Learning Award Winners 2008http://sigtel.iste.wikispaces.net/Online Learning Award 2008For SIGTel members, we need your feedback:1. SIGTEL Online Bulletin needs articles from you.2. What kind of topics do we want to explore/discuss in the NECC Forum (3 hours)? 3. Do you have suggestions for any speakers for the Forum? 4. Do you have any suggestion for speakers on web 3.0? Annual Report 2007-08SIGTEL Tentative Plans for 2008-09Please speak up and tell us what activities would you like us to pursue? Here is a tentative plan.Minutes from the Annual Meeting Dr. José Aste suggested that we need to discuss guidelines for parents for their children's internet use. Join the discussion with your ideas What topics would you like to discuss? Let us know so we can do things that are important to you new topics Do you have a project that is looking for participants? Create your community by listing your project here.__ |
