Create 4.1.3 – Aggregating Lesson Material Quest

Create 4.1.3 – Aggregating Lesson Material Quest

Content Management Systems are frameworks that are pre-built that educators can customize for courses and classwork.

Three top Content Management Systems for online educators include the following:

1. Joomla- businesses like Ebay, GE, McDonald's, Burger King, Barnes & Noble use Joomia. It is very popular with the masses. It is user friendly for teachers to upload content and blog. It is an open source and free for users.










2. Wordpress- is one of the top CMS in the online community with heavy hitters like Ebay, Yahoo, Ford, Wall Street Journal. Users can add posts, edit pages, and download content easily. Lots of programmers are involved with Wordpress so glitches are automatically fixed. Lots of plug ins to social media. It works very well with Google. It is also an open source and is free to users.


3. Magento- is not free, but you can use the free trial before purchasing. This is a great tool for small businesses. Easy to use and content can be easily managed.

Create 4.1.2 – Principles of Building Portable Learning Objects Quest

Create 4.1.2 – Principles of Building Portable Learning Objects Quest

Graduation Rate Video to Share with our schools in Floyd County and at our Graduation Rate Celebration we had with our system administrators, principals, and board members. I used pictures and videos from the schools to compile this video in Magisto.

I am our system AdvancED/SACS coordinator. We are getting ready for our accreditation process. We have named our system chairs and need names from each school. I developed a Google Form to collect the information from our 19 principals and schools. This put it in a form for me to easily use. The Google Form I developed was sent to the principals for them to complete and make this task easy and uniform throughout our system.

Create 4.1.1 – Define and Explain Learning Object Authoring Tools Quest

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Create 4.1.1 – Define and Explain Learning Object Authoring Tools Quest

Free and Open Source Learning Object Authoring Tools

1. http://www.what2learn.com/ What 2 Learn

This is a great site for educators to offer educational games to students to enhance their learning experience and make it entertaining. 

2. http://www.jelsim.org/tools.html  Jelsim

This tool provides educators with a way to build simulations and virtual experiences for students. Teachers  must use Java to create. This is more for technological advanced educators. It is definitely not for a novice or beginner.

3. http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/ Hot Potato

Allows teachers to create various activities and experiences for their students including  interactive assessments for educators to use in the evaluation process.

Fee/Subscription Based Learning Object Authoring Tools

1. https://www.articulate.com/ Artculate

Offers a free trial! Provides various avenues for educators to create engaging and thought provoking online classes with enhanced technology tools.

2. http://www.magisto.com/video Magisto

Is a movie, video, slide show maker that can be utilized by educators to embed clips, videos, etc.. into course work or to be used by students for assignments. Very engaging.

Create 3.1.3 – Locating Resources Quest

Create 3.1.3 – Locating Resources Quest

Gifted Teachers need to know about Creativity. (Image from Openclipart.com)



Creativity does not need to be stifled in gifted learners. (Source is http://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&q=creativity&tbs=sur:fm&gws_rd=ssl&surl=1&safe=active&ssui=on)
I searched on Creative Common site and this can be modified, tweaked, edited for noncommercial use.

Creativity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia- Searched on Creative Commons and took me here.

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and in some way valuable is created (such as an idea, a joke, a literary work, painting or musical composition, a solution, an invention etc). The range of scholarly interest in creativity includes a multitude of definitions and approaches involving several disciplines; psychology, cognitive science, education, philosophy (particularly philosophy of science), technology, theology, sociology, linguistics, business studies, songwriting and economics, taking in the relationship between creativity and general intelligence, mental and neurological processes associated with creativity, the relationships between personality type and creative ability and between creativity and mental health, the potential for fostering creativity through education and training, especially as augmented by technology, and the application of creative resources to improve the effectiveness of learning and teaching processes.

This Youtube video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1KHjKgh3j0&index=1&list=LL1BeL9-gur0sDYT68y1dXAw

Ted Talks- Sir Ken Robinson discusses How Schools Stifle Creativity.

How Do Schools Kill Creativity

Create 3.1.2 – Fair Use and the TEACH Act Quest

Create 3.1.2 – Fair Use and the TEACH Act Quest

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• How does an understanding of Fair Use affect one’s role as an online instructor?

The Fair Use Act can really an online instructor in their knowledge of what they can use by law in their instruction.

As long as it is directly related to classroom use and is factual or nonfiction in nature, along with not using all of the material but excerpts, an instructor should be able to implement the material in their classroom.

There are four main elements that should be considered when deciding if the material could be used under the Fair Use Act. Instructors should look at the purpose of the material in the classroom first and foremost. It is related to the instruction, factual, newsworthy, etc.. Second educators should consider the nature of the material- is it a published work? Nonfiction? Correlated with the objectives and standards of the class? Thirdly, teachers need to look at the amount of material that will be used. Is it pieces, excerpts or the whole book, etc...? And finally, what effect will using this material have on the market? Will it be significant and miniscule?

• How do Fair Use and the TEACH Act correlate to the delivery of reliable content?

Fair Use and TEACH Act correlate directly in the delivery of reliable, factual, and historical information for instructors. These laws and regulations equip online educators with resources that can be utilized for instruction without "breaking the bank."

Create 3.1.1. – Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Quest

Create 3.1.1. – Open Educational Resources and Creative Commons Quest

Definition of Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources are FREE resources that teachers, parents, students, and administrators can use that are posted online. This includes but not limited too... lessons, videos, demonstrations, courses, quizzes, assignments, projects, games, activities, tasks, etc....

This wordle from ABCya! is a visual image of the definition for Open Educational Resources.

Creative Common Licenses
CC licences are not an alternative to copyright but instead they work with copyright and help bridge a gap for educators to be able to use videos, songs, images, ect.. in the classroom.
1. 

Attribution
CC BY

This is the most accommodating licenses- allows you to get credit for your work and share for others to tweak, change and alter.

2. 

Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-ND

This is allows folks to use but can not be altered or change and must give you credit.

3. 

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA

This is allows others to use and change as long as it is noncommercial and gives you credit.

4. 

Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA

"Copyleft" allows others to use even commercially as long as they give you credit.

5. 

Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC

Others can rebuild upon your work noncommercially and give you credit on the original work.

6. 

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND

Strictest of all the licenses. Allows others to use work, but can not change and must give you credit.

Create 2.1.3 – Using Web 2.0 Tools to Differentiate Student Assessment Quest

Create 2.1.3 – Using Web 2.0 Tools to Differentiate Student Assessment Quest

Educational Binders

iPads in Schools

Free Technology Tools for Teachers

Resources for Families: Addition and Subtraction Strategies

Common Core Middle Grades Math

LiveBinders - Your 3-ring binder for the web

• Collect your resources
• Organize them neatly and easily
• Make an impression

Livebinders is an excellent tool to use for both instruction and assessment.

http://www.livebinders.com/welcome/home


Teachers can use Livebinders to keep as resources for themselves, units, or even to use with parents.

Students can use Livebinders as portfolios to show their work for the year in the classroom or house all of their resources for their classes. Assignments, projects, games, etc... can be put in a livebinder for students.

Create 2.1.2 – Using Web 2.0 Tools to Differentiate Teacher Instruction Quest

Create 2.1.2 – Using Web 2.0 Tools to Differentiate Teacher Instruction Quest

Graduation Destination- Celebration of the Graduation Rate for Floyd County Schools using Web 2.0 tool Animoto.