Building Online Learning Environments

Tracy Shaw

Edmodo

• This "facebookesque" site is a safe and easy way to have children utilize the computer in the classroom to interact with their peers and/or the teacher.

 • Allows teachers to post assignments with a deadline, take surveys

or polls, or just have children respond to a simple question. 

My edmodo:  www.edmodo.com 

Login:  tshaw@bensalemsd.orgPW:  belmont

Online Learning & Evaluation Tools

• A great way to create rubrics that can be utilized on the computer and/or printed

 Favorite sites:• Rubistar• Irubric

 My Rubrics:http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=U468X4&sp=yes http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=V468X3&sp=yes http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=G47W8A&sp=yes

Online Learning & Evaluation Tools Continued

There are a variety of wonderful websites to use to find lessons that can be implemented into the classroom immediately Favorite site: http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ I enjoy using google docs to create lessons.  I can share them with my colleagues and have access to them at both school and home! My lessons:

o Lesson 1o Lesson 2

Online Quizzes/Surveys

This was my favorite section of the Online Learning Environments.   Creating online quizzes/polls is extremely simple and fast.   I think it is a great way to integrate technology into the classroom, even with

limited resources. My Creations 

Survey 1 Survey 2 Survey 3

Online & New Media Solutions For Differentiated Instruction

• There are so many fun and creative places where teachers can integrate technology into the classroom.   I really enjoyed making a personal timeline, using linoit as a class "post-it" page, and glogster for online poster making.

 My Differentiated Instruction Products: - Linoit (user name: tshaw   pw: belmont) - Timetoast

Successes/Challenges/Moodle Learning

I have mostly all sucesses.  Every site that I went to, I really enjoyed and could find a way to utilize them in my classroom at some point in

time throughout the school year.    I did have trouble starting my online learning environment (edmodo) because I wasn't exactly sure

what I wanted to put on there.    I have such a set curriculum to follow in my reading intervention groups, that I really need to be creative to

make a page that is functional for my current teaching placement. 

I love moodle learning.   I think online learning is an excellent tool for educators that already have limited time to sit through three hour

courses one night a week for a semester.   I can complete the coursework on my own time, and still learn very valuable information

without sitting in a classroom.