RESOURCES PAGE:

SECTION A

1. Seven Things You Should Know About Virtual High Schools

2. Blackboard.com

3. Class.com

4. eClassroom

5. Mindquest

6. How To Find Quality Distance Learning High Schools

7. Online Courses at Charles City HS

8. Web Site Prerequisites

9. Web Hosting 

10. Self-Created Platform Types

11. Caveats and Suggestions for Online Courses

12. Speech given at MCTLC Fall Conference

 

SECTION B

 

ONLINE TEACHING RESOURCES FROM NCREL

(North Central Regional Educational Laboratory)

1. Key Elements of Online Learning (http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/overview/elements.asp)

2. Distance Education Clearinghouse (http://www.uwex.edu/disted/index.cfm)

3. Blackboard (http://www.blackboard.com/Teaching-Learning/Overview.aspx)

4. Distance Learning Center (http://www.usdla.org)

5. NICE NET (http://www.nicenet.org)

6. School Notes (http://www.schoolnotes.com)

7. Education in the Electronic Ether: On Being a Virtual Professor: (http://www.geteducated.com/articles/virtprof.htm)

8. Facilitating Every Student in an Online Course (http://www.ion.illinois.edu/pointers/2001_03/default.asp)

9. Handbook for Instructors for Electronic Discussion (http://www.osu.edu/education/ftad/Publications/elecdisc/pages/index.htm)

10. IMPLEMENTING THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES: Technology as Lever (http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html)

11. KCC Teaching and Learning Center (http://www.kcc-online.org/ktlc/competencies.html)

12. The New Student-Teacher Relationship (http://polaris.umuc.edu/~cschwebe/claudine/p4.html)

13. The Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator (http://www.emoderators.com/moderators/teach_online.html)

14. Online Education: No Subsititute for the Classroom (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lessons/lesjan03.php)

15. Transitioning Instructor Skills to the Virtual Classroom (http://www.acslearning.com/EdTechArticle.pdf)

16. Iowa Virtual Academy

17. Florida Virtual High School (http://www.flvs.net)

18. Holy Family Cyber High (http://www.holyfamilycyberhigh.ca)

19. Illinois Virtual high School (http://www.ivhs.org)

20. Kentucky Virtual High School (http://www.kyvs.org/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp)

21. Keystone National High School (http://www.keystonehighschool.com)

22. Maryland Virtual High School (http://mvhs1.mbhs.edu/mvhs.html)

23. Michigan Virtual High School (http://www.mivhs.org)

24. Nevada Virtual High School (http://www.distancelearninginfo.com/k12/n/nevada.html)

25. Ontario's Virtual High School (http://www.virtualhighschool.com)

26. Virginia Internet High School (http://www.internet-high.com/va/home.htm)

27.  147 Practical Tips for Teaching Online Groups
Essentials of web-based Education, by D. Hanna, M. Glowacki-Dudka and S. Conceigao-Runlee. ISBN: 1-891859-34-X

28. Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace
by Palloff and Pratt, Jossey-Bass Publishers www.josseybass.com, ISBN 0-7879-4460-2

29. Distance Learning
Making Connections Across Virtual Space and Time, by Anthony G. Picciano. ISBN 0-13-080900-4

30. Facilitating Online Learning
Effective Strategies for Moderators, by George Colison, Bonnie Elbaum, Srah Haavind, and Robert Tinker, Atwood Publishing, ISBN 1-891859-33-1

31. Interactive Distance Learning Exercises that REALLY Work
Turn Classroom Excercised into Effective and Enjoyable Distance Learning Activities, by Karen Mantyla. ISBN 1-56286-128-X

32. Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom
The Realities of Online Teaching, by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt, Jossey Bass Publishers, ISBN0-7879-5519-1

33. The Online Teaching Guide
The Online Teaching Guide, A Handbook of Attitudes, Strategies, and Techniques for the Virtual Classroom. By Ken White and Bob H. Weight, Allyn and Bacon Publishers ISBN: 0-205-29531-2

34. Teaching Online, A Practical Guide
by Susan Ko and Steven Rossen, Houghton Mifflin Publishers, http://college.hmco.com, ISBN 0-618-00042-9

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This page was updated April 19, 2009.