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Take a look at page 7 of the "Blended Learning Implementation Guide" by Digital Learning Now.…

Blended, Customized or Competency Learning?

2013 PASCD Annual Conference

“Educating the Whole Child” powered by Blendedschools.net

Conference Request for Proposals – Deadline: April 1, 2013

Applications Available at: www.pascd.org

The Conference Committee is hard at work…

For many months (years!) we have been talking about Common Core Standards.  So what is the big deal?  Why do educators need these standards?

The Common Core standards are a state-led initiative launched by governors and state commissioners of education.  These standards have 5 keys goals: improve student readiness for post-secondary paths to both college and career, designed to be robust and relevant to what takes place after high school, include rigorous and application of knowledge…

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Are you wondering what all this buzz about “3.0 courses” means for you or your students? 

If you want to know what all the excitement is, plan to attend the webinar where I am presenting “Repurposed Content in the Cloud” sponsored by SoftChalk. I will be sharing the long term vision for our BSNCLoud and how it will allow us to maintain and improve our courses at a faster pace in the near future.  We will also talk about how this new design engages and…

I read this very well done article by the New York Times reflecting on the essay written by the political scientist Andrew Hacker’s titled:  “Is Algebra Necessary?” . The article offers some real life applications of Algebra and even aligns these connections to Common Core Standards in Mathematics.…

OpenEndedAssignments.ppt

This session will review the the many tools in Blackboard that allow teachers to collect open ended  assignments from their students.  The session will focus on how to design open ended assignments so they challenge students to think deeply about the content.…

CurricWebinar30.ppt

This session will discuss the theory of mastery learning while also introducing attendees to the new 3.0 course design and and the reporting features of this design.…

Collaboration.ppt

This session will review the discussion board, blog and wiki tools in Blackboard while also providing specific instructional strategies of how to use the tools for stronger student to student interaction.  The session will share guidelines and sentence frames that will help attendees…

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This session will incorporate research on Habits of Mind by Art Costa and Bena Kallick to design a lecture and share best practices for creating a lecture video.…

InstructionalStrategies.ppt

This session will review the research based strategies of Marzano Research Laboratory and highlight was to implement these in your Blackboard course. Examples of how to use many of the strategies will be shared.…

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This session will review the basics of embedding and hyperlinking to content on the web while also highlighting the BSNCloud.  The BSNCloud is a repository of learning objects, lessons, and units created by blendedschools.net open to members to use in their…

FormativeSummativeAssessments.ppt

This session will compare and contrast the differences in formative and summative assessments and discuss when and why to use each type of assessment. The session will also demonstrate how to use Blackboard tools to create each of these assessment…

Common%20Core.ppt

This session will explain the basics of what Common Core standards mean to teachers in the classroom and demonstrate how to align your content to Common Core with the standards alignment tool in Blackboard.

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