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NGLC Wave III

blendedschools.net was a finalist for a Wave II funding. blendedschools.net is not eligible to be a principal investigator for a Next Generation Learning Challenge Wave III grant. As you may know, Wave III is profoundly different. If you have not read the RFP in entirety, here is a synopsis:



Rolling Deadline: Wave IIIa will accept applications on a rolling-application basis starting October 5,…

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Added by Jed Friedrichsen on November 9, 2011 at 8:58am — No Comments

2011 blendedschools.net conference

Instead of hosting our own conference this year, we are partnering with the Pennsylvania Association for Supervision and Curriculum development to deliver a joint, innovavative conference called …

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Added by Jed Friedrichsen on September 16, 2011 at 3:08pm — No Comments

Help your students get online

Comcast is interested in helping more students and families get online. They are offering Internet for $9.95 per month and $150 laptops for students elgible for free lunch. For more information on how your school can help students benefit from this opportunity, please check out Comcast's … Continue

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on September 16, 2011 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Standards for Quality Online Teaching

The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) requests your participation in an important survey about quality standards for online teaching. A committee of participants worked to refresh the current iNACOL teaching quality standards. The updates are … Continue

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on September 16, 2011 at 2:53pm — No Comments

Blackboard World

Blackboard World 2012 Call for Presentations is now open. The conference will be held in New Orleans, July 10-13. At Bb World, you will meet and share with innovative educators from K-12, higher education, government and corporate online… Continue

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on September 16, 2011 at 2:52pm — No Comments

Search for Leading Edge School Districts



Your district uses digital media, Web 2.0 and/or student owned mobile devices. CoSN wants to hear from you. 



 

Over the past three years, CoSN, with support from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and others, created a highly rated leadership initiative for school district leaders called “…

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Added by Jed Friedrichsen on September 16, 2011 at 2:51pm — No Comments

Bb Mobile

Are you and your students using Bb Mobile? If not, it's time. Blackboard Mobile just keeps getting better and better. It now has a help section, back and forward buttons in the browser, and now you can post entries to Discussions, Blogs and Journals. Check out the latest Mark and Mark in… Continue

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on September 16, 2011 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Macro Economics Course Honored

Congratulations to Alicia Ross and Deanna Mayers for receiving a 2011Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Award for the Macro Economics online course produced by blendedschools.net in partnership with VLINC. The Blackboard Exemplary Course Program began in 2000 with the… Continue

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on September 16, 2011 at 2:30pm — No Comments

New BSN courses and updates



BSN Course Updates

Each course in the BSN catalog has some exciting new features. 

  • Students can now mark…
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Added by Jed Friedrichsen on September 16, 2011 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Online Learning Innovators Awards

The iNACOL Online Learning Innovator Awards recognize learning practices, new research and individual achievements in the field. Four awards will be presented at the Virtual School Symposium in November.

  • iNACOL Research Award
  • Innovative Online Learning Practice Award
  • Outstanding Individual Contribution to K-12 Online…
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Added by Jed Friedrichsen on September 16, 2011 at 2:30pm — No Comments

NBC Learn

New in our Blackboard system is NBC Learn. It gives you instant access to video spanning 50 years, all academic areas and all grade levels. NBC Learn K-12 makes thousands of historic videos, current events, and original resources available to K-12 teachers and students, all aligned to state standards and mapped to curriculum. From your Blackboard class, you will find NBC Learn under the "Build Content" and "Mashups" tool. … Continue

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on September 16, 2011 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Become an Untethered Teacher--it's painless!

BSN now provides the opportunity for you to access and manage your online classes from your handheld device, using Blackboard Mobile Learn. Whether you use a Droid, Blackberry, iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone, after installing the free app, you can access documents in multiple formats, post announcements, create discussion threads and posts, and comment on blogs and journals, all from your mobile devices. … Continue

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on February 24, 2011 at 4:23pm — No Comments

Enrich online learning at your school at no expense by joining BSN's NGLC grant

blendedschools.net will be submitting a Next Generation Learning ChallengesWave 2 Early Stage Adoption grant proposal. I encourage your district to apply to be a…

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Added by Jed Friedrichsen on February 24, 2011 at 4:19pm — No Comments

Help Wanted: temporary course developer positions

--- Course Developer Applications being…

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Added by Jed Friedrichsen on May 18, 2010 at 11:20am — No Comments

Wimba Classroom Upgrade

Tomorrow morning, Sunday, May 16th, at 1:00 AM and ending at 6:00 AM EST our Wimba Classroom server will be down and unavailable. During this period, Wimba will be upgrading our Wimba classroom to the latest version, 6.1. This will include the following new features: …

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Added by Jed Friedrichsen on May 15, 2010 at 9:33am — No Comments

How to be a successful teacher

Teacher Index is a website full of helpful tips for being a successful teacher. The tips include how to use online resources, how to create a green classroom, how to use homework effectively, how to get parents involved and much more.

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on January 27, 2010 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Students ARE different

When I started my first year of teaching at Omaha Bryan Senior High School, the second half of our new teacher induction program was an oration by my department chair, Fred Schoning, on how students are different today than "back in the day..." At the time I thought Fred was just a cynical old coot, but no longer. Oh, Fred was and still is cynical. And if he wasn't old then.... But he was right. Students are different. Earlier this week, I attended a presentation by and participated in a… Continue

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on January 15, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Best Ed Blogs for 2010

Check out the best education blogs for 2010 according to "The Answer Sheet" published by The Washington Post.

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on January 15, 2010 at 12:36pm — No Comments

Bb Exemplary Course Program

The Blackboard Exemplary Course Program was created to identify and disseminate best practices for designing engaging online courses. With the Blackboard Exemplary Course rubric, instructors and course designers can evaluate how well their own course matches best practices for design, communication, engagement, assessment and learner support.



Nominations for the Blackboard Catalyst Awards for Exemplary Courses for 2010 are now open.… Continue

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on January 4, 2010 at 3:32pm — No Comments

New Help Resources

The blendedschools.net Help Desk now has a searchable knowledge base stocked with helpful how to videos.

Added by Jed Friedrichsen on January 4, 2010 at 9:33am — No Comments

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