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Creating a Virtual School
• Drawing board to Implementation
Creating a Virtual School
• Creating a philosophy – INACOL, IBM, Florida v Concord Consortium, District game players and naysayers
Creating a Virtual School
1. Consultants2. Leadership of District/University3. Technical Staff Leader4. Professional Development
Department Reps5. Curriculum Department Reps6. Teacher Leaders7. Counselors8. Community Leader9. Parent/Student
Leadership• Leadership needs to meet and discuss:
– What is your philosophy concerning online education and professional development?
– Is your district/university willing to commit to doing synchronous and asynchronous online education?
– Develop a needs assessment?– Create a strategic plan.
• Analyze resources available• Develop partnerships• Marketing strategies
What is your philosophy concerning online education?
• Learning
• Training
• Meetings
• Format
– Concurrent
– Full-time/degree granting
Confirm Your Philosophy
Your Vision
The best technology is integrated with the best instructional practices.
A dynamic environment is created to foster continuous social, emotional and intellectual growth.
Confirm Your Commitment
Is your district/university willing to commit to doing synchronous and asynchronous online education?
• Flexibility of scheduling• Technical assistance • Connectivity issues• Additional training• Quality vs. quantity
Identify Your Needs
• Geographic issues
• Classroom issues
• Technical staff
• Professional
Development needs
• Administrative
needs
Southern NevadaClark County School District Clark County School District
covers 7,910 sq. milescovers 7,910 sq. miles
Lincoln
Clark
1996 2005 Growth
Students 178,896 280,834 57%
Teachers 11,316 18,953 34%
Schools 194 301 55%
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Identify Your UsersDistrict
Admin
Teachers
Students
Support Staff
ProfessionalTechnical
Identify Your Needs
Create a strategic plan.• Analyze resources available• Develop partnerships• Create a business plan• Set goals• Identify leadership structure
for program
• Growth
• Money issues
• Marketing
• State Requirements. . . Attendance
• The need to rewrite regulations and rules
Be prepared for :
Before Starting
• How do you get ready for everything that is going to happen?
– Organize training– Organize technical
infrastructure– Identify initial target groups
Key Elements Needed• Organize training: Create your own or outsource
– Process for Course Creation and Review– Pedagogy Training
• Design Team– Curriculum Specialists– Teacher– Instructional Designer– Administrator
– Tools/Technical Training for Teachers– Classroom Environment
Organize Technical Infrastructure
• Create a Technical staff– Networking Staff– Help Desk
1.Tech Staff Collaboration
2.Server Requirements
3.Tech Support Needed for Students and Staff
4.Tech Requirement for Student and Teacher Computers
5.Minimum Bandwidth vs Optimal Teaching Requirements
6.Develop a liability waiver for adding software to computer
7.Consider a time and place for participants to bring in their computers
Technical staff collaboration
Networking Staff
• Server, Firewalls, Connection Speed• Unforeseen tech issues• Administrating the Program• Domain management• Create relationship with Help Desk and your
tech people• Develop efficient way for users to
communicate issues to tech staff• Upgrades. . . Microsoft• School connectivity
Help Desk
• Create your own Help Desk• Home connectivity issues• Unforeseen tech issues• Initial installs• Upgrades. . . Microsoft• Browser Issues
1.Administrative Issues• Scheduling Time for Classes• Number of licenses
2.Organization• Domains for each subject area• Groups within the Domains• Create a Users group Support Area
3.Scheduling calendar4.Support documents5.Sharing Ideas
Administrative Issues
What happens if you don’t develop an efficient and functional Technical staff
• Lose school. . .
• Lose students
• Lose teacher
• Lose credibility
TeacherPhilosophy is criticalDeliveryCreation of content
Administrative and Departmental Needs ie. Meetings
DeliverAttend
System Management Training
Teacher Training and Professional Development
• Decision about training• Outsource or create your own• Need for flexibility
•How to use tools to deliver training• Definite plan for delivery if giving your own
Teacher Training and Professional Development
Time for implementation
• 6 months to a year to develop• Tap resources that are already there• Consider purchasing courses from other sources
• Train groups
Teacher Training and Professional Development
Needs. . .
1. Content needs to be set by a team, not an individual• Teachers need to be aware of team effort to
deliver • Standards-based content• Procedure in place for changes to content
Needs. . .
1.Teachers will like Synchronous contact because it is most like a classroom• Need to be trained on the proper use• Synchronous class needs to be interactive• Need to hire teachers and Administrators with
same philosophy2. Need for personal touch. . . 3. Teachers come in from
1.Access to content for synchronous and asynchronous learning materials
2.Active Discussions groups3.Model the shared environment4.Rubrics are essential 5.Share lessons- teacher notes, all files6.Create an interactive environment-If you want to
do a lecture, use the Playback in synchronous tool
7.Rely on an experienced staff to model best practices
Essential Elements of Training
The Emerging CyberSchool
– Need for interactivity– Teachers– Students– Online Professional
Development• Growth• Technical Infrastructure
Valuable lessons along the way