Storytelling & Cultures
You are invited to view 39 past Storytelling & Cultures video recordings made at the live online sessions on WiZiQ.
A favorite Story: The Buddhist monk carrying a woman?
Two Buddhist monks were walking to a temple. When they got to the stream, a woman was there dressed in fine clothes. She was going to a wedding, but didn’t want to get wet crossing the creek. The oldest monk offered to carry her across, which she accepted, and then they continued on their respective journeys. Twenty minutes later, the young monk broke the silence and asked the priest something that bothered him. “In our faith, we monks are not meant to touch others, yet you carried that woman across the creek back there. I don’t understand. It has been bothering me.” The old monk stopped and looked puzzled for a moment, and then said, “Oh, her? I put her down when we got to the other side of the river. Are you still carrying her?”
Healthy Living
Mental and physical exercise promote healthy living. This learning environment will focus on healthy living that includes sports, nutrition, and fun activities.
Learning English Online (LEO)
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Learning English Online: Reading Comprehension
Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL)
IT4ALL is a non-profit organization run by a team of educators who are passionate about instruction and learning. IT4ALL provides virtual learning environments and community portals. The project began by Nellie Deutsch (Ed/CI) as a personal initiative with the name “Integrating Technology” in December 2005 with a simple Moodle that now has over 2000 users. In 2010 IT4ALL expanded and now includes a global social network, a “mediawiki”, a conference VLE, an e-portfolio social network, and a MoodleMoot. IT4ALL community was created by educators for educators and learners worldwide.
June 25, 2010
June 11, 2010
Connecting Online – CO11
Welcome to the annual connecting online live online conference (CO11). You are cordially invited to participate at the live online conference on the weekend of Feb 4-6 2011.
Connecting Online is virtual learning environment organized by Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL). IT4ALL is a non-profit organization run by a team of educators who are passionate about instruction and learning. IT4ALL provides virtual learning environments and community portals. The project began by Nellie Deutsch (Ed/CI) as a personal initiative with the name “Integrating Technology” in December 2005 with a simple Moodle that now has over 2000 users. In 2010 IT4ALL expanded and now includes a global social network, a “mediawiki”, a conference VLE, an e-portfolio social network, and a MoodleMoot. IT4ALL community was created by educators for educators and learners worldwide.
The conference will be of interest to educators, administrators, students, and community members who value the importance of integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction and learning. Online learning involves various skills on the part of the instructor and learner. These include social and communication skills, social networking, independent learning strategies, critical and higher order thinking skills, creativity, and effective online and face-to-face facilitation. In addition, there are may challenges that the educators, administrators, students, and community members face.
The CO11 will be conducted on this website and WiZiQ.
The themes for CO11 presentations are:
- Connecting Online to Improve Instruction and Learning: Online Learning and Instructional Experience
- Experiences with technology in face-to-face and online classes. What worked and what didn’t work for you?
- How do you use technology to promote and sustain your online workshops, consultation, and communities of practice and learning?
- Research conducted on e-learning, blended online learning, and blended learning.
- Reviewing or promoting books on integrating technology into the classroom, e-learning, blended learning, and blended online learning.
- Challenges administrators, instructors, students, and community members face in connecting online.
The live online presentations include a 40 minute talk and 10 minutes for questions. Each presenter is accompanied by one or two moderators who introduce him or her and provide support.
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Moodle for Teachers (M4T)
Moodle for Teachers (M4T) for beginners, intermediate, and advanced Moodlers.
Research
Instructor Experiences with Implementing Technology in Blended Learning Courses
Abstract of a Doctoral Research Study
Organizational leaders in institutions of higher education expect instructors to implement blended learning courses without understanding instructor experiences with technology. Requiring faculty to teach blended learning courses without fully understanding the experiences instructors had implementing technology may lead to developing inappropriate professional training programs, ineffective use of technology, or to instructor disuse of technology in the future. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological research study was to explore the experiences instructors had implementing technology in blended learning courses in campus-based institutions of higher education worldwide. This qualitative phenomenological research study used a modified van Kaam method by Moustakas (1994) with in-depth, semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences instructors had implementing technology in blended learning courses. The analysis of the transcribed interviews revealed four themes: (a) facilitates instruction and learning, (b) frustrating, (c) satisfying and rewarding, and (d) socially connecting. The conclusions derived from the study suggest that learning about the experiences instructors had implementing technology in blended learning courses may guide educational leaders in providing support and in preparing professional development workshops on how to teach blended learning courses.
