Connecting Online 2010 - Sarah Stewart Public Class

Friday, February 05 2010 | 4:00 PM (EST)

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Connecting Online 2010
Feb 5-7


Welcome to CO10 the annual live online conference. 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.

The Conference will be conducted on IT4ALL Moodle course: http://www.integrating-technology.com/course/view.php?id=89 (enrollment key is CO10 ) and WiZiQ.

About the Presenter:
Sarah Stewart


Sarah StewartSarah is an educator, online facilitator and midwife. Sarah currently works in the Educational Development Centre at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand and is an eLearning consultant. Her current project is organising and facilitating the 24 hour Virtual International Day of the Midwife 5 May 2010. Sarah can be contacted via her blog: http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com .

Title of presentation:
Working out the difference between online teaching and facilitation

Description of presentation:
Facilitated education is considered to be an effective way of learning, especially in the online environment. But can a teacher be a true facilitator when she/he also has to assess students? In this presentation Sarah will describe her experiences of facilitating and assessing the course "Facilitating Online" (http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Facilitating_Online) and open up the discussion on how to deal with the tensions between teaching and facilitation in the online environment.

Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning

Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning

Language of instruction: English

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By: norbertboruett
732 days 8 hours 58 minutes ago

great very informative

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bronwyn hegarty
By: bronwyn hegarty
732 days 11 hours 40 minutes ago

hello sarah looking forward to your presentation. apologies for being late. Bron

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Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL) is a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Nellie Deutsch in 2006. IT4ALL includes a team of volunteers who are passionate about instruction and learning and promoting free e-learning around the world. The leading team at IT4ALL are: Dr. Ludmila Smirnova (professor at St. Mary's College in New York State, writer, experienced presenter and online facilitator), Dr. Nellie Deutsch (a Canadian instructional designer and curriculum development leader, who has been teaching English and integrating technology into her classes, and presenting, researching, writing, and providing consultation on Moodle for teachers. WebQuests, blended learning, and e-portfolios), Dariem Garcés (Moodle Developer, creator of the WebQuest pluggin for Moodle, and expert in installing virtual learning environments), and other educators & technology experts volunteer their time and make up Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL).

IT4ALL is a non-profit organization that provides free professional development courses on how to integrate e-learning technology into full and blended online learning (BOL) courses and workshops. Workshops on Moodle for Teachers, WebQuests, TESOL, ESOL, Integrating Technology, Web 2.0 tools, Math, English, Spanish and other subjects. The staff at IT4ALL are all volunteers who are passionate about instruction and learning and making a difference in the world of online education.

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