Presentation Panel
John Stritt, Grant Director - jstritt@esu10.org
Lee Brogie, Wayne Public Schools -lbrogie@esu1.org
Deb Hanslip, Westside Community Schools - dhanslip@westside66.org
Sharon Van Cleave, Laurel-Concord Public Schools - scleave@esu1.org
Nancy Stritt, Kearney Public Schools - nstritt@esu10.org
Mark McMahon, Lead Teacher ESU 4- mmcmahon@esu4.org
Project History -John Stritt
Project Goal: To evaluate the feasibility of the use of course management technology at the K-12 grade levels and to foster the development of collaborative partnerships between higher education/community college faculty, ESU staff, and K-12 instructors.Educational outcomes to be measured included:
- creation of a digital curriculum base
- time efficiencies in support of teacher resources
- improvement of teacher-student communication
- improvement of parent-teacher communication
- improvement in tracking student performance
Participant Demographics:
- Goal of 50 teachers
- Project started with 35 teachers and 30 teachers completed the project
- Participants from
- ESU 1
- ESU 4
- Tri-Valley Distance Education Consortium - ESU 7, 10, 11
- ESU 18 - Lincoln Public Schools
- Westside Community Schools
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln
- University of Nebraska - Kearney
- Peru State College
- Wayne State College
Participant preparation and responsibilities
- Participate in summer training
- Participate in quarterly meetings and quarterly discussion boards
- Develop a digital presence for a class (es)
Panel members - eLearning Project Overview(Nancy, Lee, Sharon, Deb)
Panel Questions:
1. What is your curriculum area and background with course management programs.2. What were the primary CMS tools that you used in support of your instruction? Which ones proved successful and which ones did not?
3. How did students react to using CMS as part of their class?
a) What activities were created that got students to interact more with course content?
b) Did you feel that student learning was improved, stayed the same, or went down?
c) What parts of CMS did students like, dislike?4. Other questions::
a) What challenges have you faced when trying to use CMS?
b) Did you save any time, money, etc. as a result of using CMS?
c) Are any of your colleagues interested in using CMS?5. Comments from other participants - http://tvdec.k12.ne.us/grant/elearningdb.htm
"What happens next to eLearning" Mark McMahon
NSWDAC is offering Blackboard on a per year license to schools interested in participating. http://www.nwsdac.org/nwsdac/index.cfm?act=fullstory&type=1&id=167&bid=37