Are you considering taking some or all of your courses on-line? Good for you!
Two key advantages of online learning are flexibility and convenience.
Make sure you're ready to succeed. E-learning can sound so wonderful and in reality, online courses require just as much, if not more, time and effort as traditional classroom courses. It also requires specific computer skills and learning strategies in order to succeed.
Unlike a traditional learning environment, where students and teachers are
You will learn about the ways in which e-learning is different from the traditional environment most students are accustomed to. Along the way, you'll also discover how similar, familiar and comfortable on-line learning can be. Because students and teachers aren't bound by the same space or time, there is significant convenience and flexibility offered to learners.
What is a Learning Management
A Learning Management System is a collection of tools that function together as the complete learning environment.
Moodle is your Learning Management System for this course. It becomes your classroom, your tutorials and your study hall as well as a place to find descriptions of your assignments and activities. Moodle enables interaction with course materials, other students and your teachers.
On-line learning will require you, the student, to take more control of your own learning environment. To do that, a bit of self knowledge is needed and that is what this section is about.
Once you have some insight to how you learn, it is time to take a closer look at the skills and strategies that will help you be successful learning in the on-line environment.
You can print this checklist out to remind yourself of the important skills and abilities that help you be successful in on-line learning.
Here is a simple template for you to use to create your weekly plans for you courses. Have fun!
How does Digital Citizenship affect you?
| Animation Tools
| Photo Stories
| Presentation Tools
| Other
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| Go! Animate- choose characters, setting, and music. Can include your own images voice | Photo Story 3 - quick 2 minute download- you can upload your own images, and use your own voice to narrate | Prezi - Zooming presentation tool where you can embed video, web links, documents, images and text | Podcast - can be used to create your voice, music, singing or newscast. (Need to download Audacity as well as Lame mp3 Decorder) |
| Xtranormal-created animated scenes using text to speech | Animoto- upload your own images and use music and themes to create a visual story | Voice Thread- upload PDF documents or images, commentary with your own voice and format allows for others to comment or collaborate as well | Mindomo or Blubblus- create a visual mind map to organize ideas or concepts |
| Toon Doo- Create digital comics | Big Huge Labs- create a visual collage or digital magazine cover | Glogster- digital poster where images, links, video can be embedded | Blogger or Word Press- create a blog that contains information required including images and text |
| Voki- use text to speech or your own voice to tell your story | Capzules- create multimedia timeline to tell story | PB Works Wiki or Wikispaces- can be used to house your project or your work can be created directly inside | Any other appropriate tool |
| Kerpoof- animated storytelling | Mixbook- digital scrap-booking- can share with a link at no fee | SMART Notebook (if loaded on your own computer) or Notebook Express (to get simplified version via web without needing to download) | |
| Make Beliefs Comix- create a digital comic strip |
