Participate Reflection

iNacol, the International Association for Online Learning, publishes Standards for Quality Online Teaching. Consider the following standards: Standard C: The online teacher plans, designs, and incorporates strategies to encourage active learning, application, interaction, participation, and collaboration in the online environment. Standard E: The online teacher models, guides, and encourages legal, ethical, and safe behavior related …

Participate 4- Digital Health

It's a lot easier to spend time looking on a screen than to spend time exercising. Between laptops at work and home, televisions, and smartphones,  a person has access to a screen all day long. In order to improve ones digital health, one must be intentional with balancing screen time with healthy habits. Some ways …

Participate 4- Digital Safety and Security

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Participate 4- Digital Rights and Responsibilities

Citizens of Digital Learning Communities, DLCs, need to agree to Acceptable Use Policies, AUP, in order to become responsible citizens. Students should be taught appropriate behavior and informed of consequences before agreeing to an Acceptable Use Policy. While filtering and blocking can be used to help protect students, ultimately students need to learn of the …

Participate 3- Digital Resources and Netiquette

Netiquette DOs and DON'Ts

Participate 3- Accessing Digital Learning Communities

My Deaf and hard of hearing students have limited access to digital learning because so many videos are not closed caption. While youtube offers automated closed captioning, the feature lacks accuracy and leads to confusion and wrong information. To eliminate this barrier and provide access, creators should include transcripts of videos or manually add captions …

Participate 2- Collecting Reputable Digital Resources

During the web walkabout I explored the resources that were shared. Some resources, such as Edmodo, I had heard about since teachers at my school currently use it. I was familiar with Discovery Education because I have used the streaming feature for educational videos. I've also used Khan Academy when tutoring students with math. Students …

Participate 1- Ideal Digital Learning Communities

Consider what would be needed to create an ideal digital learning community. What would be needed to bring such a vision to fruition? What can one do to make an existing DLC more attractive to and welcoming for students and teachers? An Ideal Digital Learning Community should allow a place for resource sharing and tutoring …

Participate 1- Joining a DLC

One of my favorite Digital Learning Communities is ASL That! I appreciate the group because the topics are relevant, the members are respectful, and the leader of the group has a good reputation. When I interact with the group I not only enhance my sign language skills, I also learn about topics that are important …

Participate 1- Character Traits

Technology brings people who have never been together, together like never before. Social media allows for us to connect in some of the most personal ways in a very impersonal manner. By removing the human element of face to face communication and instead engaging with others through a keyboard and screen; it can be easy to …