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This is a project from Becca Litwin who teaches middle school English at Delaware Valley Friends School. For questions about her process and experience moving a course online or training staff and students on Google Drive you can reach out to her at becca.litwin@dvfriends.org. You can watch her presentation at this link near the 7:58 timestamp.
This is a project from Becca Litwin who teaches middle school English at Delaware Valley Friends School. For questions about her process and experience moving a course online or training staff and students on Google Drive you can reach out to her at becca.litwin@dvfriends.org. You can watch her presentation at this link near the 7:58 timestamp.
From Becca:
From Becca:
"For my project, I wanted to explore what online learning looked like, and in March, this ended up being even more helpful than I could have planned. My interest in this started because when I was in college, we had some online aspects of our courses and some fully online courses. My experience was that, as students, we were reading something and posting to a message board. In my opinion, it was not an engaging or effective way to learn. I’d heard a lot about online learning in the last few years, and when I learned about the Virtual Learning Institute, I was excited to learn about how online learning had advanced. Adam, Darren, and Nooha walked me through some of the ways that they structured online learning at YSC, and I put together a writing course through my school’s LMS program, PowerSchool Learning. I launched this course with a few of my advanced kids, but there were a lot of snags and areas that needed improvement. It was difficult for them to navigate the course, and I didn’t have time to teach them how to do this. I’ve learned that teaching the tech is key to success. After my school went virtual in March, I continued to learn about the best ways to create online learning courses. This summer, I revamped my creative writing course, and I plan to roll it out to all of my English classes in the fall."
"For my project, I wanted to explore what online learning looked like, and in March, this ended up being even more helpful than I could have planned. My interest in this started because when I was in college, we had some online aspects of our courses and some fully online courses. My experience was that, as students, we were reading something and posting to a message board. In my opinion, it was not an engaging or effective way to learn. I’d heard a lot about online learning in the last few years, and when I learned about the Virtual Learning Institute, I was excited to learn about how online learning had advanced. Adam, Darren, and Nooha walked me through some of the ways that they structured online learning at YSC, and I put together a writing course through my school’s LMS program, PowerSchool Learning. I launched this course with a few of my advanced kids, but there were a lot of snags and areas that needed improvement. It was difficult for them to navigate the course, and I didn’t have time to teach them how to do this. I’ve learned that teaching the tech is key to success. After my school went virtual in March, I continued to learn about the best ways to create online learning courses. This summer, I revamped my creative writing course, and I plan to roll it out to all of my English classes in the fall."
Please find Becca's presentation slides above. The recording of her discussion starts near 7:10 and can be found at this link.
Please find Becca's presentation slides above. The recording of her discussion starts near 7:10 and can be found at this link.
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