K-12 ONLINE LEARNERS TREASURE CHEST OF SUCCESS:

TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

Tereasa Jones, MSIDTJune 7, 2015

What will you learn?

In this lesson:Students will learn ONLINE TECHNOLOGY TOOLS.

Throughout this lesson you will see GOLD COINS FOR EVERYTHING YOU

LEARN!

COLLECT THE GOLD COINS.

SEE WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED BYTHE END OF THIS MODULE!

Course Managem

ent System (CMS)

Online Discuss

ion Board

Electronic

Lockbox

Search Engines

Instructional

Media

Microsoft

Basics

TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

Course Management System (The Online Course)

Online/distance education courses are courses that are designed online, implemented online and are most commonly located on a “course management system” or “CMS”.

Course management systems are “virtual learning environments” (Simonson, Smaldino, Albright, & Zvacek, 2012, p. 183).

The CMS for this course is generated by CourseSites by Blackboard and can be accessed via https://tereasaj.coursesites.com (and entering your login credentials).

YOU ENTER THE COURSE HERE

In the Class: COURSE LOGIN

Course Discussions

“Instructors post questions related to reading, viewing, and/or listening to assignments, then students post comments in a discussion area” (Simonson, Smaldino, Albright, & Zvacek, 2015).

Course Discussions

Course discussions allow students to:Share ideas with students and

instructorsComplete assignmentsMeet course requirements

Sharing

In the Class: Course Discussion Board

Online Class Assignments 101

Online Class Assignments are: Requirements Located within the Course (usually

found under the week’s Course Content)

Submitted Online through an Electronic Dropbox

In the Class: Online Class Assignments

THE

ELECTRONI

C DROPBOX

YOU WILL SUBMIT ASSIGNMENTS

HERE!

Search engines are used to search the internet.

The internet has web pages created by people and companies from around the world, making it location to find all kinds of information. (Internet Tips, 2014). Additional Resources:Internet tips. (2014). Internet tips. Retrieved from http://www.computerhope.com/tips/internet.htm

Search Engines

Google: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/134479?hl=en

Bing: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Bing-Search-Engine

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95655?hl=en

Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-bar-easily-choose-your-search-engine

Common Search Engines

In the Class: SEARCH BARS

Instructional media are:“Ways that messages are stored”Created using verbal symbols, visual symbols, pictures, motion pictures, real-time video, and recorded video

(Simonson, Smaldino, Albright, & Zvacek, 2015).

Instructional Media

In online courses, presentations and recorded videos that incorporate words, pictures, and video, will be used to guide you in the use of class resources and online technology tools.

Instructional Media

In the Class: COURSE MEDIA

Microsoft is often the chosen tool to create documents, charts, tables, etc. for class.

Commonly used Microsoft Products include:Microsoft Word-documents, graphics, charts, tablesPowerPoint- presentationsExcel- spreadsheets

Microsoft Basics

In the Class: MICROSOFT BASICS

There is a wealth of information on using Microsoft Products on the

Microsoft website at:

http://windows.microsoft.com

TIME FOR REVIEW

DID YOU COLLECT THE GOLD COINS FOR EVERYTHING

YOU LEARNED?

WHAT DID YOU

LEARN?

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT

TECHNOLOGY TOOLS?

TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

Course Managem

ent System (CMS)

Online Discuss

ion Board

Electronic

Lockbox

Search Engines

Instructional

Media

Microsoft

Basics

References• CourseSites by Blackboard. Quick Start Guide. CourseSites Quick

Start Guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9h0MofLWx4HQmFrZzRxVDluQVk/edit?usp=sharing

• Simonson, M., Smaldino, S., Albright, M., & Zvacek, S. (2012). Teaching and learning at a distance: Foundations of distance education (5th ed.) Boston, MA: Pearson.

• Simonson, M., Smaldino, S., & Zvacek, S. (2015). Teaching and learning at a distance: Foundations of distance education (6th ed.) Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.

• Images-Microsoft Creative Commons, 2015.

References

• Catalano, F. (2013). 5 Online Discussion Tips For Students - Edudemic. Edudemic. Retrieved from http://www.edudemic.com/5-online-discussion-tips-for-students/

• Internet tips. (2014). Internet tips. Retrieved from http://www.computerhope.com/tips/internet.htm

• Google: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/134479?hl=en

• Bing: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Bing-Search-Engine

• Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95655?hl=en

• Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-bar-easily-choose-your-search-engine

Created by: Tereasa Jones, MSIDT

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNJUNE 7, 2015