MTDA Connect Credit Recovery Program (Featuring API

Integration)PLATO EdTech 2011Ryan Schrenk, Ed. D.

Montana Digital Academy

Let’s start with my new friends at PLATO and Ed Tech

Yesterday was my birthday…so…

What We’ll Talk about today

Birthday cheesecake with new friends last night…

How about tech support and our primary support person?

What We’ll Really Talk about today

Thanks Jeremy!

About MTDA About MTDA Connect

Plus short video from local facilitator Technology Tips Setting up PLE PLE Tweaks and Changes API integration and Single Sign On Q & A and/or Show and Tell…you choose

Just kidding…Here’s the real Summary

MTDA Connect – Brief History

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MTDA Connect – Brief History

• Montana• 630 miles x 255

miles• 147,000 square

miles• 1 million people• Hundreds of Schools• MTDA=border to

boarder

• MTDA Started in 2009• Classes – Fall 2009• Ryan hired – Dec. 2010• Connect Launch – Feb

2011

Realities of Education in Montana

Students enroll

through the local district

and NOT directly with

MTDA

Local schools retain large amount of

local control

All teachers are

employed through

public school districts and not directly from MTDA

Teachers subject to

local bargaining

unit and local expectations

Unique Relationships and Partners(everyone believes in and supports us and we like that) :-)

MEA-MFT

Montana School Boards

Association

School Administrato

rs of Montana

Montana Rural

Education Association

Montana University

System

Serve K12 Students in Montana through Public Schools Governing Board Director (CEO) Curriculum Director (Vice CEO) Montana licensed teachers Core subjects, dual credit enrichment

MTDA Founded in 2009 Legislature

Montana’s Statewide Digital Academy Serve over 170 Districts Original Credit Fall 2010 Customers wanted flexible alternative Piloted Connect Credit Recovery/Hired Ryan December

Full roll-out Feb 2011 Using Global Language Library this Fall (700-800 enr.) Piloting Middle School Language Sampler this Fall (120) 4 Staff Members

About MTDA

PLATO PLE + MTDA Staff + Local Facilitator + Coach

Enrollments Fall 2010 - 62 Spring 2011 - 496 Summer 2011 – 678 Fall 2011 (as of 9/30/11) – 840 (final numbers

in January) We are learning with PLATO how to best

utilize licenses for our model of delivery

Connect Model

Q and A from an MTDA Site Facilitator 8 mins. (recorded by Jason/edited by Ryan using Video

Pad) Tell us about MTDA Connect at your high school. What inspired your school to be the first to get involved? What is the most prevalent benefit? What should we change? How is the academic area coach model working? How has online credit recovery changed your school’s

approach to CR? Do you see the program growing in the future? Do you have plans for tracking students who take part?

Facilitator Input

Video Deleted to allow upload to slideshare…

Misuse of MTDA Original/True CR Model was needed

Coach + Local Facilitation + MTDA Staff team is critical

Communication Locking Mastery Tests after 2 tries Unit and Semester Post-tests locked by

coaches Estimating License Needs is Challenging Integration with SIS is needed and critical

Connect Model Lessons Learned

Branded as Connect Credit Recovery Program Created Naming Schema and

Scalable/Consistent Setup of Classes Spring 2011 Algebra 1A Big Sky

Hired Coaches Opened Registration February 1, 2011

Used manual enrollment process Emailed attachments/processed by hand Individual and group orientations

New Initiative – Configure and Customize PLE

Hierarchy Change in PLE SSO - GeniusSIS, Moodle and PLATO Learning Environment

School, parent and student portals Wikispaces tutorials

http://montanadigitalacademy.wikispaces.com/ Dropbox for board meetings and file sharing Googledocs for internal documents Gotomeeting for virtual meetings

Archives of gotowebinars on website http://montanadigitalacademy.org/schools

Ringcentral for fax-to-Email service Customized number

Technology Used and Resources for Coaches and Facilitators

Coaches Took Challenge of Refining Model Tracked Students – Show Justine or Kala’s

Google Doc Monthly Meetings – Brought Ideas for tutorials

New Initiative – Continued

Discussed Plan/Started in August (As soon as API open)

Integrated GeniusSIS and PLATO Student accounts, enrollments and classes

Assignments and Facilitators and Grades Manual Still Show Dropbox File

Demo Enroll a student in Genius/show in PLE! Questions?

New Initiative - API Integration

Assignments auto-assigned inside PLE? Grade data passed to SIS from PLE? Success Data Refine Reporting Refine and Develop Support and Orientations

Next Steps

Can do live demo or screen shots and respond to audience questions with information

Can show SSO to PLE Choose your own adventure…

Questions or Requests for Demo

Ryan Schrenk ryan.schrenk@montanadigitalacademy.org http://www.montanadigitalacademy.org Twitter: ryanschrenk Skype: ryan.schrenk Presentations:

http://www.slideshare.net/rschrenk

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