Studywiz Spark 2008 Conference at Sunday River

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Other Summer 2008 PD Opportunities in Maine at LIM Resources Wiki (please add to the list).

Online Learning at WDL

This week's focus at Wicked Decent Learning is Online Learning.

How has online learning worked out for you? What suggestions do you have?

Related Maine Podcast: Bit by Bit Show #30 with Kern Kelley, Alice Barr, Cheryl Oakes and Bob Sprankle.

Related Resources: Online Classroom Environments

Online Classroom Environments

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them."

Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Economy, 1854

Online places to collaborate and set up virtual learning spaces are proliferating. Here in Maine we have the Maine Virtual Learning Project (Moodle), Studywiz, and a neat kind of hybrid called Noteshare. There are also a variety of spaces on the Web that provide varying degrees of digital interaction. Add to that a number of blog and wiki sites, and it's an interesting dilemma on the best choice to fit a particular teacher's needs.

Beside ease-of-use and a respect for a teacher's limited time and varying needs, questions of accessibility and security abound. How open can we keep our spaces and still provide appropriate decorum and insure student safety?

Thoughts? Recommendations? Wisdom?