ORVSD Community Forum
Welcome to the ORVSD Community Forum
This forum is an ORVSD umbrella group for supporting and discussing the various uses of ORVSD in educational settings. In order to participate in this group you must be a registered (created username, password and supplied valid email) member of ORVSD.
So if you:
- Have exciting new information or links that would benefit the ORVSD community. Tell us about it!
- Have a question on setting up a course/ resource for your school? Ask it here!
- Want to write up a classroom technology use case or a recipe of a course/eportfolio you have built, and want to highlight?
- Need help? Maybe a community member can help. Ask it here!
- Need to survey something before you post it to your region/district? Survey here!
Bottom line: If you want to chat, share, ask questions and/or just get help regarding ORVSD. This is the place!
Result Summaries the State Board's Online Learning Surveys
We prepared surveys for the different interest groups.
2008 Keeping Pace Report
Below is the link to the 2008 Keeping Pace Report. Keeping Pace surveys all the states on all types of virtual learning.
State Board of Education Online Learning Survey
The State Board of Education is conducting a survey of online education opinions, and your response would be appreciated.
How would you rate your experience at Outdoor School?
10 - It was fantasitc!
100% (2 votes)
7 - I was good, but I have reservations.
0% (0 votes)
5 - I was not satisfied.
0% (0 votes)
3 - This was a bad experience for me.
0% (0 votes)
1 - I hated it and will be scarred for life.
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 2
Outdoor School Survey
Please fill out this survey to give us feedback on Outdoor School and the training we provided. We also want you to know how great you were at Outdoor School
Try "What if Uping" ORVSD?
I know this is a different approach but sometimes we need to change our perception so we can see the many possiblities!
School policies for online classes
Astoria School District is in the beginning stages of adding online courses to our curriculum. As an administrative team we have had numerous discussions concerning online policies for students and
Policies for online classes
Astoria School District is in the beginning stages of offering online courses for our MS and HS students. We are having discussions and trying to work out policies for our students and staff that pe
29 new Course Templates on ORVSD
Greg has now loaded the 29 course templates purchased from SK online for everyone's use. They can be found in the course creation drop down.
Business sees Online K12 Education as Huge Market
Here are links to two articles in the
Come see us at OSCON!
The OSU Open Source Lab will be exhibiting in the expo hall at OSCON this year.
AP Literature and Composition Entry 1
This is the huge assignment that you have to accomplish now.
AP Literature and Composition Entry 1
This is the huge assignment that you have to accomplish now.
Many of you have expressed a need for Moodle Tutorials. Please look at this Two Minute Moodle Model.
I can't take credit for finding this, so we all must thank Skip Offenhauser! What a clear and concise step by step set of short turtorials that walk through Moodle.
NROC Professional Development Resources
NROC has a variety of Teaching Resources for your use. Our Lease grants you access.
Web 2.0 and Education
Excerpted from
Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools
How Much Is Enough?
We teach you that Energy + Vision = Success, but when does Success = Excess? That's what Affluenza is all about.
Resources, Resources: You said you want resources!
We had Kathy at ITSC. What a great site for all kinds of resources K-12. Make sure you check this out:
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/assess.html
Cool A/V Slideshow
Check out www.vuvox.com
It'll create a slideshow with pictures, audio, and video content that you can then put on your page.
Free mind mapping software
This is an interesting tool:
Technology-rich classrooms and textbooks
While I think the title is overblown and not really accurate, this is an interesting post via the AP and Teacher Magazine:
Article about some of the pitfalls when using online tools
This is another article from the higher education environment, but it does bring up some issues relevant in a K-12 environment:
Free textbooks?
This is an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: An Online Company Tries an Unexpected Publishing Model: Free Textbooks
Battle of the Books
By now you should have read several of the Battle books. Which of the books were the most interesting for you?
Pick a book from the list.
Make images come alive in the classroom: slideshows or a visual research resource
I think this is one of the most visually interesting tools I have been shown all year! Only exception being ORVSD :)
Success Stories
I would like to read any success stories anyone would care to share on their use of ORVSD resources.
On a Bloom role today!
Another great site full of resources on Bloom's taxonomy:
Neat Wiki for teachers (Bloom's Taxonomy with Excellent Rubrics for Digital Assessments)
Might want to explore this wiki! Interesting resources: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/
New E-Portfolio Feature: Institutions
We've upgraded the Mahara e-portfolio server!
Child Abuse Prevention Training on ORVSD
Child Abuse Prevention Training Course
Welcome ORVSD Grant Folks
Spring break is over so I thought I would send you all a little announcement via our ORVSD Community Forum. To begin I would like to thank you for attending the training prior to Spring Break. It was really nice to put a face to the email.
