Abstract
Presentation Abstract: Teacher educators are required by accreditation standards to provide field experiences for their students in diverse settings in order to prepare them for the realities of todays K-12 schools. This presents a challenge however for masters students who are working fulltime jobs or cannot easily commute outside of certain geographic areas. As a solution in our Learning Technologies masters program, we used online distant learning technologies for our students to mentor teachers in Namibia and develop a WebQuest for use in their classrooms. Our expectation was to use the Blackboard system and have NJ-Namibian partners communicate via discussion forums and to use a wiki for the actual WebQuest development. Shortly after beginning however, this became unworkable and an alternative solution, using email to exchange tech-integrated lesson plans (as word documents), was adopted. By the end of the semester, NJ students were clearly aware of the digital divide and the need to be flexible when delivering online instruction, but were all success in helping their Namibian partners become more familiar with ways of using technologies in education. In this presentation we discuss our original plan, what went wrong, how we worked around it, and how others can do something similar. ... Technology: Blackboard, wiki, email, WebQuest, Word ... Delivery Method: Online, asychronous distance learning/collaboration
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10th annual faculty best practices showcase
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00:17:53 (HH:MM:SS)
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English
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