Karen+Budde

Here's the link to my blog.

My ratonale for creating this board presentation was to provide the school board members with some information and then to release the presentation to the general community in order for the discussion about what the educational delivery system for next year might look like. There are no prerequisites other than the ability to use a computer and an awareness that the school has a Facebook page. An earlier post on our school's announcements' page and the link on our school's web site took care of the Facebook issue.

Here's a link to my Google document that evolved from earlier brainstorming!

Here's the Google presentation that I used with the school board. Please turn the speaker notes on. Here's the audio for the presentation. It under audio on the navigation side bar.

I received two nice emails and many verbal "good jobs". I was grateful that the presentation went well and was well received.

Here's an outline - rough sketch of my mini-lesson School Board - presentation - technology and independent studies as viable alternatives to traditional educational delivery system. Cognitivist slides on the data, explanations, survey responses, etc. Behaviorist demonstration on online class explanation. Hopefully this is the stimulus to get the school board's response to expanding these non-traditional educational delivery system. Constructivist comments on Facebook to allow the all community members to reflect and then share their ideas.

Learning Objectives: Board members will be able to: • Articulate the term online class. • Calculate the cost differentials between online supported versus traditional delivery to a few students. Some classes at Danville have five or fewer students. • Explore the benefits and risks of adding online classes to the program.

The school board's final reflection will be soon as they complete work on the budget. Hopefully the school board will see how beneficial the programs are and fund them.

I liked - was it Asha's? - displaying data because it got me thinking about adding a TEDtalk/Edutopia/youtube video about the changing nature of learning in schools. I also thought about the VSBA and this resource. The Columbian Exchange wiki reminded me that I need some prerequisites. Knowledge and experience that the school board or any school board might need before seeing my presentation would be none. Here's an interview that I finished with a student about his online class. It was not possible to share the video outside the school's server, but here's a jpeg of it! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Danville-School/168452646555088