EDTECH597 – Poll Entry: What Should A Canadian K-12 Online Learning Professional Organization Look Like?

As I mentioned yesterday (and this past Friday), late last week I participated in a Canadian K-12 Online Leaders’ Summit.  One of the discussions we had at the summit was an exploration of how to formalize this kind of group so that we could meet on a more regular basis.  While the nature of this group, what it may look like, and what it may do is still very much up in the air – although we have a good plan in place to figure that out over the next 12 months – I wanted to use this opportunity to poll my Canadian readers.

Remember, if you select other please use the comments below to describe what you had in mind.

Poll – Do You Need Training To Teach Online?

Before the holidays, a good friend Dennis O’Connor posed a question in the comments to the entry Stay In Touch? UW-Stout: E-Learning & Online Teaching.  As a way to promote that query, I decided to use the question as the January poll.  The preamble that Dennis provided read:

I recently had a teacher write me and ask if he really needed any special preparation to teach online.

He’s veteran teacher with strong tech skills.

This is a question I’d like to ask you and your audience!

As you wonder this poll question, let me point you to a blog entry by The E Teacher that is entitled “Another thing they never told me in teacher college.”

Poll: Would You Do An Online Teaching Endorsement?

For the past few months, the polls have been focusing upon the issue of online teacher training.  This month…

And feel free to leave a comment below to further illustrate your response.

EDTECH597 – Poll Entry: Retake – Should States Have Online Teaching Endorsements?

In my EDTECH597 – Week 7 entry yesterday, I indicated that I would post an entry with video in it to model for my Boise State students. Over the course of this week I’ve been working with a group of my doctoral students as we plan out a book chapter on examples from teacher education of preparation for K-12 online learning, which is actually how I thought up the question I wanted to use for this example.

I thought it was actually an original question for me, but it seems I asked a version of this question the last time I did a poll (which was back in September apparently – see Poll: Should States Have Online Teaching Endorsements?), but I only received two responses.  So I wanted to try again…

Please use the comments below to explain any reasons you have for your response.

Poll: Should States Have Online Teaching Endorsements?

As someone involved in teacher education, I’ve often wondering this question myself…

Please vote!!