Course Prototype: The Big Reveal

TA-DA! Language Productions, Inc. Creating this course prototype was certainly a valuable learning experience; throughout these last 3.5 weeks, it was beneficial to sit down and reflect in regards to how to design an online course that facilitates student success. So often, when we are in the midst of the busy academic school year, there …

Embedding Collaborative Opportunities Within An Online Asynchronous Class

To recap, my course module is an online asynchronous treaty education mini unit under the overall umbrella of History 30. For this course, a goal of mine is to create collaborative learning opportunities for students. Indeed, asynchronous courses provide their own challenges; although they give students ample flexibility to work through the course at their …

Accessibility in Education: We Need To Do More

Education is one of the great equalizers. Although I know it is overly simplistic to say this (check out this link for a more in-depth analysis as to why) and that there are a myriad of other factors that impact the quality of one's education, I do believe that education has the potential to change …

Using Lumi: Enhancing an Online & Asynchronous Course

To refresh everyone, I am creating a Grade 12 treaty education module within my overall History 30 unit. There is much similarity between these two "courses" and so combining them is a pretty seamless endeavour. However, in the process of covering the treaty education outcomes, I have to be cognizant that although the outcomes are …

Course Profile for History 30 & Treaty Ed. 12 Outcomes

Photo by Social Soup Social Media on Pexels.com Course Overview This is a History 30 course that encompasses three SK Treaty Education outcomes (TR12, SI12, TPP12). The SK Treaty Education outcomes that I have chosen fit in seamlessly with the History 30 theme of Canadian history. In total, the treaty education module will take approximately …

History 30 & Online Learning: To Infinity and Beyond!

As previously mentioned, I am going to be an online teacher for DLC (Distance Learning Corporation) for the 2023-2024 school year. Therefore, I am going to be tasked with creating online courses for students in my region (I will be working out of the Moose Jaw Campus). DLC was created to provide small schools, in …

Confessions of an Online Teacher: Just Keep Swimmin’

For the last two academic school years, I have been an online teacher at Cyber Stone Virtual School for South East Corner Stone School Division. Now, heading into the 2023-2024 academic school year, there will be a new provincially-run online school division called Distance Learning Corporation (DLC). I will be continuing my online teaching journey …