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EDTE 5411- Designing K-12 Internet Instruction

(5 credits)

Course Description:

This unique course is designed for busy educators and offers maximum flexibility and personal support from Frank Odasz in a mastery learning format. Participants have one year to complete eight five-hour lessons and a ten-hour final project to receive their five quarter graded recertification credits. You may review this course by clicking  EDTE 5411  New (2008) Web 2.0 resources for this course. This course relates directly to all ISTE NETS standards and 21^st Century Literacy themes and is intended as an  Intermediate course for those who are already comfortable using the Internet in the K12 classroom. This course is designed specifically for educators seeking to motivate youth through 21^st Century Web 2.0 tools for written interaction, multimedia content creation and self-directed learning.

It is strongly recommended participants first take  EDTE 5174 “Making the Best Use of Internet Resources for K12 Instruction”

Students today are “digital natives” that is - the first digital generation. This unique self-directed hands-on course offers a step-by-step guide to 'Painless, Progressive Internet Integration' using your existing curriculum. New Web 2.0 curriculum web-authoring sites (blogs, wikis) are creating easy ways for educators to quickly create their own online curriculum with a minimum of technical skills.

Participants will experience using a robust collection of courseware authoring resources which allow them to create their own online curriculum, from single lessonplans to whole online courses. A listserv creates an ongoing forum for educators to share with each other the best curriculum-authoring resources they have found during this class.

A nationally published article on the significance of this new course is recommended reading:
Lone Eagles Learn to Teach From Any Beach,

Designing K12 Internet Instruction includes eight units to help you:

- Learn the easiest new social media Web 2.0 curriculum authoring tools, templates and how to benefit from the best
   Edu-blogs and Edu-wikis and more.
- Explore the progressive steps for classroom integration of specific Internet curriculum, course models, and authoring templates
- Address key online curriculum design issues for K12 classrooms
- Learn the unique advantages of online instruction and the appropriate applications for online learning.
- Participate in a peer listserv for convenient sharing the best new resources for specific grade levels and content areas
- Review top online curriculum models, online course directory sites and create a project-based short term unit
- Learn about innovation diffusion, change theory, and the impact of online instruction on traditional educational roles.
- Review key issues concerning marketing your online curriculum; copyright issues, intellectual freedom, promotion
   and self-employment

Lone Eagle Consulting specializes in rural, remote and indigenous Internet training. This is your opportunity to benefit from Frank Odasz's broad experience, and his current 'cutting-edge' knowledge, obtained from his extensive travel and diverse involvement with training teachers. New (2008) Web 2.0 resources.

You can conveniently page through dozens of Frank’s online publications by going to http://searchme.com and entering “Frank Odasz” and selecting “search all”  Add Alaska, or Native, K12, or Rural, or any combination to see specific resources. All Frank's resources, courses, articles, speaking services, resume, and published history are accessible at: http://lone-eagles.com, Send any questions you might have to Email: frank@lone-eagles.com. Or just call: Ph/Fax: 406-683-6270.

Instructor Biographical Information: Lone Eagle Consulting, Dillon, Montana

Frank Odasz has a passion for personal mastery learning online support of busy educators. Frank has been teaching teachers online since 1988. presented dozens of times for classrooms of all grade levels Frank appreciates the challenges and opportunities associated with motivating the first digital generation.

Frank has been enjoying teaching online courses for SPU for the past eight years. Frank served as a faculty for 13 years at the University of Montana, Western in Dillon, Montana, before becoming Lone Eagle Consulting, specializing in teaching online (from a remote ranchhouse in Montana.) From 1988 to 1998, he was director of the well-known Big Sky Telegraph network, providing on-line courses to rural teachers. Frank's work has been recognized for excellence by four congressional reports, the White House, and dozens of books and publications. New (2008) Web 2.0 resources.