Building Learning Communities of Citizens and EducatorsLone Eagle Consulting provides uniquely effective Internet training for communitiesTwo "Fast-Track" mastery learning online courses for K-12 Educators
and educators - requiring the least time and effort, using the latest free web tools.
Specializing in rural, remote, and indigenous learners, Lone Eagle Consulting represents
over 15 years of experience innovating with online learning and community networking.
Start With
ED 567E: OR EDTE 5172:
Making the Best Use of Internet for K-12 Instruction
http://lone-eagles.com/spu1.htm
Seattle Pacific University Five Quarter Credit Version
Continue with:EDTE 5411 Designing K-12 Internet Instruction
http://lone-eagles.com/spu2.htm
Seattle Pacific University 5 Quarter Credit Version
A hands-on course on how to easily create Internet hotlists, web-tours,
lessonplans, project-based learning activities (Webquest, Cyberfair,
Thinkquest) and complete online courses using online web tools.
You're welcome to review these alternative online course sources:
K-12 Courses http://lone-eagles.com/courses.htm
Professional Development Courses http://lone-eagles.com/self.htm
Online Non-credit Self-directed 'Fast-track' Courses for Citizens
New:
A Beginner's Guide to Profiting from the
Internet
http://lone-eagles.com/ecom.htm
A shorter easier version of the online course "Rural
Ecommerce and Telework Strategies"
designed for youth in particular.
New:
Rural Ecommerce and Telework Strategies
http://lone-eagles.com/eguide.htm
Over 200 pages of resources including a ten lesson online
course on what's working
for others like you regarding rural Ecommerce and Telework
Strategies. Includes lessons
on the essential Internet skills required for Ecommerce, Telework and Self-directed Internet
Learning.
Unique Train-the-Trainer's Internet Guides
Common Ground:
A Cross-Cultural Self-Directed Learner's Internet Guide
http://lone-eagles.com/guide.htm
An instructional brokerage resource with emphasis on pointing to the best online
tutorials, and educational resources for self-directed learning and classroom teachers.
This is the text for the online course above "Making the Best Use of Internet for
K-12 Instruction." You can have this time-saving resource custom printed with YOUR DISTRICT
SCHOOL OR COMMUNITY’S NAME on the cover.
Echoes in the Electronic Wind:
A Native American Cross-cultural Internet Guide
http://lone-eagles.com/nativeguide.htm
Same resources as Common Ground, (above) with the addition of over 20 pages of
carefully reviewed Native American resources listed by topic.
Comprehensive Internet Workshops for Citizens and/or Educators
For workshop and presentation titles and descriptions -
See http://lone-eagles.com/presentations.htm
A typical educator's workshop would run from 8:30am-3:30pm
for both beginning and intermediate Internet users, modeling
the latest in
presentation technologies, covering;
- Painless Internet Integration for Existing Curricula
- How to Quickly Find the Best K12 Internet Resources
- Learning to Use Search Engines Effectively
- Emphasis on "Train-the-Trainers" methods, activities, and resources! Customized Internet Handbooks:- Utilizing existing Project-Based Learning activities and
creating your own, with emphasis on community
problem-solving- Creating K12 Online Curriculum using existing models,
templates, and online Web Tools
A popular addition to the workshops has been distribution to attendees of my 146 page K12 Internet Guide "Common Ground - A Cross-cultural Self-directed Learner's Internet Guide "with YOUR DISTRICT OR SCHOOL'S NAME on the cover. This is also the textbook for the college credit online course "Making the Best Use of Internet for K-12 Instruction." Printed preview copies available on request at no charge to you.
Preview the online version at http://lone-eagles.com/guide.htm * 1-50 handbooks: $10 each plus $2 shipping, without customized cover
$15 each plus $2 shipping with customized cover* 50 + handbooks without customized cover; $9 each plus $2 shipping
* 50 + handbooks with customized cover; $12 each plus $2 shipping
CONSULTING RATES:BIOGRAPHY:Conference Presentations and Workshops : $1500/day Travel Days : $500 per day spent traveling to/from an event Work not requiring travel : $500/day Important: All travel expenses will be in addition to the daily rates.
CONTACT:
Frank Odasz
Lone Eagle Consulting
2200 Rebich Lane
Dillon, Montana 59725
PH: 406-683-6270
Email frank@lone-eagles.com
Web: http://lone-eagles.com
Frank Odasz, originally from Cody, WY, averages over 50,000 air-miles/year presenting state-of-the-art workshops for educators. Frank served as a teacher educator for 13 years at Western Montana College of the University of Montana, in Dillon, MT. From 1988 to 1998, he was director of the well-known Big Sky Telegraph network, providing online courses to rural teachers . All Frank’s resources, courses, articles, services, and his resume are accessible at http://lone-eagles.com
Academic Resume and Biography: http://lone-eagles.com/articles/frank.htm
Lone Eagle Consulting K12 Services
After 13 years as an asst. professor at Western Montana College
of the University of Montana, a rural teachers’ college, averaging
50,000 miles per year presenting at professional conferences nationally,
I feel I have developed a unique knowledge-base.I recommend you consider a one day "Making the Best Use of Internet
for K12 Instruction" workshop, followed by the two online classes,
with myself on retainer for 6-12 months interacting with your staff via
web conferencing as mentor and resource person, to create a sustainable
peer resource support network for your district.
K12 Internet Workshops:
- Beginning Internet
- Integrating Internet into the Curriculum
- Designing Online Instruction
- School and Community Networking Synergies
- Cultural Self-empowerment Using InternetWorkshops can be supplemented with a Customized
K12 Internet Guide Handbook:
- Cover with your school district's name;
"Your District’s K12 Internet Guide"
- Printed Preview Copies Available on RequestInternet Resource Brokerage:
School Technology Planning:
- Start your staff with the best of the best resources
worldwide and the time-saving strategies training
how on to build upon curriculum that is already
available on the Internet.
(Retainer arrangement recommended to work
directly with your resource personnel in an
ongoing capacity; online.)
- Technical Design of school network and/or
distance learning collaboration :
- Web conferencing
- Online Instruction
- Facilitation of Discussions;
Collaborative skill-building
Building sustainable learning communities
- Progressive Internet Curriculum Integration
without trauma! Grantwriting:
Having won 1.4 million in grants and reviewed
grants for private foundations and federal
organizations, as well as helped dozens of
projects get funded, perhaps I can assist your
funding needs?!
Lone Eagle Consulting
- Community-Building Services:
As director of the Big Sky Telegraph Network from 1988-1998, I learned a great deal about "building online learning communities" both by offering online courses to teachers, and also by providing free online interaction opportunities to citizens. I’ve been involved with community networking for over 10 years and have proven to be a successful grantwriter and have authored many articles on community networking and online learning. Here are a few services I can offer: Community Networking Conference Keynotes and Workshop Presentations
On-site community networking workshops:
- Sharing the vision community-wide
- Engaging Citizens; one at a time
- Providing ongoing online self-instruction opportunities
- Facilitating citizen sharing to "Build a Learning Community"
Instructional Brokerage; Youth and Entrepreneurship
Programs:
- Building a local resource base using the best
resources worldwide.
- Entrepreneurship modeling and training
- Youth-driven Instructional Entrepreneurship Programs Technical Design of community networking
collaborative features:
- Web conferencing
- Online Instruction
- Discussion facilitationInternet Entrepreneurship and Self-directed Learning:
Promotion:
- How to become a "Lone Eagle"
- Community Economic Development; Internet-based
- Building community organizational capacity
- Building Social Value by giving people the gift of their
full potential
- Storytelling; making the vision tangible for broad
populations
- Articles for publication
- Articulating your vision and action plan Philanthropy and Foundation Counseling:
- Leveraging Dollars through Internet efficiencies
- Online Monitoring of Mini-grants community programs
- Reaching Rural, Remote and Indigenous populations
- Executive Overviews for Leadership Retreats
* Insights as to what works
* Leveraging National Publicity as a dissemination
strategy