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Monday, July 16, 2012 MoDLA 2012 Conference Program Available
Next week is the Missouri Distance Learning Association‘s annual conference. This summer, it will be held in St. Louis, Missouri. Cooperating School Districts‘ Nancy George and Stephanie Madlinger (MoDLA‘s 2011 Excellence Winner in K-12) will be presenting on Friday, July 27th at the conference. Keynotes include both K-12 and higher education speakers. To read more about it, and their presentations, click on the image to go to the online program.
Tags: Cooperating School Districts, District's-Choice Online Learning, Google, HEC-TV, Missouri Distance Learning Association, MODLA, Show-Me Distance Learning, Videoconferencing
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Thursday, August 4, 2011 July 2011 Top Reads
Here are the top five blog posts for last month on The Wired Classroom — have you read them?
#1 Special Interest in Your METC Proposal
#2 To Establish Justice coming up
#3 Learning About Media Literacy and the K-12 Classroom
#4 2011 Missouri Distance Learning K-12 Educator Award Goes to….
#5 The Effects of Media on Gender Identity Videoconference
Tags: media literacy, METC, MODLA, New Links, Virtual Learning Center
Thursday, July 14, 2011 2011 Missouri Distance Learning K-12 Educator Award Goes to….
Congratulations to Stephanie Madlinger, program coordinator in CSD’s Virtual Learning Center, for receiving one of the the Missouri Distance Learning Association’s Excellence Awards for 2011.
Stephanie was nominated and won the K-12 Educator Award from MoDLA. The Missouri Distance Learning Association is a non-profit association formed to promote the development and application of distance learning to education and training.
The award is given to instructors who use educational technology effectively and provide challenging, engaging and innovative educational opportunities via distance learning. Stephanie will be honored at the annual MoDLA conference next week in Springfield, where she will also present Saving Schools $$$ by Using Online Resources.
Tags: Missouri Distance Learning Association, MODLA, Virtual Learning Center
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Thursday, April 14, 2011 Mobile, Open, Connective: Distance Learning Refined
The Missouri Distance Learning Association (MoDLA) will hold its 14th annual conference in Springfield, Missouri, on July 21 and 22nd. The theme this year is Mobile, Open, Connective: Distance Learning Refined.
The MoDLA conference attracts attendees interested in all aspects distance learning from K-12 schools, higher education institutions, non-profit organizations, state government agencies, the military and private industry. You can follow MoDLA on Twitter @modistancelearn.
Tags: Distance Learning, Missouri Distance Learning Association, mobile, MODLA, Twitter, Web 2.0
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010 The Future is Now
The Future Is Now: Taking the Next Step in 21st-Century Learning was the 2010 Missouri Distance Learning Association (MoDLA) Conference theme. Megan Moncure attended the conference last week in Springfield, Missouri. They offered more than 40 breakout sessions, roundtable meetings, and special interest group session with a tremendous range of information and resources for their distance learning partners. According to Megan, program highlights included Taking the High School Classroom Online (starting a duel credit program at Drury University), a session on a study (Missouri State University) about traditional seated courses versus blended courses, and a trivia night that included a performance from the Skinny Improv comedy troupe.
Tags: Distance Learning, Drury University, Missouri Distance Learning Association, Missouri State University, MODLA
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Monday, May 3, 2010 Taking the Next Step in 21st-Century Learning
“The Missouri Distance Learning Association is a non-profit association formed to promote the development and application of distance learning to education and training.
The MoDLA Mission:
To be the premiere statewide organization in Missouri for promotion of the effective application of distance learning strategies to maximize access, equity, and quality of educational resources for teachers and learners of all ages.
MoDLA Goals:
The goals of the MoDLA will be consistent with the goals of the USDLA, which include:
- Advocate: to advocate and promote the use of distance learning.
- Information: to provide current information on distance learning.
- Policy: to represent the distance learning community before government policy and regulatory bodies.
- Association of Associations: to serve and support the state, consortium and individual organizations that belong to USDLA.
- Recognition: to provide annual recognition and awards of outstanding achievements in distance learning.
- Partnerships: to serve as a catalyst for the formation of Partnerships among education, business, health care and government.
- Access and Equity: to promote equity and access to life long learning through distance learning.”
The MoDLA Conference, 2010 The Future Is Now: Taking the Next Step in 21st-Century Learning, will be July 22 & 23, 2010 in Springfield, Missouri. Click here to learn more about the keynote speakers.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 MoDLA Announces 2009 Conference Dates
The 2009 Missouri Distance Learning Association (MoDLA) conference will be held on July 9-10, 2009 at the Tan-Tar-A Resort in Osage Beach, Missouri. Mark your calendars and visit www.modla.org for the conference updates.
According to its website, the “mission of the Missouri Distance Learning Association is to promote the effective application of distance learning strategies to maximize access, equity, and quality of educational resources for teachers and learners of all ages in the state.”
The 2009 conference theme is “Getting Ready for the Next Decade.” Topics Include (but not limited to):
• Distance learning budgets
• Online learning environments
• Online collaboration
• Multimedia in distance learning
• Online instructional practices
• Instructional design
• Building online communities
• Technology tools in distance learning
• Research in distance learning
Tags: Building online communities, Distance learning budgets, Missouri Distance Learning Association, MODLA, Online instructional practices, Tan-Tar-A Resort
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 “From Seattle to Singapore, Beijing to Berlin…”
… if you’re looking for ways to engage middle and high school students in authentic research, presentation skills and use of technology then you’ll want to be involved in the 2008-2009 Kids Creating Community Content (KC3) Contest. This standards based project taps into the creative nature of your students as they look at their community and explore ways to share your unique area with students around the world. For complete details and project requirements visit:
http://kc3.cilc.org.
I learned about the KC3 program at MODLA during Jan Zanetis’ session. Teachers, this looks really great! Please take a moment to learn more about the project!
(Also at MODLA, I learned more about Flickr’s Creative Commons, where I found all of the photos above).
(left to right) Editor B, luismi1985, said&done, RoadRunnur
Tags: CILC, Collaboration, Distance Learning, Flickr Creative Commons, Kids Creating Community Content, MODLA, Tandberg, United States Distance Learning Association, videoconference
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 KC3 Kids Creating Community Content – over Videoconference
Jan Zanetis of Tandberg presented at MODLA last week on KC3 Kids Creating Community Content. Last year was the first year of the student videoconference project, and they plan to continue it into this school year. Here are some details from the guidelines listed on the website:
PROJECT OVERVIEW
From east to west, urban or rural, we each live in a unique community. What can we learn from our area, from our varied citizens or natural resources? What can we share with others that will enhance their view of our country or our world? This standards based project seeks to tap into the creative nature of students as they look at their community with new eyes and explore ways to share their findings with others using videoconferencing and technology as a resource.
Requirements include, in part:
- Student Teams will research a topic in their community. Examples of this might include a historical place or figure, a natural resource, a unique place of interest.
- Students will develop an informational program geared toward a specific audience educating them on the topic.
Students all over the country participated- from Oklahoma to Hawaii! Jan shared some clips from the videoconferences that were really great. Students were teaching others about their community; for example, the students in Honolulu taught their mainland peers and about hula and about aquaculture. Students in Texas educated others on Fire Ants. The kids on both ends were totally engaged, as were the participants in Jan’s session. I can’t wait to get St. Louis area schools involved.
Tags: 21st Century Classroom, 21st century learner, 21st century skills, aquaculture, CILC, collaborative projects, community, Distance Learning, fire ants, hula, MODLA, student projects, Tandberg, videoconference
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Monday, July 7, 2008 MODLA July 9-10 @ Tan-Tar-A
I’ll be off for a good part of the week at the Lake of the Ozarks presenting at the Missouri Distance Learning Association annual conference. If you are attending, please stop in my session Thursday morning! I will be talking about our videoconferences between authors & K-12 classrooms.
To see MODLA’s blog, visit
http://modla2008.blogspot.com/
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Tags: author visits, csd, Distance Learning, MODLA, New Links to New Learning, Tan-Tar-A, videoconference, Virtual Learning Center
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