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CO12 4th Annual Free Online Conference February 3-5 2012

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:31:03 GMT

by Dr. Nellie Deutsch.

You are invited to join CO12 4th Annual Connecting Online Free Conference: http://www.wiziq.com/events/co12.htm

February 3-5 - 2012 Hashtag #CO12

The conference will be of interest to educators, administrators, students, and community members who value the importance of integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction and learning. Online learning involves various skills on the part of the instructor and learner. These include social and communication skills, social networking, independent learning strategies, critical and higher order thinking skills, creativity, and effective online and face-to-face facilitation. In addition, there are many challenges that educators, administrators, students, and community members face.

The conference will be of interest to educators, administrators, students, and community members who value the importance of

integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction, learning, and business. Online learning involves various skills on the part of the instructor and learner. These include social and communication skills, social networking, independent learning strategies, critical and higher order thinking skills, creativity, and effective online and face-to-face facilitation. In addition, there are many challenges that educators, administrators, students, businesses, and community members face.

The theme of the conference is, connecting online for instruction and learning that goes beyond

face-to-face meetings. Presenters from around the globe will discuss the following topics:

Connecting online to improve instruction and learning: Online learning and pedagogical/instructional experiences
Experiences with the use of technology in face-to-face and online classes. What worked and what didn't work for you?
How do you use technology to promote your online workshops, consultation, business, and communities?
Research conducted on e-learning
Books written on e-learning
21st Century learning and teaching
Challenges of the 21st Century learning/teaching environment
Leading a business with e-learning technology

Warm wishes,

Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D.

Hate Email Notifications: Unsubscribe from the discussion forums

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:36:46 GMT

by Dr. Nellie Deutsch.

Learn how you can stop those annoying email notifications in one click. Just go into forums and click on unsubscribe me from all as demonstrated in the following video:

Happy Holiday Season: December News on IT4ALL

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:57:01 GMT

by Dr. Nellie Deutsch.

Dear Members of IT4ALL,

I believe 2012 is going to be a great year for teaching and learning with technology. You are invited to learn how to enhance your class with technology by learning to teach and be the administrator of Moodle course and learning management system. There are many free and low cost workshops on google docs, blended learning, learning to install and use wordpress.org, how to create WebQuests, Writing Academic Papers, creating e-portfolios and how to integrate technology into your classes.

You are invited to join our small group (under 20) low cost 6-week workshops for Moodle for Teacher Administrators at the basic ($150) and advanced ($120) levels.The two workshops provide participants with two Moodle labs to practice as administrators of Moodle. One lab is for 1.9 and one for 2.2. Participants learn how to install and manage Moodle as administrators and facilitate their own online courses. Each participant receive individual attention throughout the workshop. For more information, please contact me and the course syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/198FgVeVX26bZatNBNJehHWc_inCV90w2u85TsnYroqk/edit?hl=en_US andhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtfoGZgPKnMnVg2UDuSbszva2FrPOA4WQRAxy3KJtqA/edit?hl=en_US

You are invited to as co-facilitator or student of the workshops available on IT4ALL. Please contact me for further information. You may also pass on the information to your colleagues and friends.

Have a wonderful holiday season and a great 2012!!!

Warm wishes,

Dr. Nellie Deutsch

Free Webinar by Dr. Janet Salmons

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:07:04 GMT

by Dr. Nellie Deutsch.

Dear Members of IT4ALL.

You are invited to join SAGE for a webinar with Janet Salmons, author of Online Interviews in Real Time (2010) and editor of the new Cases in Online Interview Research. Dr. Salmons will discuss her "E-Interview Research Framework," which provides key questions and guidelines for many issues inherent in research that utilizes data collected online. She will draw on both books—in addition to her extensive experience as an online researcher and a graduate faculty member at Capella University—to provide examples that illustrate research options, dilemmas and successes, as well as to answer your questions.

The webinar will take place Wednesday November 30th at 12 noon EST/9am PST/-5 GMT.
Reserve your place today!

With the advent of rich synchronous online communications, researchers can interview participants from across the globe to create the knowledge we need to understand our changing world. Faculty who teach or guide researchers are finding that students want to use the tools they communicate with every day to communicate with research participants. But as e-research offers new opportunities the complexity of decision-making increases as well. New questions emerge about how to design and conduct such studies:

How can the researcher justify the choice to interview online rather than in person or on the phone?
What online technology and interview approach are most suitable given the purpose of the study?
What skills will the interviewer (and interviewee) need?
How does the researcher obtain informed consent from credible participants?
What ethical dilemmas need attention?

Join Janet Salmons to discuss these issues, and more!

Reserve your place at the webinar today!


Online Interviews in Real Time Janet Salmons, Vision2Lead, Inc. and Capella University School of Business and Technology Paperback: $53.00 ISBN: 978-1-4129-6895-9 © 2010, 256 pages	Cases in Online Interview Research Janet Salmons, Vision2Lead, Inc. and Capella University School of Business and Technology Paperback: $34.95 ISBN: 978-1-4129-9180-3 November 2011, 400 pages

"This is a very timely addition to the set of essential methodological texts that every qualitative researcher should have in their professional library. It covers an area where there has been little writing to date, it does so in a very read-friendly way, and it is comprehensive enough for even the novice reader, while still including the more senior researcher."
—Karen L. Tonso
Wayne State University

For those interested, Dr. Nellie Deutsch wrote a chapter in Cases in Online Interview Research.

Newsletter for October 2011

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:21:26 GMT

by Dr. Nellie Deutsch.

Dear Members of Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL),

You are invited to enroll in the current & upcoming free and/or low cost online workshops.

For further information, please contact the facilitators.

Thank you.
Facilitators @ IT4ALL

A few more places left

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:27:12 GMT

by Dr. Nellie Deutsch.

Dear Moodlers,

I would like to announce that there are a few more places left for participants to join the upcoming (November 1, 2011) Moodle for Teacher Administrators (M4TA) 6-week workshop at Integrating Technology: http://www.integrating-technology.org/course/view.php?id=300

The tuition is $150.

Warm wishes,
Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D.
Educational Technology
Curriculum and Instruction

Moodle for Teacher Administrators

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:26:53 GMT

by Dr. Nellie Deutsch.

Greetings Members of IT4ALL,

We would like to invite you to enroll in the upcoming November 6-week Moodle for teacher administrator workshop. The workshop will be moderated by Dariem Garces, a Moodle developer of the WebQuest module, technologist, and consultant for virtual learning environments. Join now and save your place. Only 15 participants will be accepted.

Warm wishes,
Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D.