Sep 07 2008 04:47 GMT

Teaching and Developing Online. This blog will focus on the teaching of High School online. There are many approaches to online education and we are here to share them. The tint of the cyber glasses are a result of working at the Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School.

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25 most recent entries:

Essential knowledge, skills, attitudes and advice for Online Teachers

(Sep 05 2008 18:02 GMT)
The most essential knowledge, skills and attitudes required of an online teacher online teaching info...

Ten Online Teacher Compentencies

(Sep 05 2008 17:57 GMT)
Yearly, the Cyber School hires four new teachers and, like the face to face schools, we try to hire the most competent teachers for the positions. The online teacher's competencies differ only slightly from the face to face environment. It...

Quote of the Day

(Sep 05 2008 17:56 GMT)
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. Henry Brooks Adams (1828-1918) U.S. historian and writer. The Education of Henry Adams....

Being a parent is soooooo humbling.

(Sep 05 2008 17:54 GMT)

SCCS Mentoring Program

(Sep 05 2008 00:16 GMT)
Thanks to Kelli Boklaschuk who was delegated to compile this write up on SCCS. She did an excellent job. 1. Does your school have a formal teacher mentoring program? The Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School provides both a formal and informal...

Quote of the day

(Sep 05 2008 00:12 GMT)
Education seems to be in America the only commodity of which the customer tries to get as little he can for his money. Max Forman...

School funding

(Sep 05 2008 00:11 GMT)

20 examples of grammar misuse

(Sep 03 2008 19:58 GMT)
Grammar just ain't what it used to be, it seems. When we explained the difference between "fewer" and "less than", following Tesco's policy shift on this matter, readers told us what grammar rules they see being flouted or find confusing....

echo genesis

(Sep 03 2008 18:12 GMT)
What a neet non-killing type game. Echogenesis...

Quote of the day

(Sep 03 2008 17:21 GMT)
The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. Sherwood Anderson...

Slinky

(Sep 03 2008 17:20 GMT)

Facial Recognition .... way cool.

(Sep 02 2008 22:19 GMT)
Today's cameras can make taking a good picture as easy as pushing a single button. Uploading, labeling, and sharing the photo is where things are more likely to get messy. Google's simplifying this by introducing facial recognition technology to Picasa....

Learn English Language

(Sep 02 2008 19:25 GMT)
This site contains free to use interactive games for learning languages and links to study resources. English language learning games...

Anatomy arcade

(Sep 02 2008 17:59 GMT)
Anatomy Arcade makes basic human anatomy come ALIVE through awesome free flash games and interactives. Finally, students can play flash games in class and not get in trouble for it and teachers can run lessons that will engage students like...

Education is ...

(Sep 02 2008 17:57 GMT)
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. Prof. Irwin Edman...

Who has been visiting TADO blog ...

(Aug 21 2008 22:29 GMT)

Tell us something ... Part 7

(Aug 21 2008 18:52 GMT)
We asked...Tell us something. A neat story about you in the cyber school. Something we could have done better. Something that we could use on our website to sell the cyber school idea.

Education is ...

(Aug 21 2008 18:51 GMT)
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Bertrand A. Russell (1872-1970) English philosopher, mathematician, and writer....

What to say is you are caught sleeping at your desk ... Part 1

(Aug 21 2008 18:48 GMT)
Another school year is beginning and I am finding that adjusting to my work schedule has resulted in me being tired...so if you are like me and get caught by your boss sleeping at your desk...try this......

Stupidity and the Internet

(Aug 20 2008 18:45 GMT)
As might be expected, much of the debate focused on Nick?s core contention: the Internet is subtly molding our minds to favor brief snippets of information rather than the nuance and complexity that can only be communicated in much longer...

Tell us something ... Part 6

(Aug 20 2008 17:31 GMT)
We asked...Tell us something. A neat story about you in the cyber school. Something we could have done better. Something that we could use on our website to sell the cyber school idea.

Quote of the day

(Aug 20 2008 17:30 GMT)
Education is hanging around until you've caught on. Robert Frost...

You might be ... Part 29

(Aug 20 2008 17:29 GMT)

Education in five minutes...works for me.

(Aug 19 2008 19:20 GMT)
Thanks to Stephen Downes... this made me laugh....

Online Education Assumptions

(Aug 19 2008 18:26 GMT)
There have been two common assumptions that have been a hindrance to the development of the Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School. The first is the targeted K-12 learners for the school are digital natives as explained by Prensky (2001) and what...

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