September 18, 2007
A school staff meeting...with 600 teachers
Q: What do you call your K-12 staff meeting when there are more than 600 employees at your school and they are all among the highest rated teachers in the state?
A: It is the Florida Virtual School Annual Staff Meeting
Florida Virtual School is one of the key R&D partners of the Academic ADL Co-Lab. I met several of FLVSs newest online teachers (about 200 of them) who were not here last year. That number is not based on attrition but staggering growth. These new teachers are incredibly enthusiastic about the work they are doing with their students. For me, seeing so many teachers who are passionate about delivering high-quality online learning and who are unafraid to push the boundaries of teaching with technology is uplifting. In fact, several that I talked with were anxious to move into new realms to include games and more advanced interactivity into their courses.
The Co-Lab is already working on two significant projects to create more interactive courseware with FLVS and we just agreed to extend our partnership with two more projects to closely integrate games in scalable and meaningful ways into FLVS courses. Of course having GLS faculty projects housed in the Co-Lab and a top learning game development company as a spin-off helps a great deal in this effort!
The AADLC is delivering three presentations at the staff meeting this year and I was fortunate enough to be asked to discuss the future of online learning technology (always an energizing topic to deliver).
I hope to squeeze out at least one more post before the conference is over.
Posted by Rovy at September 18, 2007 10:26 PM
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