Effective with the membership meeting held on November 9, 2012 at Rose State College, ODLA will be opening two new positions on the board to address constituents that are currently under-represented.

A representative for Native American Governments and a representative for Libraries will be implemented as soon as the ODLA Constitution and Bylaws are updated. More details will be posted at www.odla.org and through our social media streams.

"We've discussed the need to hear more from these two constituencies for at least ten years," said Scott Charlson, incoming President for ODLA. "It's exciting to see that Elaine was able to make this happen.

Elaine Johns is transitioning from President to Past-President as of the November Membership Meeting. 

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	When: November 9, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM Where: Rose State College Professional Training & Education Center 1720 Hudiburg Drive Midwest City OK 73110 Bring your iPads, iPhones, Android phones, tablets, and share the apps you use. This is going to be a hands-on conference!  Registration for Exhibit Space, Presentation Submission, and Attendance are now open.

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ODLA was pleased to receive an invitation to attend the 2012 Digital Learning Summit held on April 19th and 20th this year at the Crowne Plaza in Oklahoma City.

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Do you have mad web skillz? Or are you a whiz at graphic design? ODLA could really use your help. We would love to get your ideas and help with managing this website as well as any advice or direction on social media campaigning. ODLA is on LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook (Page and Group), and would like to get involved with Twitter.

This site is built on the Adobe Business Catalyst service. We'd love to expand use of the CRM features and get somewhere with the email campaign functionality but we're all volunteers with day jobs that seem to get in the way of the fun stuff.

Please contact Steve Cade if you're interested.

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Please join us in expressing our profound sorrow at the loss of a wonderful and giving person who touched Oklahoma and the Distance Learning community in so many ways. Leonard William "Bill" Johnson passed away on Wednesday, March 28th as a result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident from the previous weekend.

Bill was an ardent supporter of the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association from its inception. He participated in nearly every conference we held and moved mountains to ensure the demonstrations of technology would amaze the participants. His passion and vision for technology as a tool to bring people together and achieve understanding was without limit. 

As Chief of Operations at OneNet, Bill kept a videoconferencing system in his office and published the address far and wide. He had so many visitors from all over the world "drop by and visit" and was endlessly curious about who they were and what they were doing and what they wanted to do. From setting up the Eagle Cam at the Sutton Avian Center to working on how to improve the collection of data for the Mesonet, Bill was a constant, boundless, enthusiastic and infectious force of nature in pursuit of expanding the limits of technology.

We will truly miss you, President Emeritus Bill Johnson.

If you have any suggestions on how we may honor Bill's spirit of service to distance learning or have any stories you'd like us to collect and share we'd be deeply grateful to hear from you.

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Topics of Discussion at the March 9th Technology Awareness Committee

The Flipped Classroom

• What is a flipped classroom?
• The link Tim Crisp added below could serve as an excellent “what is” intro and also stimulate discussion. Note that video duration is 2:15.
• Advantages of a flipped classroom.
• Disadvantages (dare I say Dangers) of a flipped classroom.
• Technology to help support flipped classrooms.
• Summary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H4RkudFzlc Tim added this link to Aaron Sams’ youtube video on flipped classroom.

Maybe this could be done as a discussion / discovery session. Watch the video... audience (live or async) provides input on advantages / disadvantages... how would this work????


10 Learning Strategies that all Educators should consider – and how technology can be used to support them.
(Note that I’m not stuck on the number 10 or the strategies listed below… just an idea and a starting point.)

• Learning in Context
• Authentic Practice
• Constructivism / Contructionism
• Situated Cognition / Cognitive Apprenticeship
• Creating Relevance
• Synchronous / Asynchronous classes
• Cross-curricular projects (PBL)
• Task Level (I don’t remember the proper name for this… but the levels ranged from something like rote memorization to synthesis. I’ll look it up later, but just wanted to get something down to discuss at this point.)
• Promoting Transfer
• Collaboration / Cooperation (generally called cheating in K-12)
• Learner Centered Classroom / Teacher Centered Classroom
• Games / Simulations

Name that Strategy Game
(I’ve just started considering this…so it’s real weak. Maybe it has some possibilities.)

• Short videos of various strategies being used in a classroom (with technology used to support the strategy use, of course).
• Challenge would be to get videos and permissions to use!
• Unless they could be found pre-made on YouTube or TeacherTube
• Learner (viewer) challenge is to determine what learning strategy is being used.
• I foresee something like a forum attached to each video where viewers can discuss, dispute, complain, …

I think this could be done as either a sync session or an async session / web resource.

Core Curriculum
(I don’t know anything about this - but Barbara and Elaine may have an idea for a project associated with this.)

http://sde.state.ok.us/curriculum/CommonCore/default.html Tim added this link to the State Common Core Initiative web site. There is a lot of information

Project about Technical Training in Industry


Resources: 

Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia2-1111.html?gclid=CInL7LiDl64CFcIDtgodQFvlKw

CamStudio: .http://camstudio.org/ it’s a free open source screen and audio recording software.

Xerte: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/ free, open source, eLearning development environment. Not quite as capable as Authorware - but $3,000 cheaper! Published version works with flash player.

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Elaine Johns, President of ODLA has accepted the resignation of Roxanne Glenn as ODLA Secretary effective March 1, 2012. Roxanne has recently accepted additional duties as a D2L Administrator and is active in the planning of the campus cable television channel.

Roxanne was a great asset to us in organizing and conducting our conferences as well as doing the yeoman's task of organizing all of the minutes and votes for the board. We wish her the best of luck as she pursues these exciting new challenges! 

Kristi Wheeler has agreed to fulfill the remaining term as ODLA Secretary.

Kristi is currently the interim manager for Engineering Distance Education at Oklahoma State University. She has been with Engineering Distance Education for 13 years working closely with the engineering departments to grow distance education, meeting today’s demand for non-traditional students as well as traditional students.

Her department houses three online graduate degree programs including Engineering and Technology Management, Industrial Engineering and Management, and Electrical and Computer Engineering. They also house one undergraduate completion degree program in Electrical Engineering Technology (with only the core courses being online) as well as offering many undergraduate courses, most being technology-related.

Krisiti's team offers between 85-100 online courses per semester to students located around the globe.

Kristi's contact information can be found on the ODLA Officers Page.  

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