eLearning…A Semester in Review

By: Phil Zellers

It has been quite an exciting year for the eLearning team.  We have attended many conferences and professional developments over the past several months and have gathered some valuable information and tools for technology integration.  With this being the last blog of 2013, I thought I would recap some of the services we can provide and some of the resources we have made available to everyone. 

How Can We Help?

The eLearning team is here to assist you in any way we can.  Here is a list of some of the ways we can help.  It is not an all-inclusive list so, if you need help with something but don’t see it on the list please come see us.  Here’s the list: Digital Organization (organizing files and emails, creating folders), Curating Content (collecting and organizing content and delivering it to students), Connected Education (Twitter, Learning Connection), My Big Campus (all things MBC), Google Apps (google drive and docs, gmail, etc.), Apple Products (downloading and updating apps, updating software, Apple lessons), Project Base Learning (how to get started), Video Editing and Slideshows (Using iPads for videos and pictures, editing and compiling pictures and videos), and Web Tools (assistance with integrating a variety of web tools).

Available Resources

The eLearning team has compiled a variety of resources and put them online for your use.  The best place to get started finding these resources is our newly created webpage.  You can find our webpage by going to the Perry Central homepage and clicking on eLearning in the Programs drop down menu across the top.  There you will find a slideshow that has different links to various resources such as this blog, a more extensive list of what we can assist you with, PBL help, SFS RISE, Total Participation Techniques (TPTs), and a list of web tools.  Another place you can go is to the PC eLearn My Big Campus page.  In the resources tab, you will find folders with resources on PBL, TPTs, and Content Reading and Literacy.  One more great place for resources is Twitter.  By following any of us on Twitter (@Jamie Guillaume1, @MrKrisWalsh, @Zellersp), you will have access to any links to resources we tweet or retweet from others.   

Meet with Us

Yes, the resources are online but much of the time the assistance you need requires a face to face interaction.  This is what we enjoy most.  We want to meet with you to help in any way we can.  We are more than happy to meet with you (or to come into your classroom to model, introduce a new tech tool, or just brainstorm) whenever it is most convenient.   

We have truly enjoyed working with everyone this semester and look forward to continuing that work in the spring semester.  We hope that you have a restful and relaxing break!  Happy Holidays to you and your families from the eLearning team!