Oregon
Online
Instructional
Leaders

Those attending:

MaryJean Sandall and Jim Saffeels, Salem-Keizer School District/SK Online; Tina Mondale and Marty Karlin, Jackson ESD/Southern Oregon Online Schools; Marcia Arganbright, Hillsboro School District/Net School; Steve Rutherford, Portland School District/CyberScholars;  Michael Nickless, Molalla High School/Molalla Rivers School District;  Tom Cook, OPEN;  Marjorie Oughton, Salem-Keizer School District;  Ron Cross, Salem-Keizer School District/Willamette ESD

Updates

Tina Mondale – Southern Oregon Online Schools

·        Charter School Planning Grant for Online Schools – Marty will meet with Joni Gillis and Jim Green regarding charter school funding.

·        Their teachers are learning how to teach online.  They will be holding an inservice for course building June 19-23 for fall classes.

·        They are using Black Board this year:

·        Focus is on kids who fail core classes.

         Two classes in each core area.

         Align to CIM benchmarks

         Using activity-based projects and the Internet.

Tom Cook - OPEN

·        Meeting with community colleges and universities using eCollege.  His eCollege contact is Jim Fricia, Account Manager, NW Area.

·        Suggested having a meeting with vendors for products like, eCollege and Black Board, to take a look at what is on the market to compare what is being used in K-12.

·        Oregon Ed. Network – offering all courses

·        Community colleges are all coming on.

Steve Rutherford – CyberScholars

·        CyberScholars part of larger Summer Scholars Program (1500+students)

·        Using Academic Systems Interactive English and Math

            Net School contract in process for services

·        Will look to SK Online for Health 1 & 2 units

·        Recent passage of school measure will benefit efforts

·        Continuing involvement in Strategic Planning for Distance Education

            PPS master plan for distance education

            US Dept. of Commerce Plan for distance learning

Marcia Arganbright – Net School

·        Very interested in seeing vendors with interfaces that are “all ages” user-friendly and what authoring tools are available.  She has a good article and will email it to anyone that is interested in seeing it.

·        Contracting with Academic Systems and Portland CyberScholars.  Needs to know how many licenses are available.

·        Update training this summer with Academic Systems.  Held training for 8 teachers last week.

·        Trained 40 teachers in using/developing courses using WebCT.  Five to 8 courses currently under development.

·        Will hold a workshop in June to develop courses.

Ron Cross – Salem-Keizer School District/Willamette ESD

·        WESD had identified a new position to be licensed between the ESD and member school for online.  It will soon be advertised.

Michael Nickless – Molalla HS/Molalla Rivers School District

·        2^nd summer for eSchool on campus with Ed. Options – Academic and Standard versions.  Needs Hispanic version.

MaryJean Sandall – Salem-Keizer School District – SK Online

·        New web site for SK Online ( http://www.skonline.org ).

·        Looking forward to enhanced summer session.

·        Currently has 233 students on and is adding funding for 300 additional students.

·        Charging $100 per course (if ADM already used)

·        Looking to contract with Ed. Options

·        Interested in English courses with Academic Systems

·        Pilot with Real Skills this year.

·        Applied for Javits Grant for pilot for “Child U – the Learning Odyssey”.  Jim Schnelling is the contact for Child U (www.childu.com).

·        Developing courses in Algebra, Geometry, Economics, Consumer Economics, Global Issues, Health 1 & 2, Earth Science, and 3 computer courses.  Also, Abstract Algebra, Honors Geometry, and American Gov’t.

·        ODE has pulled SK Online in on keeping track of students.

Comparison of Systems

Providers - Vendors

·        eCollege, Web CT, Black Board

            What works and what doesn’t / ease of navigation

            Costs, flexibility, ease of use – more “all ages” user-friendly

            Conversions and transferring to different sites – perhaps FrontPage-based, HTML.

Commercial Curriculum Providers

·        Nova Net, Ed Options

Considerations:

            Cost per student/class – per site or District

                Content delivery and quality (Level 1, 2, 3 – JS scale)

            Meet CIM standards

                Technology support staffing

                Proprietary issues and appropriateness

·        MaryJean will be meeting with Nova Net contact, Susan Wyling

Statewide Inservice – Friday, October 13, 2000

Online Learning Conference/Workshop

·        List of presenters – ODE/V-Tel/State Legislature/Online Schools

·        Overview of online learning opportunities in Oregon

                Leveling of workshops to experience/involvement

·        Internet safety (4-hr. inservice for teachers)

·        Grant funding

·        Showcase existing programs/software/commercial products

·        Manual for newcomers (FAQ – email addresses/contacts for existing programs)

·        SK Online volunteered their services for providing a place for discussion or to post ideas for conference prior to the workshop.  Jim will set up page and will notify when it’s ready.

·        Marsha will send notice to Technology Challenge Fund list-serve.

COSA Conference – Thursday, June 22, 2000

http://www.cosa.k12.or.us/2000_cosa_conf_.htm

Convention Center, Seaside, Oregon

·        Presentation 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.  Marcia will open.

·        Overview of Distance Learning for Oregon

·        Resources/Development of courses

·        Handouts for various programs

·        PowerPoint presentation

            Send 3 pages of PowerPoint presentation to Jim Saffeels, no later than June 10^th.

·        Meet to discuss presentation after the keynote speaker on Thursday, June 22^nd in the OPEN Network Room to finalize presentation.

·        SK Online/CyberScholars/Net School/Cyberschool/Molalla/Southern Oregon Online Schools (4 minutes each)

·        Possible items for discussion

                School/state funding

                Courses offered by each group – statistics and development tools

                Question and answer discussion period – invite current teachers to be

                    involved “What’s it like to teach online”.

            Push October Inservice Workshop

·        Marcia will email draft of “How to Deal with School Funding” to everyone in the next day or two.

Summer Workshops/Conferences

·        Southern Oregon Online Training  June 19-23  Jackson Co., OR (Tina)

·        NECC  June 23  Athens, GA (Tina, Marty, Marj)

·        Teacher Curriculum Workshop  June 26-28  Hillsboro, OR (Marcia)

·        WebCT National Conference    July 9-11  Athens, GA (Marcia)

·        Syllabus Conference    July 26  Santa Clara, CA (Marcia)

Next Steps

·        COSA Debrief – Mid-summer session – August 3, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.