Exam 6: The Changing Face of Education: Teaching Online

Being an early adopter of technology tools and devices is required in order to teach online.

____________________ states that "anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

One benefit of using the Web in the classroom is having students interact with subject area experts.

____ is one approach to distance education that uses the technologies of the Internet and the World Wide Web

A virtual school, as illustrated in the accompanying figure, differs from the traditional school by offering all student services, instruction, activities, communications, and courses online using Internet technology.

Examples of podcasts include all of the following EXCEPT ____.

Provide a list of at least five ways in which you and your students can use screencasts as digital representations of traditional printed materials.

Forecasters project that, by 2014, over 66 million K-12 students, including elementary students, will take at least one online class.

With the emergence of Web 3.0 tools, an increasing number of Web sites allow users to group, chunk, and organize bits of information to share with others.

The kinds of learning illustrated in the accompanying figure combine F2F instruction with eLearning instruction.

____ teaching is a method of instruction in which two or more teachers work together to combine their individual talents into one classroom course.

A single page in a wiki is referred to as a(n) ____________________.

The host or author of a podcast is often called a(n) ____________________.

Blackboard ____ allows teachers and students to engage in the learning process using Web conferencing and other technologies as if they were F2F.

____ is a powerful, yet easy to use solution for you and your students to record, edit, and share high-quality instructional videos, student-created video-based projects, and more on the Web, via CDs, via DVDs, and via mobile devices.

To create a podcast, you need a computer with a microphone to capture the audio input, software that allows you to export the audio file in the ____ file format, software that lets you create an appropriate feed, and a site to upload your podcast to.

Google ____________________ is a Web site that offers free space and makes it easy for you to create customized content in a few minutes.

A(n) ____________________ can be downloaded to a computer on many mobile devices, such as smart phones and iPods, and downloaded automatically using programs capable of reading feed formats, such as RSS or Atom.

Uncertainty or assumptions about what students understand and their skill level when entering your class could provide a frustrating experience for the learner and the teacher.

____________________ school refers to a traditional school with physical buildings for teachers and students together.