Strengthen your teaching craft with online courses.
Online courses may seem like an unusual concept. After all, we’re all accustomed to teaching and learning face-to-face. However, online courses are a great solution for working professionals. They offer a high level of flexibility and opportunities to practice and understand something new.
Current Courses:
1. Internet Organizer Toolkit Courses
A. Creating an Online File Cabinet - Prerequisite
Offered through Quincy University | 1 graduate credit, $125
MSE 5 IT 319
Course-takers will learn how to “think with technology” and will be guided through steps for building an online file cabinet. Course-takers will be shown how to visit the online file cabinets of other teachers to see a myriad of different types of resources.
In their new online file cabinet, course-takers will create and organize online subjects, folders and documents for their classes and begin articulating their own unique philosophy of organizing their information. Instructions for migrating classroom materials to a digital format are provided in this course along with guidance on how to capture and paste Web links in a virtual file cabinet. Teachers at all levels of Internet skills can adapt their file cabinet to meet their personal needs.
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Take the course: complete this registration form. The form indicates next steps.
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B. Communicating with Students and Parents
Offered through Quincy University | 1 graduate credit, $125
MSE 5 IT 321
Course-takers will learn how to present information for parents and students in an online format and learn strategies on how to become more efficient with administrative tasks related to teaching. Teachers will learn how to make classroom materials available for parents and students who miss school.
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Take the course: complete this registration form. The form indicates next steps.
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C. Virtual Field Trip
Offered through Quincy University | 1 graduate credit, $125
SE 5 IT 320
Course-takers will learn how to create and present an interactive, Web-based lesson for their classes using search engines and digital resources. Course-takers will be shown examples of virtual field trips created by other K-12 teachers and will have the opportunity to exchange resources with colleagues.
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2. Teaching Social Studies in the Digital Age: Library of Congress
Offered through Quincy University | 3 graduate credits, $460
Explore the online resources of the world’s largest library and bring social studies alive for your students! This self-paced course will help you find the most up-to-date information available for your social studies classes at the Library of Congress online. In this course you will create interactive, Web-based lessons and learn how to use a powerful Internet Organizer Kit to organize and present your new-found teaching materials online after the course is finished.
- Course is self-paced
- Course materials are provided via e-mail to you
- You may start this course when you want and finish in 6-8 weeks
- No meetings, all assignments completed online
- Course is offered throughout the school year and summer
Read the syllabus.
Take the course: complete this registration form. The form indicates next steps.
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3. Taming the Web... Using the Internet Organizer Kit
Offered through Quincy University | 3 graduate credits
Taming the Web is a correspondence graduate credit course designed for all K-12 educators to give you valuable practice using your Internet Organizer Web site. You will create three Web-based projects called “Virtual Field Trips” for IMMEDIATE use in the classroom. Virtual Field Trips are a convenient, easy-to-learn vehicle for incorporating the Internet into your curriculum.
- Course is self-paced
- Course materials are provided via e-mail to you
- You may start this course when you want and finish in 6-8 weeks
- No meetings, all assignments completed online
- Course is offered throughout the school year and summer
Read the syllabus.
Take the course: complete this registration form. The form indicates next steps.
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4. Building Bridges: “Raising Student Achievement through the Construction of Professional Learning Communities”
Offered through Quincy University | 3 graduate credits
The goal of this online course is to help librarian/media specialist engender collaborative work relationships among teachers and instructional support personnel at their school. Networking technologies are introduced to school faculty during the Final Project of this course. This course is especially useful for school leaders with under-funded library media programs.
- There are no meetings
- All assignments are completed online
- Final project is planned with course instructor
- Textbook used: "The School Buddy System," written by ALA member Gail Bush of Dominican University, formerly curriculum librarian at Maine West High School in Des Plaines, IL.
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Take the course: complete this registration form. The form indicates next steps.
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5. Teaching and Collaborating with Technology: 9-12
Offered through Quincy University | 3 graduate credits, $375
Designed for the high school level, this course provides educators with an Internet Organizer (online file cabinet) resource. Course activities focus on using the online file cabinet to save time, to manage the “paperwork headache” and to create an easy means of sharing digital information with students and parents. Course-takers will have access to a community of educator file cabinets to see how cohorts are using technology to teach and collaborate.
- Course is self-paced
- Course materials are provided via email
- You may start this course when you want and finish in 6-8 weeks
- No meetings, all assignments completed online
- Course is offered throughout the school year and summer
Read the syllabus.
Take the course: complete this registration form. The form indicates next steps.
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6. Teaching and Collaborating with Technology: K-8
Offered through Quincy University | 3 graduate credits, $375
Designed for the elementary level, this course provides educators with an Internet Organizer (online file cabinet) resource. Course activities focus on using the online file cabinet to save time, to manage the “paperwork headache,” and to create an easy means of sharing digital information with students and parents. Course-takers will have access to a community of educator file cabinets to see how cohorts are using technology to teach and collaborate. Course-takers will also visit kidskonnect.com to access digital curricular resources.
- Course is self-paced
- Course materials are provided via email
- You may start this course when you want and finish in 6-8 weeks
- No meetings, all assignments completed online
- Course is offered throughout the school year and summer
Read the syllabus.
Take the course: complete this registration form. The form indicates next steps.
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