This document summarizes an educator's experience taking an online course on building an online learning environment. The educator learned about various online tools, including Edmodo for bringing students online safely, rubistar and rcampus for creating rubrics, and yacapaca for online assessments. The educator found these tools useful to incorporate technology into the classroom and to provide online learning experiences for students. Overall, the course helped the educator feel comfortable with change and implementing new technology in the classroom.

1. Building an Online Learning
Environment
Donna Leahy
October 2010

2. The Online Classroom
• I thought this part of the course helped
me, as an educator, to really think about
how technology will affect my job in the
future.
• This course has allowed me to feel
comfortable about change and how to
successfully begin to implement that
change in my classroom now.

3. My Online Classroom
• I found edmodo to be a very useful tool.
– It allows me to bring my third graders online in
an appropriate and safe way.
– The site is private and the students do not
need email addresses to sign up.
– Edmodo will provide my students with a great
online learning experience.

4. Online Learning and Evaluation
Tools
• Rubrics
– I liked looking at things from a different
perspective. It was interesting to really focus
on the desired outcome to create a rubric and
then create the lesson.
– This is something that I will implement more
often in the future.

5. Online Learning and Evaluation
Tools
• I enjoyed exploring the different sites. The sites
I found worked well for me were rubistar and
rcampus.
• Both sites were easy to navigate and I was able
to find rubrics for a wide range of curriculum.
• http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=1089954&
• http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=D393BA&sp=true&nocache=1286
• http://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=A4X53A&sp=true&nocache=1286

6. Online Learning and Evaluation
Tools
• Lesson Plans
– It was very useful to explore various sites
where you could create you own lessons or
use already create lessons.
– I found lessonplanpage to useful. The site
was easy to navigate and completely free.
– http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSCommunityBrochures23.htm
– http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathCinderellaRounding35.htm

7. Online Assessment Tools
• Polls and Surveys
– This section I felt was extremely useful. I
used obsurvey once I figured out how it
worked, I found it to be very useful.
– This site allows me to create various types of
polls and surveys that I can tailor to my
curriculum.
– http://obsurvey.com/S.aspx?id=6767e843-4277-4cfd-a3b6-
f508ba4dae9f

8. Online Assessment Tools
• Online Assessment:
– After trying out a few sites, I found that yacapaca really fit
my needs.
– On this site I am able to preview online assessments
quickly to determine if they are right for my students.
– Once I have chosen assessments for my class, I am able
to assign them to my class
• As in edmodo, my students can sign up without email
addresses.
• http://yacapaca.com/py/teacher/assignment/new/step3preview/fram
e/quiz/1707/
• http://yacapaca.com/py/teacher/assignment/new/step3preview/fram
e/quiz/11746/

9. Online & New Media Solutions For
Differentiated Instruction
• I found new sites that can be incorporated into
daily instruction on sites such as: glogster, linoit,
and timetoast.
• These sites provide the ability to do some
completely new things with lessons, but also the
ability to enhance already existing lessons and
tie in technology.
• http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/85271
• http://linoit.com/users/dleahy/canvases/inbox

10. Reflection
• This course was extremely useful and
worth while. I would definitely recommend
this course others. Although some things I
continue to fine tune, I have found many
opportunities to integrate technology into
the present classroom. This course has
made the integration of technology into the
classroom a realistic and attainable goal
for me.