I have the incredible good fortune to watch a French teacher work over the next month. She's taken on the responsibility for a Grade 10 French summer course for students. The challenge is that she is teaching it online to students here in Canada and overseas, specifically China and Pakistan. They are all existing students in our school that are trying to get ahead in our French program -- that's important because they are already familiar with the technology commonly used in our school. While many school leverage the learning management system, the OneNote Binder has given her a way to not only structure her content but closely observe and provide feedback on every student's work from minute to minute. She is using Lync as her communication medium; this has been our one technological learning curve but both she and the students have been learning fast. Lync is one of Microsoft's products so it is closely integrated into our email, Sharepoint and networ...
...not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. J. Dewey