NCVPS Community: e-lert for Sept. 28

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E-learning Success Stories

Submit your stories here: http://tiny.cc/d2oby Please tell us about student success stories and district success stories, such as increased virtual enrollment, fulltime DLA positions, teacher facilitators, and other virtual initiatives that have been started in your district. You may also forward to students and principals to complete!

Professional Networking

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New Link for Homeschoolers and Private School Students [e-lert for Sept. 28]

If your district is enrolling homeschooled or private school students, you need to take a look at this new link on the NCVPS website.

http://www.ncvps.org/parentstudent/homeschool/index.html

This site has information on the process for enrolling these students and collecting the fees now approved by the State Board of Education. Please notify your Director(s) of Finance about these resources.

Also see the Quick Reference Guides in the Spa for the appropriate forms.

9 Week Health Course Being Offered by NCVPS [e-lert for Sept. 28]

NCVPS will be offering a 9 week health course to supplement your Health/PE program. Here are some of the advantages to this new offering:

Advantages for 9 week long health:

-Scheduling PE with a community college allows schools to enroll students in Health for 9 weeks and PE off campus. This leaves the on-site PE and Health teachers with smaller ratios which should enhance instruction.

-This option may be especially attractive to upperclassmen many of which would rather not take classes with freshmen.

-2 sessions per semester

- With 2 sessions per semester, a school could enroll all of their PE students in a health class online; half in the first nine weeks of the semester and half in the second nine weeks. This gives the school the option of putting an assistant in the lab with the health students and allowing the PE teachers to all split the PE students that are left. This will effectively cut ratios in the gym in half, providing for better quality PE instruction. After the nine weeks ends, the health students can go to PE with the PE teachers and the PE students can go to the lab for health.

If you have additional questions, please contact Karen Creech and karen.creech@ncpublicschools.gov.

LEO SPRING courses [e-lert for Sept. 28]

Visit the DLA Spa for the list of LEO spring courses. A math placement test will be required for iSchool math courses. Students, particularly those whose classes were cancelled this fall, will be contacted about dates for spring registration.

If you have not enrolled students in iSchool courses before, visit the web site for information about the process, http://ischool.uncg.edu

NC Community College System course will also be available for spring, contact your collaborating Community College for more information about spring courses.

Please contact me with any LEO questions
Deborah Pedersen
deborah.pedersen@ncpublicschools.gov

NCVPS Reminders [e-lert for Sept. 28]

1) If your students need tutoring help, be sure to check out our Peer Tutoring Center by following this link.

2) Be sure to update your contact information in the registration system. Follow this link to see how to update your contact information.

3) Central Office Distance Learning Coordinator: Follow this link to watch a short video that shows how to check your district's enrollment, check grades, and enroll and drop students at the school level.

4) Follow this link to the Student Checklist for Fall 2010.

5) Follow this link to the DLA Checklist for Fall 2010.

NCVPS Culture Cafe [e-lert for Sept. 28]

The Culture Cafe is a social and educational setting that brings together current, former and future NCVPS world language students in an online environment in order to immerse them in the culture of online world languages. Former students can stay connected to the language they have learned, current students will get to practice the language and future students can gain a sneak peak at our robust world language courses.

Look at our upcoming sessions at (http://tinyurl.com/ncvpsculturecafe) and details on joining the sessions at (http://ncvpsculturecafe.blogspot.com).

NCVPS Community - E-lert for Sept. 3

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E-lert Subscription

Have you subscribed? If not, you can subscribe at the new e-lert site here. Look for the subscription service at the top of the sidebar. You will receive a confirmation email to activate your subscription. Each notice will have an unsubscribe option, too.

E-learning Success Stories

Submit your stories here: http://tiny.cc/d2oby Please tell us about student success stories and district success stories, such as increased virtual enrollment, fulltime DLA positions, teacher facilitators, and other virtual initiatives that have been started in your district. You may also forward to students and principals to complete!

Professional Networking

Join NCVPS on Facebook. Are you into networking and social media? Come join over 650 other educators here: http://www.facebook.com/ncvps

Follow the virtual learning consultants on Twitter at http://twitter.com/MyVLC

Peer Tutoring [E-lert for Sept. 3]

Today is the publication for our first Tutor Talk article of the year. You can visit this link [ http://ncvpspeertutor.blogspot.com/2010/08/online-learning-for-new-school-year.html ] to read articles written by peer tutors to perhaps give you ideas on how you might be more successful in your online class here at NCVPS. This weeks article is entitled "Online Learning for the New School Year" by tutor James Beavers. Be sure to leave a comment for the author after you have read the article. You may have your own ideas to share about the topic?

Follow this link to see how to register students for peer tutoring help.

Reminders [E-lert for Sept. 3]

1) Be sure to update your contact information in the registration system. Follow this link to see how to update your contact information.

2) Central Office Distance Learning Coordinator: Follow this link to watch a short video that shows how to check your district's enrollment, check grades, and enroll and drop students at the school level.

3) Central Office Distance Learning Coordinator: Follow this link to see how you can check the contact information for the distance learning advisors in your system:

4) Follow this link to the Student Checklist for Fall 2010.

5) Follow this link to the DLA Checklist for Fall 2010.

Digital Photography Editing Software [E-lert for Sept. 3]

Digital Photography Editing Software – It is absolutely NOT mandatory for students to purchase Adobe Photoshop for this course. It IS, however, essential that every student have access to some type of PhotoEditing software. ALL sections of Digital Photography provide a list of optional free and cheap alternatives. Students will access this list in their courses by going to PHOTO RESOURCES > DIGITAL EDITING SOFTWARE SITES FOR PURCHASE OR DOWNLOAD.

NCVPS Culture Cafe [e-lert for Sept. 3]

The Culture Cafe is a social and educational setting that brings together current, former and future NCVPS world language students in an online environment in order to immerse them in the culture of online world languages. Former students can stay connected to the language they have learned, current students will get to practice the language and future students can gain a sneak peak at our robust world language courses.

Look at our upcoming sessions at (http://tinyurl.com/ncvpsculturecafe) and details on joining the sessions at (http://ncvpsculturecafe.blogspot.com).