ONLINE TO DISTANCE ED Susan Wagner – TAMU Beth McNeill - TAMU

Health and Physical Activity for Children  Service Course for Special Education and Bilingual Education students  Preparation for the TExESS in Health and Physical Education  Collaboratively created

Moodle  Courses.cehd.tamu.edu Courses.cehd.tamu.edu

Format  Weekly quiz  Weekly Learning Activity  Weekly Planning Activity  Two group projects  Yearly curriculum  Unit plan

Tools used in Moodle  Profile  Discussion forum  Assignment

Transition to Distance Ed  Added instruction and links to  SKYPE  Google Docs  Established virtual office hours  Made contact with each student during the first few days of class via  Grouped students who were registered DE together for group projects

Transition con’t  All assignments turned in electronically  Provided check points using learning activities for projects  Outcomes for curriculum  Objectives for unit plan  Timelines for both projects

Conclusions and Lessons Learned  Students need to feel like they are connected  Communicate often individually and via news forum  Answer all content and assignment related questions publically.  Keep up!