1. Fortbildung Online
Institute for Quality Development in Schools, Schleswig-Holstein:
Teacher training
Professional Development and Continuing Education
School Development
IT-Services
Face-to-face training as well as continuing education offered online within Germany or worldwide

2. Alt-Duvenstedt, Schleswig-Holstein
Hartmut Karrasch
Alt-Duvenstedt, Schleswig-Holstein

5. „Fortbildung Online“: Daily business

6. Other topics Music: Samba batucada Mathematics: Derive
English: Webquests
Geographics: GPS – Systems, GIS
Plagiarism in schools
Online surveys
Burn-out prevention for teachers

7. Facts about Fortbildung Online
1150 events with more than participants
290 moderators trained and certified
Competence centre for synchronous eTeaching
Partner for eLearning projects (i.e. Join Multimedia)

8. Experiences
Synchronous eLearning should not be longer than minutes.
Most of the moderators like to act in the virtual environment. It‘s quite similiar to teach in realtime in a real classroom.
Synchronous events have to be well prepared!

9. Competencies for live eLearning

10. Participants: low Basic skills: Internet handling Application handling
Maybe new:
Handling a headset

11. Live eTeaching is heavy business!
Moderators: high
Technical skills:
Internet handling
Application handling
Data flow
Pedagogic skills:
Experience as teacher in regular classrooms
Ability to feel the atmosphere in virtual classrooms
Flexible acting and reacting, timing
Moderating discussions
A trained moderators voice
Multitasking skills
Excellent preparation of live lectures
Live eTeaching is heavy business!

12. Training the trainer Building an agenda Participating in live events
Interactive tools
Basic methods
Troubleshooting
(2 days or completely via internet on three days)
COACHING
Fake-Events with own agenda and just in time feedback from
experienced moderators.
First live event with participants and more feedback .
PRACTICE!!!!

13. School project between Hamburg and St. Petersburg
Language skills:
Talking in German and Russian
Working in groups (iClass in Interwise)
Experiences:
Handling of interwise is no problem
Internet connection to St. Petersburg was unstable (in 2003)

14. iMeetings for closed groups
Hundreds of iMeetings in groups
i.e.
Once a month
Experts for education with participants
(Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland)

15. Values of synchronous Online-Events for teachers in-service training
Ability to set up events without real classrooms at any time
Quality increase by including external experts
Very interesting for „exotic“ learning groups
Borderless
Possibility to record whole events
External technical infrastructure
Materials are transmitted electronically and can be used directly
after the event
Time saving
No need to travel
Family friendly (?)

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