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OBJECTIVE:  To learn about how to be organized and how the online school is organized.

INSTRUCTION

First, it is critical that you organize your time to be successful in the online school.  This means determining when you are going to do your school work each day.  As you heard in the interview, if you take six online courses, you need to set aside six (6) hours per day to do your course work.

To get yourself organized, download this attached calendar or this one this one in pdf and save it to your computer (you can either type on this calendar or create one of your own).

Now, type out your "typical" school week on the calendar (you'll see an example for you).  If you're not sure of your courses, that let's imagine you have six courses named: English, math, science, history, PE, and elective.  You need to show how you will complete 5 hours a week for each of these courses (5 days a week X 6 courses = 30 hours).

Second, read through and click on the different websites listed below. 

Other websites used by the online school are listed below:

Moodle is where you will find all of your classes.  It is a password-protected course management system that includes all class assignments that need to be completed, discussion forums, grades and many other class related tools.  When logging into Moodle, you should see all of your classes on the upper left side.  Students need to be logging into Moodle every day and clicking into every class by noon!  Training Moodle:  www.answerbay.com

Email (http://login.live.com/ or www.outlook.com ):  Ongoing communication between students and teachers.   All students are expected to use this email account with teachers.  The email account is:  firstnamelastname@cos.cusd.com.

Windows Live (http://login.live.com/ ) is an online collaborative system for technical and content support (Email and Instant Messenger Email is XXX @cos.cusd.com).  You can Instant Message with a teacher or staff member from 8am-8pm on most days.  Students are expected to use this email system for communicating with teachers.  This also includes online storage for students (sky drive).

Blogs are public online journal of thoughts or events.  For our school, this is the place where teachers are posting daily instructions and assignments.  Every student and their parent should be looking at teacher blogs every day (remember, you can subscribe to the blog through iGoogle).  The main school blog is:  http://clovisonlineschool.wordpress.com 

Google and iGoogle:  www.google.com/ig . A way to organize information in a web browser.  All students are expected to have an iGoogle page and subscribe to teacher blogs.  Students completed this as part of the online training as part of the enrollment process.

Elluminate is an online collaborative space that allows participants to all meet in one pace and class web, video, and audio solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration that deliver exceptional outcomes.  Used for online class meetings and class lessons.  A special link will be sent out for students to access the system.  Main website is:  www.elluminate.com .

Wikis are places online that allow people to make web pages.  All of the Clovis Online School courses are built on wikis that are available for others to use.  If  Moodle is not working, the content can always be found on our wiki.   

Main wiki website is:  http://clovisonlineschool.pbworks.com.

Assignments

10a.  Attach your completed calendar in the assignment area.

10b. Write several sentences about what you learned by clicking on the different course websites.

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