Online with Tom Nixon

Connexions

I regularly have several projects going on at the same time. One very cool and very secret project came to initial fruition today. My district, Fresno Unified School District, was selected to be one of four districts within California to be part of a pilot of iPads. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and Apple are providing [...]

I am giving a presentation virtually tomorrow for the eLearning Special Interest Group of CUE, Computer Users in Education. It’s been a while since I have presented in Elluminate, so it should be interesting. I am going to talk about the current state of online high schools both in California and nationally. Still pulling together [...]

Yes, I’ll take a thousand of these, please!

I just now reserved my room for iNACOL‘s Virtual School Symposium in November. This year it will be in Glendale, Arizona. If you work in online learning, if your school district is considering online learning, if there is the remotest possibility that you need to learn more about online learning, this is the one conference [...]

Two questions: How do I know that this is a school with quality instruction and quality administration? How do we replicate this for our online students? Ocoee Middle School Gotta Keep Reading from Michael Cardwell on Vimeo.

I had an interesting exchange with an online high school teacher who shall remain nameless. He works full-time in a school district that has a policy against “friending” current students on social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, etc.), but also works part-time for an online high school that has no such policy. He asked my opinion [...]

As some of you know, I teach graduate courses in the School of Education at Fresno Pacific University. Specifically, I teach in the online Library Media program (and soon in the online Educational Technology program; more on that later). Of all the things that I do, I really enjoy working with these students. It makes [...]