While teachers may feel alone, especially in the online classroom, the reality is that we have many talented and innovative colleagues throughout the state using Etudes. The goal of this session is to form a community that can thrive beyond this session into a virtual support and best practices sounding board.

This session offers English instructors an opportunity to meet with online colleagues and share our challenges and triumphs. We will explore as many best practices and Etudes English sites as time permits. We will introduce learners to the Users Group spin-off Language Arts DG.

Workshop Format:
As participants enter, they will write their biggest challenge or triumph on a tiny slip of paper which the co-facilitators will collect. These will become the rough agenda for the session.

The focus is on how we meet the current challenges of teaching English and 21st Century literacies online and will undoubtedly lead to our discoveries that some of our colleagues have found workable and maybe even elegant solutions to them.

The computer/projector set-up will be used to share our actual Etudes sites. Anyone offering a solution will be invited to show the group how it actually works in his or her site.