Welcome to Online Learning

HIGH SCHOOL GEOMETRY: ONLINE
About Me

Segla Kossivi
E-mail:segla.kossivi@waldenu.edu
Tel.: 917-554-9105
My name is Segla Kossivi and I will be your instructor for this course; for familiarity, you can call me Segla. I graduated from Nortern Caribbean University (NCU) in Mandeville-Jamaica (West Indies) in Mathematics, and from European University (EU)-Toulouse (France) with MBA: International Business Management (Finance). My background is mainly in education, where I have passion in teaching mathematics at both high school and college level. My previous teaching positions were at NCU where I taught Calculus, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Quantitative Business Analysis, and Business Ethics, then at EU where I taught Calculus, Statistics, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Cost Accounting, and Finance. I am a math teacher in New York City Schools and City College in Brooklyn, New York. I relocate and live with my beauty Queen, Sherry in Laveen, Arizona.

As an inquiry minded person, I always ask for the whys of things and like to challenge the status quo. Always thirsty for knowledge, I devote my time in seeking, exploring, and daring, realizing I need something more. Each question brings another one, and each response carries the next question: the life of a Philosopher. I like to challenge ideas, find meaning to anything, and have passion in teaching mathematics.
To fit into the 21st century and beyond, I am presently pursuing MS in the field of Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) at Walden University.

Welcome Message
Welcome to high school geometry: online learning, a system that continues to shape education for a brighter future!
No one ignores the changing path of education, shifting from traditional setting to a more asynchronous path leading to a mobile learning , and responding to the changes the technological advancement and communication technologies continue to bring to an evolving society. Learning, in a shifting gear, is becoming a part of the transformation to anytime, anywhere, and anyone’s learning modalities that the digital age is ascribing. Online learning is taking great strides to alleviate the pains and frustrations the face to face (F2F) or traditional education imposes on participants. Online learning is enabling and equipping participants with brighter learning system for maximum satisfaction in education, presently and futuristically .
http://www.m-learning.org/case-studies/bloom.

The address of the site for our CMS orientation is http://kossivi.edu20.org.
Refer to the table below to register with your Id and a password.
Administrator and Student Accounts
Account User Name Password
Administrator Skossivi xxxxxxxx
Student Student’s choice Student’s choice

This is an asynchronous learning environment. You can log on anytime and anywhere. We will be using Edu2.0 online course management system. We will also use other online tools available on the Internet with YouTube videos to show you how to use the necessary tools for the course. You would have to download and install, free, some software that work with any operating systems: Mac or windows.
Edu2.0 Tool Overview
Edu2.0 is our online learning portal where you will create an account with your personal user name and password to have access to the course and everything involved. It is an easy to use learning management system. I will use the site to create online lessons with resources, contents (syllabus), video, and audio. From this site, I will control every aspect of the course such as course material and a variety of activities and assignments. We will cover and complete topics in sequence within a specific time. We will use the system embedded in Edu2.0 to track assignments, grades, learners’ activities, and feedback, thanks to embedded tools such as wikis, forum, chat rooms, and even RSS feeds for more resources. You will find all resources and content page under resources (libraries). Please click on the link below to familiarize yourself with Edu2.0: http://www.edu20.org/
Discussion Boards
You will have to use the discussion boards, sometimes, for discussing some assignments or any topics you may need help with. You will know when to participate in discussion forums. Please watch the videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7wFrITZ0FA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzyjOjdx8pg



Free Internet Tool Overview
Sound Cloud/Audacity
You may have to narrate your math problems, explaining how you arrive at a particular answer to a problem. You need to download Sound Cloud or Audacity, free internet application that allows sharing of audio files. You can also use Adobe Sound booth, if you have it. http://www.soundcloud.com/, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ6tFBMFvz0&feature=related
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rQr5YVNqI0
YouTube
You can also use the media center to record your work. Windows media transforms your recorded video into YouTube that you can upload on the Edu2.0. It is even better to use YouTube than Sound Cloud or Audacity. Please watch the following video:Http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=geometry&aq=f
Google Friend Connect
Google Friend Connect turns your blog into a place where people meet and get to know each other with Google Friend Connect's easy-to-use features.
http://www.google.com/friendconnect/home/overview
Please watch the video to learn how to use
http://www.youtube.com/v/NlKEWHcW5QE
Other Tools
Other tools such as tools for screen recording (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0gIscztCBk
file storage sharing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQYiWkvGQ0E&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=G56EmUyiJgs&feature=fvsr
web conferencing (www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7060/index.html, www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxt2h6CLFhU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAl3fMldnZQ&feature=related
video content (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVAzwXquD70
are on the Edu20.org home page under Tools at the bottom of the page
Webspiration
You can use webspiraration to map and organize your ideas, your plan of action such as flow chart to solve your math problems. You can also invite a friend, or share your ideas using this software. The site will allow you to install free webspiration: http://www.mywebspiration.com/. For tutorial, please watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-UKDREPHKs
Sample: http://www.mywebspiration.com/view/828787a16ac0
This is a learner-centered course that provides an essential framework incorporated in Edu2.0 d for curriculum and instruction, assessment systems for evaluating educational goal attainments. The framework contributes to understanding effective strategies that can address problems of low levels of academic achievement. Please read more on the benefits of leaner-centered principles:Http://www.cdl.org/resource-library/articles/learner_centered.php. Please watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR4ocKovy28
Certification
You are required to complete required assignments, quizzes, and exams within the assigned time to earn 3 credits in mathematics. You will find the entire requirement uploaded on the Edu2.0 site.

Online excellent resources enable students’ success in geometry. Interactivity helps building a sound foundation in learning geometry. As online asynchronous learner, you have access to excellent online resources to adequately help you prepare for the course for life time learning and your grandiose success. Please click on any clickable links in the annotated bibliography for your success:
Academic Technology Center - Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (2008). Benefits of using discussion boards in your classes. Retrieved from http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/ATC/Collaboratory/Idea/boardbenefits.html.
Please watch the video to learn how to use discussion boards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hp8e8LkuuM
The online browser check-up found on the following websites will equip you with the minimum technology requirements for your success. Http://www.yourcallla.org/SORT/sort/html/tool.html
http://facweb.bhc.edu/browsercheckup/


Jarrett, K. (2008). Edu2.0: The free learning management system (LMS) for everyone. Retrieved from http://www.edu20.org/.
Edu2.0 is the course management system (CMS) learning management system (LMS) will use for our course, and it allows you as distance learner to access information anywhere and anytime, with your mobile computing such as iPhones and PDAs. Edu2.0 is free and suitable for your course learning. Please click on the link above to familiarize yourself with the CMS you will be using to complete the course. Please watch the video below to empower yourself. Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3yNmSIOkJo


Landsberger, J. (1996). Study guide and strategies. Retrieved from http://www.studygs.net/.
Please review other components of discussion forum by visiting http://studygs.net/intstudy.htm.


Please watch the videos below to acclimatize yourself with cloud computing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgujaIzkwrE&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Vb0xQqdq8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD5jbOcoFE4&feature=pyv&ad=7975291649&kw=geometry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RMWO9JxZjA

The success of a distance learner depends on various characteristics. Some attributes relate to intrapersonal communication skills, self-motivation, self-directed, and self-esteem. Learning in an asynchronous environment requires individual readiness. You are required to demonstrate academic Integrity, student’s readiness and responsibilities, and communication Skills. You are required to review the course performance goals and outcomes and prepare performance goals of your own, providing the context in which you intend to use the knowledge, skills, and perspectives from the course, and share reasons for taking the course and what you hope to learn. The following site will guide you in your endeavor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtYCx8g6Z_w&feature=related
http://thebasicsofanything.com/characteristics-of-successful-distance-learners-2
http://ecps.jah.schoolfusion.us/modules/cms/pages.phtml?pageid=113885&sessionid=
http://www.ectolearning.com/Blog.aspx?g=cjnapcqbwl&p=964
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/viewArticle/189/271
http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall33/rockwell33.html
http://distancelearn.about.com/od/isitforyou/a/considering.htm

I am looking forward to have fun with you in class!