WiscNet

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• WiscNet
• 21st Century Planning Meeting
• 2005
• Madison, WI

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Agenda

• WiscNet Staff Update
• Overview
• BadgerNet Conversion
• WiscNet Learning Management Service
• WiscNet Digital Districts Online
• WiscNet Membership QA

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Mission Statement

• A sustainable association for facilitating the
  work of education and public service through
  advanced network communication technologies.

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Agenda

• WiscNet Staff Update
• Overview
• BadgerNet Conversion
• WiscNet Learning Management Service
• WiscNet Digital Districts Online
• WiscNet Membership QA

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WiscNet 21st Century Planning Session

• WiscNet Learning Management Service (LMS) Working
  Group
• Working Group Chair
• Tim Schell, Waunakee Community School District
• WiscNet Staff Facilitators
• Craig Stephenson Andrea Deau

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Working Group Members

• Stacy Aegerter, Edgerton SD
• Kim Bannigan, Deforest SD
• Mary Jo Black, Ft Atkinson SD
• Kathy Boguszewski, Janesville SD
• Jay Cook, Saint Norbert College
• Karen Coyle, CESA 2
• Kevin Dean, Saint Francis Seminary
• Andrea Deau, WiscNet staff liaison
• Cherie Finnie, Muskego-Norway SD
• Ken Harris, Milwaukee SD
• Tom Heideman, CESA 6
• Dirk Herr-Hoyman, UW Madison, DoIT Academic
  Technology
• Terri Iverson, CESA 3
• Don Johnson, Eau Claire SD
• Neil Johnson, CESA 10
• Amy Klubertanz, Webster SD
• Val Knobloch, CESA 10
• Steve Lanphear, UW Madison, Office of Education
  Outreach
• Louis Loeffler, Cardinal Stritch University

• Terence OConnell, CESA 10
• Tamara Pacholke, Turtle Lake SD
• Joan Peebles, Madison Metropolitan SD
• Ray Peterson, Wisconsin Indianhead Technical
  College
• Tim Peterson, Portage SD
• Andrea Pokrzywinski, CESA 12
• Penny Ralston-Berg, Learn_at_UW
• Marilyn Ramseier, Greenwood SD
• Scott Reeser, Learn_at_UW
• Steve Sanders, DPI
• Tim Schell, Waunakee SD - Chair
• Dustin Schuhmacher, CESA 3
• Kurt Schultz, CESA 2
• Bob Scidmore, Eau Claire SD
• Pamela See, Gateway Technical College
• Ryan Sicard, Somerset SD
• Catherine Stephens, UW Madison School of
  Education
• Craig Stephenson, WiscNet staff liaison
• Sue Stoddart, Marian College

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Why Use A LMS?

• Platform for Virtual Learning
• Designed with online learning in mind
• Virtual office hours
• Homework submission
• Assessment modules
• Resource for Blending Instruction
• Expand the boundaries of the classroom.
• Learning communities with chat and discussion
  threads.
• Post classroom materials on the web easily.
• Complements face to face instruction.
• Preparation for Post-Secondary Learning
• Commonplace in colleges, universities, and
  technical colleges.
• Typical in other learning and training
  environments.

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Why Moodle?

• Designed by educators for educators.
• Full featured, continually developed since 1999.
• Pedagogically sound.
• Open source advantage.
• Global development community.
• Dynamic and flexible.
• Collaborative user community for support.
• Potential to customize if you have the
  capability.
• No licensing costs
• Allows flexibility in use.
• Save
• Still have hosting and support costs.

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Why do this together?

• Lower TCO
• One less server to purchase and maintain.
• Economies of scale.
• Room to grow.
• WiscNet reliability.
• Leverage the Power of Us
• Cooperation, collaboration, community. Learn
  from each other on best practices, professional
  development.
• Network effects If most of Wisconsin schools
  use Moodle as a common CMS platform, we can share
  a common terminology, perhaps content.

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Whats Next?

• Pricing by January
• Will likely have an annual fixed component and an
  annual variable (per unique user per year) fee
  component
• Work group currently looking at unlimited
  courses!
• Service Available early 2006

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Moodle / LMS work group resources

• The Moodle web site
• http//www.moodle.org
• Review Moodle features
• http//moodle.org/course/view.php?id34
• See what Moodle looks like to a Moodle
  Administrator
• http//demo.moodle.org
• See what Moodle looks like as a Teacher
• http//moodle.org/course/view.php?id10
• Listen to an interview with the developer of
  Moodle
• http//technosavvy.org/?p329
• Compare Moodle to other LMS
• http//www.edutools.info/course/compare/
• Learn more at the LMS work groups web page
• http//www.wiscnet.net/Members/Working_Groups/Lear
  ning_Management_Service/
• Visit the work groups test installation of
  Moodle
• http//moodle.wiscnet.net (call or email Craig
  for a login access to the work group maillist)

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LMS Work Group Info Contacts

• Tim Schell (Chair)
• tschell_at_waunakee.k12.wi.us
• [phone]
• Craig Stephenson (Facilitator)
• craig.stephenson_at_wiscnet.net
• [phone]
• http//www.wiscnet.net/Members/Working_Groups/Lea
  rning_Management_Service/

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• WiscNet
• Digital Districts Online
• WiscNet members working together to offer online
  student courseware, professional development and
  other online services rather than creating a
  virtual school.

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Working group chairsJoan Peebles, Madison
Metropolitan SDRoss Wilson, CESA 10

• Sam Boynton, CESA 10
• Bill Breisch, Monona Grove SD
• Dave Bunnow, Fox Valley Technical College
• Kay Chitwood, Fox Valley Technical College
• Annette Czarnecki, Wisconsin Technical College
  System Foundation
• Andrea Deau, WiscNet staff liaison
• Jill Gurtner, Middleton Cross Plains SD
• Steve Lanphear, UW Madison, Office of Education
  Outreach
• Louis Loeffler, Cardinal Stritch University
• Alicia Mundt, WiscNet
• Jennifer Boeck, Monona Grove SD
• Steve Dvorak, Hayward SD
• Loren Brumm, Modumath

Dick Meneau, Prentice SD Patricia Ploetz, UW
Stevens Point Andrea Pokrzywinski, CESA 12 Steve
Sanders, DPI Tim Schell, Waunakee SD Craig
Stephenson, WiscNet staff liaison Barbara
Stinson, UW Colleges Jeff Sutherland, Madison
Metropolitan SD Nancy Toll, Hudson SD Donna Behn,
Janesville SD Kathy Boguszewski, Janesville
SD Maria Bislew, Horicon SD
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WiscNet Digital Districts Online model to
support online learning in the home district
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WiscNet Digital Districts Online model to
support online learning in the home district
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• WiscNet Digital Districts Online
• info_at_digitaldistricts.org
• Andrea Deau, WiscNet staff liaison
• Joan Peebles, Madison Metropolitan SD
• Ross Wilson, CESA 10

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• WiscNet
• WiscNet Membership QA