Liaisonics

Until now, there has not been a course for potential campus liaisons to learn specific skills to use while working conjunctively with on-line teachers and their students. Liaisonics addresses that gap by offering activities to teach such skills. Just as the on-line environment leads to generative learning among students, the collaboration of participants in this two week online course will spawn new ideas that can be drawn upon by campus liaisons to help on-line students succeed. In addition to the training, participants who successfully complete the course requirements will be awarded 6 professional development hours.

Participants in the Liaisonics, will achieve the following:

• Experiential knowledge of the richness available through on-line courses.
• Authentic knowledge of the on-line learning medium by way of individual reflection in dialogue with other on-line participants.
• Techniques which will aid on-line K-12 students to excel in independent growth through group collaboration.
• The tools needed to help identify students who may work well in on-line courses.

• Sending and receiving e-mail
• A working knowledge of the Internet
• Proficiency in word processing
• Basic knowledge in computer operation
• Willingness to produce and share content

• 56k modem or high-speed internet connection
• Minimum 64 MB memory RAM
• Windows 95 or higher
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
• Microsoft Word