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By Kara: Correspondence courses
Around 1929 some schools and centers including the North Dakota Center for Distance Education started to offer correspondence courses which were precursors to online and blended learning as we know them today. -
Tele Learning Courses: Mark
First time email was used to submit work. The University of Nebraska High School -
By Kara: Mosaic changes my world
Mosaic Internet browserI
I was a 5th grade teacher at Kempsville Meadows Elementary School in VA Beach when our school installed Mosaic, one of the first publicly availble Internet browswers ,on my computer. I can still remember the shock and excitement I felt as I waited minutes for web pages to load on my computer. I knew this thing called the World Wide Web was going to change the world (and my profession as an educator) -
By Maureen: Utah Electronic HIgh School by Maureen S
Began serving high school students in 1994. -
By Eric: FLVS begins
Florida Virtual School (FLVS) began as the “Web School” in Orange County, Florida, during the 1996 school year. -
Florida Virtual School and Alachua County - Greg
Florida Virtual School (FLVS) partnered with Alachua County and received a $200,000 grant from the DOE in November 1996 intended to develop the Florida High School (FHS) project. -
Maureen: Started teaching
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FLVS Began Using Supplemental Courses. -Greg
Florida Virtual School (FLVS) began serving students with supplemental courses in January 1998 and has served many hundreds of thousands of students. -
By Eric: 10,000 FLVS course completions
FLVS has 10,000 course completions in school year 2000-01. -
By Eric: I begin teaching
I begin teaching English II and English II Honors courses at Interlachen High School in Putnam County, FL. -
By Maureen, DIAL: Dakota Interactive Academic Link
Offered distance classes for grades 6-12 for a course fee -
By Kara: Teach my first online course
I was asked to teach an online course by a for-profit company offering professional development to teachers. While I am not a fan of for-profits in education, I could not resist the opportunity to try online teaching. I recognized immediately that we needed to figure out how to make online learning work in the College of Education at UF. -
By Kara: First completely online M.Ed. offered in COE
My colleague, Rick Ferdig and I, launch the first completely online M.Ed. offered in UF's College of Education. We would later launch an online Ed.S. adn Ed.D. program. Other programs woudl also be developed in the COE. -
By Maureen: Alabama Requirement for Online Course
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Started majoring in Social Science Education.- Greg
In the Spring semester of 2010, I began majoring in Social Science Education at Florida State University. This is when I decided to become a teacher. -
By Eric: Google Drive
Teachers and administrators begin sharing documents and spreadsheets on the PK Yonge Google account, changing the way we communicate, mainly about student data and meeting minutes. -
By Eric: Florida Requires Online Course for Graduation
Students entering ninth grade during the 2011-12 school year must complete one online course offering before graduation. -
I took over as the World History teacher at P.K. Yonge - Greg
Though, I was substitute teaching at P.K. Yonge since August 2013, I took over as a permanent sub in February 2014. -
Mark: Keeping Pace
Keeping Pace identified an estimated 75 fully blended schools in 24 states and Washington D.C. -
FLVS Remains the Largest State Virtual School - Greg
FLVS remains by far the largest state virtual school, growing from 10,000 course completions in school year 2000-01 to 410,962 completions in school year 2013-14. -
By Kara: PKY Wave of Innovation Blended Learning Cohort begins
Another group of teachers at P.K. Yonge begins their transition to blended learning. -
Mark: Google Classroom Implementation
I started using Google Classroom to post assignment and give student feedback. -
Hannah Shankman Signing
My daugher signed a letter of intent yesterday to play soccer for Spring Hill College, a division II school. -
Funding in the future: Mark
'Funding for courses with end-of-course exams will be performance-based for both brick-and-morter and virtual schools beginning in their fourth year of implementation: the first course will be Algebra 1 in 2016-2017.
