October Spotlight
October Spotlight Forging Ahead in an Online Learning Environment Mr. Felker teaches 8 th grade social studies at Massac Junior High School. He and other junior high teachers spent part of last year and most of the summer recreating their curriculum and instruction. This effort culminated in a new online learning environment. Mr. Felker created a series of web pages that integrate many of the Google Apps for Education as well as other instructional applications to house all of his instructional resources for his U.S. History course. He not only added text once found (often outdated) in the student textbooks, but he also added many multimedia rich resources that this online learning environment makes possible. When asked about this project, Mr. Felker shared some of his initial goals in creating this online curriculum. Goals: Develop a method that places the teacher in the position to develop Learning Targets that allow the stud