Kinsella, J., Antrim-Cambium, S., & Barbour, M. K. (2005, March). Presenting an AP class via the Illinois Virtual High School. Presentation at the Advanced Placement Conference, Chicago, IL.
Chicago Public Schools Advanced Placement 2005 - Presenting an AP Class via the Illinois Virtual High School
1. Pr esenting an
AP Class via the
Illinois Vir tual
High School
Jim Kinsella
Sarah Antrim-Cambium
Michael Barbour
2. What is the mission of
the Illinois Virtual High
School (IVHS)?
To use new and emerging technologies
that expand the boundaries of space
and time to provide Illinois students and
their teachers with increased equity and
access to the highest quality educational
opportunities
Illinois State Board of Education-Aug. 24, 2000
3. Primary purposes
Assure equitable access to rich and
varied learning opportunities for Illinois
students, with emphasis on curricular
areas needed to ensure that all students
can meet the Illinois Learning Standards
and succeed in higher education and
the workplace;
4. Primary purposes
Expand high-quality professional
development opportunities for Illinois
teachers and other educators; and
Support schools in integrating technology
into teaching and learning.
5. AP in IVHS
IVHS has been offering online
AP classes since 2001
In school year 2001-2002, IVHS had 37
enrollments in 12 AP courses (9 full year and
3 semester-long)
This school year (2004-2005) IVHS had 225
enrollments in 18 AP courses (13 full year
and 5 semester-long)
6. How do we currently
teach AP online?
IVHS AP courses contain high quality
rigorous content utilizing multimedia and
providing many opportunities for additional
web research
Communication – email, telephone,
synchronous chat
Student discussion occurs with
asynchronous discussion boards
7. How do we currently
teach AP online?
Assignments and projects are
completed and submitted, often
using a dropbox feature
Elluminate is a synchronous virtual classroom
tool featuring text messaging, voice chat,
whiteboard, presentation and recently added
video capabilities
The AP exam is ordered and administered by
the local schools and is not included within the
IVHS course
9. What do you want to
know?
Contact us:
Jim Kinsella, IVHS Coordinator of
Instructors jkinse@ilstu.edu – 309/287-1338
Sarah Antrim-Cambium, IVHS Local School
Program Coordinator for Cook County
santrim@imsa.edu – 630/907-5883
Michael Barbour, IVHS Online Instructor
mbarbour@coe.uga.edu – 706/542-4025
10. What do you want to
know?
Contact us:
Jim Kinsella, IVHS Coordinator of
Instructors jkinse@ilstu.edu – 309/287-1338
Sarah Antrim-Cambium, IVHS Local School
Program Coordinator for Cook County
santrim@imsa.edu – 630/907-5883
Michael Barbour, IVHS Online Instructor
mbarbour@coe.uga.edu – 706/542-4025
Hinweis der Redaktion
opening presentation 15 min panal identify 5 min panal discussion 30 min open questions 10 min
mission Established What we do
Supporting Stats how many- who passed unable to get accurate stats at this time due to confidentiality issues and that the grades are reported by College Board to the local school. Pilot-ap micro/macro(4) ap gov(11) 15 enrollment Pilot was only one semester started spring 2001 12 ap courses 2001-2002 ( First full year) of those 12, 9 were full year and 3 were semester (total enrollment in AP Courses = 37) 2004-2005 – 18 AP courses (13 full year -5 smester) 225 enrollments.
While our courses do have some basic chat or text messaging capabilities, teachers often discover that their students are already using popular Internet chat tools. If that is the case, teachers will use those as a means to informally communicate with their students in an unplanned manner.
Assignments and projects – (higher order assingments and group project work – might make a sentence or two about that) Dropbox – just simple statement that it’s a place for assignments to be submitted that doesn’t go through email Introduce the panel idea - We will be presenting how we have implemented the ap course Using the student perspective to serve as example
Our students are past completers of an online AP course and/or are currently enrolled in one this year. we will then present the panal who will identify themselves and give a short description of their experience with AP and IVHS. A list of questions will be asked by me or sara or mike for the panal to reply. open questions will be addressed in the final few minutes of the presentation. Panel discussion questions Did you take more than one AP course online? How were they different? Did you take an AP course that was not online? How was it different than the online course? Was your online AP course monitored in any way? – classes, essays, tests. How and where was the AP Test administered. Do you prefer one type of class (online v f2f) over another? Why? What did you find most appealing? What did you find most difficult? Did you find group work bothersome? Did you find the free scheduling to be advantageous or not? Why? Were you able to communicate with your classmates? Was your class monitored at your home school? How much work did you put into the class after school? (assuming you had time to work on the class during regular school hours) Did you have any technological problems? Did you find the course content adequate? What assignments did you like best? What assignments did you like least?
Might be a nice place to mention the partnership between isu – imsa – etc -