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Edge-ucator - Where Cutting Educators Learn Online

Tom March has facilitated successful in - person Workshops in the US and Australia for over 15 years. With the launch of this online course environment - edge-ucator.com - Tom can support more in-depth and ongoing professional growth than was previously possible.

Online Support scenarios that might work for you:

Traditional Online Courses
Working the Web
Web-and-Flow has incorporated the main aspects of "Working the Web for education" since 1999. This 2 - 4 week course (overview 68K pdf) - serves as both an introduction and extension for educators using the Web in classrooms and libraries. Best used to introduce "working the Web" to educators who don't regularly and easily integrate rich resources into their lessons.


BestWebQuests University BestWebQuests.com presents BWQU (72k pdf course description) a 4 - 8 week master class during which Tom March provides personalized brainstorming and feedback on participants' WebQuests. Raise the bar on your group's WebQuest development with this inspiring workshop.

Unconventional Options!

One-off Fee'd back on WebQuests
Let's say you've already worked with a group of your teachers to create WebQuests in a workshop or college course. How about some objective Real World Fee'dback? Tom March has long been recognized for making WebQuests that support a New 3Rs: learning that is Real, Rich and Relevant. See if you think your WebQuests achieve all that they can.
Follow-up to In-person Visits
The best activities are usually developed after new learning settles in and mixes with each educator's special gifts. That's why Tom has a keen interest in supporting people after an in-person session ends. Curriculum change also requires ongoing motivation and support so sustain your teachers' momentum throughout the school year.

How this works...

  1. To make it feasible, you must gather a group of 10 - 25 cutting edge-ucators from your school, district, region, pre-service program, college course, etc.

  2. What you can expect to pay? Things are a little flexible, but a good rule of thumb is to figure the cost at $100 / participant / week. Prices are reduced substantially for the two longer workshops listed above, but the price as well as the content will be worked out to suit your goals and budget. Remember, a group of 15 - 30 participants is required to book a session.

  3. If your goals align with what Tom can offer and the price and timeframe work for you, don't be slow in making Contact with Tom March to co-design your online learning experience.

Available Courses

Web-and-Flow
This workshop introduces participants to the famous Web-and-Flow range of Web-based activities that begin with Hotlists, move into Samplers and culminate with WebQuests.  A main reason to explore these strategies is that through creating them, teachers learn to develop learning activities that support research, the affective domain, conceptual learning and constructivist meaning-making.  People have been talking forever about helping students do more than acquire knowledge.  Let's finally do it!
Join the 2nd 10 Initiative
Will we take this second decade of access to the Web and broadband devices to make learning Real, Rich and Relevant for all students?  We can if we take a systemtic, 2nd10 approach.  Use this online workshop to learn how you can support students and colleagues as we work to transform factory learning into digitally individualized achievement.
Starting Your ClassAct Portal
Gather 10 - 20 colleagues and learn how quickly you can set up a ClassAct Portal.  This will become the authentic learning generator for for passionate explorations that are Real, Rich and Relevant.
Beginning WebQuests
This course guides groups of 15 - 25 colleagues through a complete understanding of WebQuests and provides enough activities and feedback to assure that all participants have a solid draft of a WebQuest.
WebQuests: Advanced Class

If you've already written and / or facilitated at least a couple WebQuests, gather a group of 10 - 20 similarly expert colleagues to receive feedback and suggestions for getting the most Real, Rich and Relevant learning from your "Best WebQuest." You can begin a new one or improve one you've already created.