28 High School Courses available for school Use-OVSD January Update

Submitted by snelson on Sun, 01/21/2007 - 3:29pm.

OVSD Update-January, 2007


Current Work Completed

  1. There are 28 high school courses in the portal for use by all 198 Districts. These courses are available in the OVSD Moodle LMS and as ZIP downloads.

http://courses.orvsd.org

AP Courses

High School Courses

  1. AP US History I

  1. AP US History II

  2. AP US Government and Politics

  3. AP Physics B I

  4. AP Physics B II

  5. AP Physics C I

  6. AP Physics C II

  7. AP Calculus AB I

  8. AP Calculus AB II

  9. AP Calculus BC I

  10. AP Calculus BC II

  11. AP Environmental Science

  1. History II

  2. American Government

  3. IntUS History I

  4. US introductory Physics I

  5. Introductory Physics II

  6. General Physics I

  7. General Physics II

  8. Introductory Calculus I

  9. Introductory Calculus II

  10. General Calculus I

  11. General Calculus II

  12. Environmental Science

  13. Algebra IA

  14. Algebra IB

  15. College Preparatory Physics I

  16. College Preparatory Physics II

Soon to be added:
  • AP Biology I
  • AP Biology II
  • World Religions

  1. The Microsoft Professional Development Portal is set up for use. This is where we will channel teachers for PD courses, materials and sharing. http://ITN.ORVSD.org

Current Quarter's Work

  1. Allocate the Professional Development funds to an outside Organization to provide Professional Development to Oregon Educators about OVSD and get Schools using the tools. Getting the word out about OVSD and getting schools to use the tools is a high priority and we are looking at outsourcing the staff work and passing through funds to the ESD’s for implementation. The University of Oregon will provide on line training content.

  2. Purchase forty more courses fin the core areas or middle school and high school teaching. Purchases are planned to come from programs like SK Online, Oregon Online and Oregon Universities for all schools to use. Our Public, instate Providers offer a cost effective path for us to increase our online catalogue for school use. OVSD will buy their courses an improve them. This continues our commitments to provide flexible online teaching tools for all districts, invest in Oregon education programs through cost effective strategies.

  3. U of O will be seeking grants for funds and assist with OVSD Development.

  4. Leveraging Agreements with Curriki.org for $200,000 in Course purchases.

  5. Continue working with INTEL for Applications Donation to increase local private sponsorships, Electronic Portfolios and increase Parental involvement in education.




Inter ODE Coordination by OVSD

  1. Channeled $50,000 in OVSD Professional Development grants through the ED-Tech Cadre to train Educators on OVSD tools and other technical education tools available to teachers for instruction.

  2. Coordinated a Qwest donation of $50,000 for small grants to teachers for classroom technical education purchases.

  3. $60,000 has been encumbered to supply the Student AP Courses for up to 200 low income students as part of the Federal Low Income Education Grant that EII received. These funds will be distributed through an RFP process.