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The program uses excellent children’s literature, journal writing, and interviewing to promote reading for understanding. This wiki was designed as a one stop shop, pointing to all the different ASK programs offered by a variety of organizations. There are two goals for this wiki: To provide a place for teachers to find ASK programs to sign up for (NOTE the availability – not all programs are open to everyone) To provide a place for videoconference coordinators to learn how they could offer ASK programs for their schools The wiki is now archived at http://www.janinelim.com/wikispaces/askprocess/ The Macomb Intermediate School Districct is where the ASK process with videoconferencing started, and they are still running it in 2020. So be sure to check out their site as well . Macomb ISD staff mentored several organizations in running the ASK programs over the years. If you love books and technology, and haven’t heard of this structured format, I highly recommend that you take some time to learn about it! Share this: Tweet Print Email More Pocket Share on Tumblr Reddit Published by Janine Lim , in Good Teaching , Videoconferencing . Leave a reply Strategies to Assist Distance Doctoral Students in Completing Their Dissertations January 20, 2020 My colleagues and I recently published an article on distance doctoral students in The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning . It’s a Field Notes article, with practices from our experience shared. Lim, J., Covrig, D., Freed, S., De Oliveira, B., Ongo , M., & Newman, I. (2019). Strategies to assist distance doctoral students in completing their dissertations . The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning , 20 (5), 192-210. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i5.4532 Strategies for Three Goals In the paper, we share strategies and technology tools that meet the following three goals: cultivate a shared culture of responsibility and commitment a tool to discuss the distance doctoral student’s social network teaching students how to manage their split life a tool to evaluate the student’s readiness for the dissertation process mapping out where dissertation skills are developed in the program increase effective communication between researchers being available to students giving effective feedback generating trust using humor grow departmental and institutional services and technologies for faculty and students the use of online and library resources campus-wide use of research software writing retreats departmental support for research If these areas are of interest to you in supporting online doctoral students, I encourage you to take a look at our article . It’s open access, so please enjoy! Share this: Tweet Print Email More Pocket Share on Tumblr Reddit Published by Janine Lim , in Online Learning . Leave a reply Book Review: Ecologies of faith in a digital age: Spiritual growth through online education January 13, 2020 Recently I had a book review published with the Journal of Research on Christian Education. You can read the full review through your library . The book is available through Amazon as a Kindle version or paperback. I highly recommend that you read the book, particularly if you’re involved in faith-based online education. The book sparked some interesting questions to think about: What are some examples in the Bible of using nature/creation as an illustration for spiritual growth? What lessons can we extract from those illustrations in the Bible of what a digital environment should be like in order to support spiritual growth? What are some ways to do the one another” phrases from Paul’s writings – together online? i.e. build up one another”, comfort one another” as as few examples. Here’s a snippet of my book review to inspire you: Lowe and Lowe argue that the natural is not just a metaphor for the spiritual; that Scripture does not support Plato’s division between the natural and the spiritual. God’s methods of gardening are evident both in the natural world and in our spiritual growth and are identical” between them (p. 41). The proper spiritual ecology will provide the requisite spiritual nutrients” for growth (p. 48) and several chapters go in depth exploring kingdom growth as described in the Bible using plant ecology and the human body ecosystem (Paul). As Christians, we are expected to mutually assist each other” (p. 66) even in digital ecologies. As I have personally experienced, and heard others describe, the work of the Holy Spirit connects believers across distance (p. 73). As Lowe and Lowe argue, critics of online community seem to contradict orthodox Christian theology” regarding the communion believers enjoy with Christ through the Spirit” (p. 73) by suggesting that community cannot happen online. Lowe and Lowe make the Scriptural case that in fact, Biblical spiritual growth can happen at a distance through the work of the Holy Spirit. Lim, J. (2019). Book review: Ecologies of faith in a digital age: Spiritual growth through online education . Journal of Research on Christian Education, 28 (1), 84-87, doi: 10.1080/10656219.2019.1593009 Your Turn What challenges do you face in faith-based online learning? What do you think we can learn from Paul, as one of the first distance missionaries (think of all his letters as distance education)? What have we learned from research on online communities that connects to spiritual growth online? Feel free to comment! Share this: Tweet Print Email More Pocket Share on Tumblr Reddit Published by Janine Lim , in Online Learning . Leave a reply Book Published: Adventist Online Education: Realizing the Potential February 4, 2019 I’m excited to announce the publication of a new book! Adventist Online Education: Realizing the Potential . It is a collection of research papers presented at the 2017 Adventist Online Learning Conference , edited by yours truly and Anthony Williams. I encourage you to check out the book. Hopefully you will find it useful in your online learning work. Below you can find the description from the back of the book. This collection of research by Adventist online educators will be useful to many online educators, including those interested in the intersection of faith and online learning, and online learning in faith communities. This research spans four major areas of online delivery: (1) the pursuit of Adventist distinctiveness and the Adventist experience within online delivery, applicable to all those considering the connection between the mission of an institution and it’s online delivery; (2) the empowering and enabling of students, staff, and faculty for advising, monitoring, and resourcing quality online experiences; (3) the power of technology to support collaboration among our institutions, our faculty, our teams; and (4) the supports, training, and methods needed for the effectiveness of online delivery. If you are an administrator, online program director, or teach in an online program, this book will serve as a professional resource that can help ensure that...