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Making the Most of Your High School Budget: How AlwaysOnline™ Can Help your School do More with Less As a high school administrator, you are constantly challenged to provide a high-quality education to your students while working within a tight budget. Between hiring and retaining quality teachers, purchasing new textbooks, and implementing new technologies, it […]
Teachers: Why and How to Flip your Classroom Flipped learning, also known as the flipped classroom, is a teaching model that has been shown to greatly benefit you and your students. In this approach, traditional in-class lectures are replaced by self-paced learning activities outside the classroom, while class time is used for hands-on activities, discussions,
Flipping Classrooms with AlwaysOnline™ Online Curriculum For Flipping classrooms and Improving Academic Outcomes Welcome to AlwaysOnline™, the online curriculum for schools with private-labeled learning management system (LMS) that brings the benefits of the flipped classroom approach to high schools across the country. We understand that the world of education is rapidly changing, and we’re here
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As an accredited school, SVHS has been bestowed powers by the state of Nevada to award high school diplomas to students who satisfy the state criteria. As an online private school, our students can attend from anywhere in the world, or anywhere they can get an Internet connection, which is virtually everywhere in the world.
In the late 1990’s I built a web browser and online service for kids called SurfMonkey. It was possibly the first Internet-enabled app, designed to open the Internet to kids, making the experience fun, safe and easy. I was convinced that the world wide web would become the world’s biggest library and the most valuable
A website builder is a software application or online platform that allows users to create and design a website without the need for manual coding. Website builders today typically provide a variety of templates and drag-and-drop tools that make it easy for users to customize the layout and design of their website. Some website builders
When we set up our online education platform here at Silicon Valley High School in 2013, we were operating with a dedicated physical server running in a colocation data center. This was a good solution, until we had to upgrade the server. At that point, we had to migrate all our software and data to
The backbone of our education technology platform is Moodle, an open source learning management system. More accurately, you will see that we built our own learning management system using source code from the Moodle community. A learning management system (LMS) is a software platform that enables organizations to create, manage, and deliver online courses and
As I embark on this education technology blog, discussing how technology can be harnessed to provide a more effective and efficient form of online education, I decided to start with the fundamental software development platform and discuss open source and the LAMP stack. Here at Silicon Valley High School, we haven’t always been dedicated to
Writing this during the 2023 winter storms, I am sitting in my study at home with the heater in my room set to a cozy 68 degrees. As I look out of the window, there’s about 3 feet of snow and ice covering everything from “freezing rain”–something I didn’t realize was a thing until today.
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