This document discusses accommodating different learning styles in virtual spaces. It outlines objectives to help participants learn how emerging technologies can be used to accommodate individual learning styles and blend face-to-face and online professional learning opportunities. Several activities and technologies are presented, including using wikis, mind maps, and voice threads to recreate face-to-face activities. Participants are asked to reflect on how the different technologies meet the needs of diverse learning styles.

1. Accommodating Learning Styles
inVirtual Spaces

2. Introductions
 AndreaTejedor
 Director ofTechnology
 Highland Falls CSD
 atejedor@hffmcsd.org
 tejedor.andrea@gmail.com
 You
 Name
 School District
 Role in district

3. Objectives
 Participants will learn how individual learning styles can be
accommodated through the use of diverse emerging
technologies.
 Participants will learn how multiple technologies can be
blended with face-to-face meetings to create powerful
professional learning opportunities

4. “Seeing is Believing”

5. Index of Learning Styles
 What type of learner are you?
 Active or Reflective
 Sensing or Intuitive
 Visual orVerbal
 Sequential or Global
 How did your learning style play a role in the first activity?

6. Learning Styles in PBWorks
 Face-to-FaceActivity: Population Estimation
 How can we re-create this activity in an virtual learning
environment?
 How does the wiki meet the needs of diverse learning
styles?

7. Learning Styles in Mindmeister
 Face-to-FaceActivity: Brainstorming and Comparing
 How can we re-create this activity in an virtual learning
environment?
 How does Mindmeister meet the needs of diverse learning
styles?

8. Learning Styles inVoiceThread
 Face-to-FaceActivity: Sharing and Reflecting
 How can we re-create this activity in an virtual learning
environment?
 How doesVoiceThread meet the needs of diverse
learning styles?

9. Wrap-Up & Reflections
 Summary of the technologies
 “Syntax Box”
 Where do we go from here?