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Amanda Chambers
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I love the concepts that were discussed in this course! My question is how do you apply these concepts in an online setting? I, of course, give grade feedback when I upload grades. But we don't have quizzes. I interact in the discussion forum but I want to reach out to them more. I send emails, but I don't want to bombard them with emails. Any suggestions on how to establish contact as a way of motivating online students?
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In writing courses we often equip our students with graphic organizers for the brainstorming step in the Writing Process. However, students receive more information than just the Writing Process. For example, my students tend to grasp the concept of the Writing Process with little problem but they struggle with understanding APA format. Any suggestions on the type of graphic organizer that would work for this topic? Or would structured notes be a better option for this topic? All suggestions are welcome!
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The portion of this section about students and age issues really hit home. In the past I have had students question my ability to teach them because of my age. I became a college professor at the age of 28. Now, at the age of 32, I am younger than a lot of my students. In addition, I'm still younger that the parents of my younger students. I kind of sit between a rock and a hard place. While I am completely competent in my ability to teach them, I shy away from posting my picture to our course portal… >>>
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No, unfortunately I can't add or take away points. They are already configured for the classes I teach.
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My classes are quite diverse when it comes to how students communicate with each other. I've been teaching online for just about a year now. Luckily, I have yet to run into any arguments or inappropriate student behavior. However I have noticed that some students are more, well, talkative than others. This was always the case in my F2F classes, but students could see who would converse and who wouldn't in those classes; it's significantly harder to do that online. I see some of the more gregarious students trying to engage the less talkative students and often the more gregarious… >>>
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The courses I teach are 6 weeks long. Students get a lot of information during that time and I try to be as available as possible. We have online live chats twice a week but since they are not required, they don't have high attendance rates. I was thinking about creating an IM account and saying that I'll be signed on for questions at a certain time on certain days. Do you think this is a good idea? If so, which IM host is best? I use Facebook chat but that's about it. Do people still use Yahoo! or AOL chat?
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I see the stress caused by each environment and how type of stress is unique to its environment but what happens when those environments are not separate? I teach online, so my work environment is my home environment and vice versa. While I do not think I am overly stressed, what happens if I do become stressed? How do I separate the two or is there a special way that those who work from home have to approach stress?
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I used to be a slight procrastinator. It was never bad enough that I didn't get my work done or was up all hours trying to finish on time; it was just that sometimes I would put tasks off that I knew I could be doing. Well, I recently had a baby (she's 2 1/2 months old now) and now I face the obstacle of immediacy. I try to finish everything all at once because I don't want to run out of time. I teach online and stay at home with my daughter. We are just now, in the last… >>>
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