Introducing yourself at class start and having students use a tent name will help in maintaining student names and call or pronaounce them correctly. It will also help other students get to know eachother.

Planning out the day and getting an early start is essential to how successfull your day will be.

I found the statement that you are not the smartest in the class to be true. No one is perfect and there is always opportunity for growth and learning no matter who you are or how old you are.

Its important to keep the students engaged to elimimate alienantion and drop out

its been interesting learning the asynchronous and synchronous differences and how to approch them differently

I think a great wat to project your presence and authority is to speak from the heart with your educational experience, work expererience and any hobbies related to the field of education you are trying to teach. Students look to their instructors and seeing there experience and background helps them overcome any obsticals and allows them to be successfull.

It was interesting to see how the course was broken down into a tree like system and knowlege of the CMS system along with the ability to support the sudents is key to success.