Kelly Wilkinson

Dale, I agree with you. The more redundancy the more coverage. I hope you are not burning yourself out! Please make sure that you set your work/classroom hours for online students. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Helena, I really like what you posted about looking at growth over time. That is the beauty of journals or blogs. Sometimes we get caught up with the individual entries but not looking at the all of the entries holistically. Thank you make a note of that! Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Helena, Kudos to you for trying the method. You learned from it and you will take that knowledge and apply it to the next course. I agree, when you don't make it worth a student's time i.e. points, they won't do it. Twitter has so many good things to teach our students! Good luck! You will succeed. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Helena, I agree with you. That is a great strategy. You are also setting the tone for how they interact in other online courses. (No pressure on you :)) Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

Helena, I agree with you. It also provides us as educators to create a framework for us to gauge our teaching also! Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

MARIE, How lucky are you to have that support? You make a great point Marie, you need to find someone you can talk to regarding teaching online. It may be a discussion board, blog, or a on ground group but it does help. Just answering these questions in this forum helps me teaching online. Also, ask students what made them successful in the course at the end of the course then use that to help your students and to help you improve your course. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

MARIE, I agree. I also that analogy also. I will tell students that if they had been my employee I would have fired them due to lack of engagement. Grades are earned, I don't give them and students don't just get them. It does help students put activities in the class in perspective. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

MARIE, It can be frustrating when students don't use the tools you provide them. You could have them sign the rubric saying they read the rubric and understand the expectations. I have done that just to make a point. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

MARIE, Great post! You are right, you have to make sure that respect is practiced by both student and instructor. That will go long way in working with students to achieve high expectations. Dr. Kelly Wilkinson

MARIE, You need to find and/or develop resources that will help students make the adjustment to the technology and to gain confidence. Small successes with technology goes a long ways for technology confidence for both student and instructor! Dr. Kelly Wilkinson