Marie Moran

I do believe we will soon submit verbal social media responses in the online classroom. Social media and technology are changing rapidly. For example, with What's App, we can either text or talk to each other. This application is used by many individuals to communicate between boarders, such as the someone living in New York speaking or texting someone living in Argentina. Its free communication whereas in the past long distance charges would be collected for overseas calls. Many students struggle financially and would benefit by using What's App to communicate with their instructors, the school and classmates.

I really enjoyed reading your post and love the example of schoolwork. We cannot let up on schoolwork because it can get overwhelming just as anything we let up on. Everything is connected with our success such as time management, positive self talk and making the right choices. Our book states "Even with S.T.A.R. goals in place, at some point we all come up against things that threaten to derail us, whether it's a situation, person, event, our own fears, doubts, or even an immediate desire that conflicts with our long term plan for ourselves. How can we be sure to… >>>

Once we had a student suffering from seizure disorder attending a ground campus. The student suffered seizures on a weekly basis. Naturally, this disrupted the class for sometime until the medics arrived to attend to this student. Afterwards the class would resume. The time other students lost in class began adding up due to the weekly disruptions. What would you recommend for this type of situation in which too many disruptions are going on and students are not getting the lecture time they paid for? What responsibility does the Instructor have?

Marie

At times I go through classes with a large percentage of students who seem to be disengaged. Even though I call and leave messages many of them do not respond. They only participate in class by completing their work. I hold live labs each week yet almost never have a student show up, and if one does, it is always the same student. I love teaching, but as the saying goes.......the teacher appears when the student is ready.

Marie

I believe grades should be posted within 48 hours. Like this we keep students active in class. I tool usualy complete grading by Tuesdays for those last minute students who turn in work at the last minute (Sunday 11:59PM). I grade assignments, tests and discussions througout the week, so I don't have a set day/s to grade. It is an ongoing item for me.