RICHMOND GYAMFI

Inasmuch as I love to give my students more materials, providing too many sources/links that do not supplement the instruction, or providing them just to give students more information if they happen to seek it out, may go against good workload management strategies. 

As online instructors, we must remember that collaboration affords students the opportunity to share thoughts and interact with peers but there needs to be a balance between designing that experience without being overwhelming as well.

The Leader-by-Example thing got me. I have to understand that students will take their lead from the instructor in the areas of visibility, organization, and compassion. The instructor sets the tone for the online learning community early in the course and maintains it until the final class.

It is very important to be a good time manager to be successful in any online teaching environment. Setting reminders, getting a schedule and keeping to the schedule will help a lot

I learnt about rubrics and their effectiveness. It is best to use them in assessments.They provide a measure of quality of performance on the basis of established criteria and benchmarks or samples that serve as standards against which student performance is judged.

I learnt about the Norm-referenced assessments and how they are used to compare a student's skills to skills of others within a particular group. They are most appropriate when the instructor wants to make comparisons across a large number of students.

If students are given diagnostic pre-assessments, it helps the instructor obtains information about their students. It gives the instructor prior knowledge, skills, and/or misconceptions before the course begins or before a learning activity. 

Getting feedback from students about assessment process provides information on whether or not the technology tools helped and what difficulties it caused them

I have learnt that as an instructor it is better to perform demonstrations in 5-7 steps only to keep students engaged. you should also practice these demonstrations before you do them in class

I have learnt that introducing yourself and your experience also has a lot to do with students feeling at ease in the first day of class and this can keep them going through the course. You also have to let them introduce themselves since you also have to know something about your students