I am online many hours of the day. Since I work from home, I have my laptop running for close to 10-12 hours. Although I do not need to be logged in for that amount of time, it helps when keeping emails down. If I am tackling a tight deadline and am working feverishly to complete grades, commenting to DB forums, etc, I become frazzled if I forget to show my status as "offline". Then, I get several students who will instant messaging me. Usually at that time, I am slow to respond and request they email me. I have… >>>

Since I teach several of the same courses over and over, I always reuse my presentations. Usually I will modify or add more to it depending on what needs to be changed. Something else I do is allowing students to download the presentation for them to keep. Although they are able to attend live sessions and view the presentation, they are unable to download it while in live chat. There is a location I submit each and every presentation from the lectures I have given. The location is very familiar to the students; I also remind them by email and… >>>