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I share with my students that many times I learn as much from them as they might learn from me. As I am from the Baby Boomer generation, I admit I am not tech savvy, and have never used Twitter myself. However, my younger students do, and have encouraged me to sign up for this. I wish I had their energy!!

After taking the EL110 course, I was happy to learn about educational websites I was not previously aware of. For example, ITunesU, YouTube.Edu, TeacherTube, SchoolTube, and something else, photovoice. I cannot wait to check into some of these… >>>

I have not seen gaming used in my experience as an elearner or instructor. You-tube and other social media are great ways to share concepts, but not all students click each link and it is unclear whether it is advancing their learning. 

I agree that it is difficult to incorporate games into some courses. Unfortunately, it doesn't always fit.

It would be nice to have the resources to create new ways to engage students, especially in the online environment.

I feel that the online learning environment is just as important as in class learning. I utilize a little bit of class time to cover the discussion threads just in case there are students that have questions. This can increase student engagement and we can brain storm answers as a class.

The communication barrier that I come across is calling the students.  They receive so many calls from so many people who are trying to help however it becomes an issue because it's bombarding the student with so many calls.  When I try to communicate with the students about the course that are exhausted by the many calls and they are not willing to talk.  This limits my communication with them and I don't think that there should be so much communication.  It comes off as harassing.

I been teaching for about five years now abd I have to say that what has been working for me is that I contact my student using what I would say is a combination of the various ways to communicate with my students.  I use email and telephone to reach out to my students.  I do find myself texting a lot more.  I try to common Unisys the east that is best  for the student unless it's really unreasonable.

The more we integrate technoogy in the classroom the more relevant we are

I found the notation about coordinating office hours with due dates quite interesting.  We are a little backwards in this area. We are required to hold two hours per week of live/real time office hours so that we are available to students at defined times. However, our course unit due dates are Sunday midnight.  Very few, if any of us, are available Sunday night.  We should consider revising our unit due dates to Monday or Tuesday so that we can be available to students on those days.   Very few students show for office hours at the beginning of a unit, but… >>>

I think my biggest lesson learned from this course is the importance of setting the correct tone for effective communication at the beginning of the course while reflecting generational and personality differences.  

I have found the weighting of elements within a grading rubric to be a challenge.  No one wants to set a student up to fail and I have seen many rubrics that do just that.   With one or two letter grades being wiped away by a single mistake or deficiency.    What techniques have been used in the past to assure fair weighting of each element in the rubric while providing the instructor enough latitude to apply their discretion to the quality of the students work?

This course was informative. I especially enjoyed the use of ruberics and communicaiton protocol.

I found this class really interesting, I didn't understand how social media fit in with OInline Edcuation, but i can see that it expands the ways students can learn and provides new tools for learning. Liked this class a lot. 

I'm curious about other social networking sites, does anyone have some suggestions?

This course on social media and the classroom was a great eye opener. Often, I have wanted to include more of this into the classroom but have not had great development models and tools.  This course helped provide a great framework to learn from.

Just like any other networking site, Facebook does have length requirements when it comes to writing on the wall, status, message and comment sections. For instance, private messaging is used as an email within Facebook. Private messaging can come as an instant message (chat), or a regular email-type message. For instant messaging, there is a 5000 character limit. Regular messaging provides also 5000 character limit.

A Facebook status is another area that has a character limit as well. The limit for the status has been raised to 63,206 characters. Previously, it was 5,000 but it has been raised 12… >>>

Blogging and making proper use of Bloggs is the main responsibility of instructor. Proper guidance have to be given to students so that online netiquitte is followed. The instructor does set an example for students to follow.

Blogging is a excellent use of Social media. The responsibility falls on the instructor to set guidelines. It is important that proper online netiquitte is followed by students and instructor gives the proper directions to assure the thing sthat are poasted online.