This is a contestable claim. What is meant by the pulse of society?

Do you mean the latest information about the Kardashians? It seems questionable that microblogging

accomplishes the kind of edifying discourse you assume it allows people to engage in.

• Plan for discomfort when traditional roles and structures of classroom authority are disrupted
• What does this mean?

Yes, but there is also the danger of encountering nonsense (which many people are attracted to) and offensive material very easily.

One has to be careful that there use of Twitter is not another excuse to see one's education as a form of entertainment. 

Where is the sustained inquiry when reading people's brief explanations on a twitter page? There isn't any.

Technology is here to stay and ongoing.  I learned that it is imparative that I must learn in order to succeed.  There is no more "I'm too old for this" or "I'm going to conduct my class the old-fashion way".  Not only do I need to learn how to operate and navigate, but I also need to learn how to foster the relationship with my students through technology.  I will embrace technology with an open-mind in order to be successful professionally as well as personally.

I am excited to import some of the knowledge that I have received through this training and use it with my online classes. 

Do you know the three aspects of a Wellness Module and how it effects you personnaly? Discussing your personal Wellness Module with your peers brings about personal accountabilty and progress. Engaging in a discussion about your goals for your wellness Module will produce better results and peer involvement and sharing your progress or inhibitions of having an effective wellness module.

Keeping a journal and continual evaluation of your three ares to work on (Mind, Body and Spirit) will keep you moving in a positive direction. Being stagnant or unaware of these areas can be roadblocks to success. 

As a massage… >>>

creating duos or three somes to tie together ideas from a lecture (10 min huddle) with 3 min to present to rest of group can often bring into play different uses of the information.

Try your hardest an bestest 

I am constantly teaching through interpreters. They are a key asset in an environment where you do not speak the language and English proficiency is low. Ideally interpreters should have early access to the lectures in order to familiarize with the content and the terminology. It is also good to work with the same interpreter over and over again, but often I am not able to influence it. Working through interpreters takes more time.

In order to engage online learners, you will have to take what you do in the traditional classroom, and modify it for online instruction. Teaching is what we do, whenever, however and  wherever we are.

Make sure that all content is relevant and course related.

There were a lot of components to digital communication I was not formally aware of, such as the ARCS stuff and the sequence response method.  I will probably incorporate a lot more dissecting to the electronic communications I craft in the upcoming semester.

As I try to nurture my students to seek learning for the sake of new knowledge as their motivation, I think the transition from last quarter's lack of grades as the motivation they have been trained to respond to, back toward the conventional grading system will bring back the extrensic motivation and hopefully make it easier to build up opportunities for students to discover intrensic motivation for learning engagement.

Since switching mid-March 2020 to all online, I've learned that communicating content in the classroom, especially in a public speaking course, is vastly different from online. Breaking up the presentation and content into 15-minute segments is most important since students clearly are tuning out. In the classroom, a PowerPoint presentation lecture/discussion can work well if enough students participate in reflecting on the ideas, relating them to textbook readings, and responding in front of their peers. Online students, like I, are staring at tiny video windows where there's a clear distance among learners. Breakout rooms in Zoom can help correct the… >>>

I learned so much taking this wonderful course along with learning from my peers by reading and reviewing their comments through each module.

I will make sure that my courses are coherent and structuredand well organized along with putting in an extra effort into ensuring that students understand what is expected of them. Sending regular whole class communications is essential.

Some student snags may occur but I will remain responsive to their individual needs and as a whole for my entire class. I love to ask students to lead discussions to get their perspective as well to evaluate how much… >>>

I plan to have a menu option for my course this year, since many students will be learning fom home.  I will have hard deadlines and due dates, with clear consequences, but I will give students a variety of activities to choose form.  My lectures will be interactive so that my social students will get credit for participating.  I plan to use video clip options for my introvert students to participate with more unanimity. Getting students to actually engage in the lessons is going to be a big challenge this year.  Understanding personality traits and motivations, both the students traits… >>>

I have learned that games and simulations will be a wonderful addition to tmy classroom.  Especially in the place of pop quizes or when too many warm-ups have been used, and a game would be a welcome change.  Pop quizes drop the students score quickly and I only come away knowing that they could answer the few questions I presented, and know all that the student knows or doesn't know.  I hope I can learn to create effective games.  I do not see that purchasing games will work with my departments budget.

I found this training very helpful in that it broke down the use of technology in an on line environment. The instructor needs to use appropirate technology for effective communication for the course at hand. Depending on the nature of the course being taught and the number of students will, in part, determine what types of technology the instructor will use. Another aspect of to include when determining the type of technology to be use is to make sure that  the students can perform the necessary function you desire for appropirate and effective communication. Although a technology tool may have… >>>

Sometimes the best training is on the job training. In my case, I would like to have a more comprehensive understanding of the process involved between administration, teachers, students. For example: how does it all work and what is the best line of defense if the student is not responding to your efforts. One way that I can implement an action plan is to express my interest to the Director of Online Training about my desire to know more about the steps involved in the process and perhaps she can show me the paper trail from enrolling the student to… >>>

For the 2020-2021 school year, I hope to try incorporating blogs into my curriculum. Some examples of blogging from this unit were:

• Students provide commentary on a research topic pertinent to the course.
• Students develop a central point for text, images, and links to other blogs.
• Students develop an interactive format to explain the subject matter.
• Students develop tools for social advocacy pertinent to their field of study.
• Students become cognizant regarding real-time, real-life scenarios like catastrophes.