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So far I am impressed with the course. I woul like to get everyone's thoughts on it as well.

When looking at the rhetorical element of audience what can we as writers do to impact and include audience memebrs? Does a review of the audience demographic help? Why or Why not?

Hi!
If you teach a fully online class, what is a good way to target kinesthetic learners?

In one of my classes I give them a practical assignment out in real life and have them come back and share their experience in the discussion board. I am wondering, how others do this.

Thanks!

Hi!
I have created multiple online courses, where I mimicked what I did when I was teaching on-ground.

When teaching on ground I would never use power points, I always would draw and write on the board, giving my students good notes to take home and study from.

I found it effective when I did exactly the same for my online courses: I have recording video lectures, where I wrote and drew on the screen, as if on a whiteboard. Most students really like this format, because they feel that it's almost the same as sitting in a classroom and taking notes from a lecturing professor, with an added benefit of being able to pause, rewind, replay, etc.

We do have mandatory discussions that go with each lecture, and they are based on what was covered in the video lecture, so students have to watch them to answer the posed questions, provide their thoughts, opinions, and/or feelings on the subject. Overall, I say, the engagement with the class is pretty good.

Hello Everyone,

I teach a variety of medical classes and we have a lot of different elearning environments because we have to incorporate EHR software into the learning environment.

Tricia

Do you find cell phones are a help or hindrance?

Hello,

I normally do not incorporate hyperlinks in my course content. After completing this learning activity it seems like it would be a very good option form my students to retrieve their supplementary reading materials instead of uploading them in the Doc Sharing blog.  I also love the fact that I can have a guest lecturer in the course by circulating a print-based version of what the lecturer would have said. The best part is that I can have the student email their questions to the guest. I love that idea. 

Prof. Cassandre Milien, MSN

How do you think it would be best to address the students that are always looking to put in the least effort and only approach an assignment in the 11th hour?

Then: multiple choice tests are not going to be used in blended courses?

I think that this aspect of giving students time to process information, will be restricted in West Coast University in the seven days of the correspondig week, or I'm wrong?

Please, anyone of you can give me specific examples of activities to be developed in the classroom, in such a way that the students could be motivated, and besides help to reinforce the dianamic learning process?

I was educated in a country where technology is in the hands of the government as an instrument of power. The Cuban people do not have access to information about what is happening in the world. And that's why I find it more difficult than any other of you, to master the computer tools. On the other hand I will use computer tools that students master much better than me. We are facing a generation that technology is part of their games, their daily entertainment, and handle it as easily as if it were incorporated into their chromosomes. However, my generation has the strength of making use of mathematics as a logical method of thinking. I know that it will not be easy for me to incorporate the technology, but I know that for them it is and will be more difficult to incorporate the logical thinking as we do.  So, using their technological tools to help them in the cognitive process, is the great strength of this method that we are going to use. And I hope that it will work better than the tradicional face to face method, and the hybrid one.

I am interested in how to incorporate portfolios into science learning.  This is the one area I would like to focus on as I progress through blended applications. Any suggestions?

I have found that I have learned more about the topics I teach as an instructor than as a student.  I utilize this in my classroom.  The students work in small groups practicing the concepts.  When I mentor one of the students in the group, I have them do the same for the other members.

As  an instructor of blended courses, I find the time management for blended courses to be overwhelming.  After a ten to twelve hour day teaching and 2 plus hours driving, I am not motivated to get on the computer at the end to respond to discussion responses.  I have no problem on my short work days.  Any suggestions on how to manage this aspect?