Catherine Gorman

So far this course has been strictly a refresher and review of concepts I have utilized in my teaching for years online. However, I signed up for this one because it spoke of student frustration and conflict management, which are issues I think we all can touch base with from time to time in training.

Course development is ever evolving and should be constantly reviewed after the initial development to make sure that the resources given continue to work and the course continues to meet both the objectives and the needs of the students.

I currently use interactive lectures that are done in real time but really liked the idea of problem solving lectures that create a "treasure hunt" for students to participate in to learn the objectives.

I was given a good reminder of how valuable guest lecturers can be -- even in the online environment -- and way to organize those efforts.

It makes perfect sense that as the quality of the media used goes up so does the interaction and therefore the learning of students. I did not know however that correspondence courses first started in 1728! :) Pretty interesting.

I learned how much dominant blue personalities need to be of service to others so they would be more likely to actively participate in and enjoy peer review.

Again, no one fits into one clear cut category, which means that teachers have to be willing to use different methodologies and evolve as the class's needs evolve.

This section definitely did a much better job of defining the color traits so that these concepts no longer seem convoluted to me. All of these personality typing methods must show a measure of flexibility since I do believe that most people don't fall neatly into just one category.

I found Jung's work (already familiar through Myers-Briggs) and Kiersey's to be most informative; whereas, the color schemes seemed more convoluted to me.

We use portfolios in our capstone courses and I've always thought of them as potential tools to help the students build resources/ samples of their work that were industry specific to their major, but I never really thought about the fact portfolios also evaluate what the students think is important to include.