Mike Calendine

Communication is expected foremost from the faculty member. Students will get involved when they believe it is worth their time and effort.

Different media for different tasks....pleases top making long videos.  They are just not watched.

Your feedback will help or hinder their learning...simple as that.

Students have to be taught why this type of learning is beneficial to them and not just busy work to complete. 

Consistency is your friend.  I want to make a class that students feel comfortable in, that they they do not get anxiety in looking for stuff, yet intrigued enough about that they want to discover.

Faculty have got to give students a chance in multiple modalities to show critical thinking is enhanced.

Your safety net is your rubric.  If you decide to just use quantitative scoring and no comments, you will have nothing to fall back on when students questions your grades.  You have got to use the comments!

The biggest limitation is the students' beliefs about what is necessary  to learn and what is not.  They do not like discussion boards.

Please do not use the same comments for the students papers.  They will talk...you will feel silly.  Example, one time I called 3 people Steve...ugh.

Students need to understand the difference between their social networking and your professional networking....and the boundaries.  Also understand there will be some students (usually older) that do not want this in their class what-so-ever.