Michelle Connors

Comment on Kalie Griffy's post: Engagement and varitey is key to keep students interested

To share some of your personal info with students, it can create a connection/bond. Keep information short, with explanations.

For the best learning outcomes we need to have students engagement in the class by having some lecture with students discussions, short questions for understanding of topics, group works with presentations.

There are many tools out there but they are of no use unless you know how to use the. Not all tools fit everybody and different types of people will use different types of tools and sometime find a different function for it instead of its function. Online technology can be very valuable to an instructor

The course made me think

I enjoyed the course overall, some of the questions did not follow with the video

I had just listened  to a TED talk so it was interesting  because then I read "We would all benefit from learning how TED talks are crafted".    This is useful because the primary goal is to change us, through education, and not primarily via edutainment.  If we want students to learn they only learn in the first 18 mins.

On the first day of class it is important to give a good impression

Being prepared to teach the class. The content, tone and delivery of asking questions is to encourage student participation in a group discussion. 

Michelle Connors

Lead by example, dress professional, be clean, by on  time, be prepared. Greet your students. Know your subject. be excited about what you teach. Add humor if you can.