David Penwell

An onine environment sounds much like a classroom environment with the different personalities.  I think by having policies in place before the class begins will difuse many problems.  Monitoring and resolving conflicts will take a different approach than in a regular classroom setting.

I thought it was interesting that there are different learning styles and discussion styles in an online classroom.  I like the discussion approaches and how we can use them in different classroom settings.

I like the idea of getting to know your students and sending welcome emails to each student at the beginning fo the course.  The biography is something I use in all of my classes, so this will fit perfectly in my online classes.

I like the idea that students will have all of the information presented to them at the beginning of the modue, but we can make adjustments to what the student has the ability to open.  In other words, we can struture our lessons so that the student must go through it step by step before they take the quiz or begin working on the final project