Samantha Eaddy

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When developing an instructional style that works, I find it is not only important to know your topic, relay it well, but each classroom may require that you manage and motivate classes somewhat differently depending on how best to get students to where they need to be. Any help or suggestions in this area? Samantha Eaddy

Samantha Eaddy

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Shying Away from Portfolios and Projects

I have taught online classes where students prepared marketing and business plans. Each week, they would prepare different portions of the plans, and each week I made individual and thorough comments regarding such, and checked the following week to see if my corrections and comments were incorporated in the plan. Very time consuming. Therefore, I can see why instructors shy away from portfolios and projects.

Samantha Eaddy

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White Board Great Tool

I have used white boards while lecturing and have been able to print out the notes from the white board and provide them to students. This has been useful because when reviewing concepts using the white board, students often understand the notes and explanations written on the board better than those in the book or in the lecture notes. Providing them with print outs of the information also lessens the amount of time they spend taking notes and redirects their attention to the topic being discussed.

Samantha Eaddy

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Encountering students who are not tech savvy

It is true that many of those who take classes online use various online tools and are comfortable with them. However, I am now frequently encountering students who are going to school online because they cannot find time to do so on-ground, and they barely know how to save a computer file,perform tasks on computers one way, and do not understand simple functions such as uploading a document to the drop box, attaching a document to an email, chatting or instant messaging. Does anyone know best practices for getting these students where they need to be without scaring them off… >>>

Samantha Eaddy

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New ways to learn

With so many additional online tools to help facilitate online learning and hybrid learning and with greater awareness of the present generations regarding such, there are so many choices to help instructors better facilitate classes. I teach for more than one school and find that often the tools available in classrooms may need to be supplemented with adding learning tools that help students to learn. I think this is important when considering online learning.

Samantha Eaddy

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Students can help us o build curriculum

On a daily basis ways to improve processes are present. Often, we jump the gun on making improvements. However, by providing students with the opportunity to voice what works and doesn't work, we can avoid errors that are important to the learning process.

Samantha Eaddy

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Making Sure Your Course Structure Is appropriate

Developing academic activities can be tricky and will depend on the level of those being taught. Some students are more inclined than others. However, how can we structure the class so to accommodate the different levels of each student?

Samantha Eaddy

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Effective Use of Communication Tools

So much depend on communicating effectively with students in an online environment. Without such students tend to slip away and become distant. Each day challenges us to get students to see us as they would any on-ground instructor, except that we are there for them in an electronic environment. Therefore, I would like to know outside of videos, PowerPoints, discussion boards and blogs, are there other communication tools that you find are easy to incorporate into an online class and that are interactive?

Samantha Eaddy

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Authentic Assessment

Yes, when I taught an advertising class, students had to develop ad campaigns for television, radio and print media. These became a part of their student portfolio.

Samantha Eaddy

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Objective

Soemtimes writing a course so that it correctly reflects what a student should learn is challening. That is why it is crucial that tasks associated with courses are not just items created for the purpose of assigning grades. They must directly reflect of what students should have gained understanding.