Tena Crews

About me

Stealth Consulting, LLC

Consultants: Tena B. Crews & Kelly Wilkinson

Our mission is to train business personnel and educators in the areas of:

1) providing content, whether for educational or informational purposes, in a blended or pure online environment;
2) assessment in online/e-learning;
3) additional areas as deemed necessary.

Interests

online learning, design and assessment

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Teaching Online Course

Edwin, Ah - the syllabus. Many times it is the first point of communication and is so important. It serves many purposes as you pointed out. Thanks!

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Teaching Online Course

Dr. Cecil, You have a great list of things that impact the scaffolding of learning. Thanks for bringing them all to our attention.

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Teaching Online Course

Laurie, Yes, these revolve around the students. Who they are, what they want to learn and what they need to achieve. Thanks!

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Collaboration and Workload Strategies

Stephanie, I agree that we all need a break. We want to try and prevent becoming a 24-7 instructor. Making sure our students know when we will be checking email and discussion boards, etc. is essential as well. Thanks for your input.

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Workload Management and Time Management

Stephanie, It depends on what type of assignments you are grading. When I grade writing, I typically grade for one thing at a time. For example, I'll grade for format only or I'll grade for content only or spelling only. You may have to see the document more than once, but the grading goes more quickly. Also, any tests/quizzes you can automate through the LMS for automatic grading is a time saver. I also use peer-evaluation. The students are assigned a peer to grade their work using the rubric and then they can edit the information before they submit it… >>>

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Workload Management and Time Management

Stephanie, Sounds like you have learned a lot in the past year. Keep up the good work. Grading is always an issue. Keep plugging away at it.

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Information Management Skills

Stephanie, Short videos work well, but accompanying text (written docs) are helpful. It's OK to keep them both to help student reach the learning outcomes. Nice job.

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Evaluating Rubrics

Traci, We do need to evaluate all rubrics after we use them and get input from the students to ensure the rubrics are measuring what they need to measure. Thanks for your input.

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Resources for Developing Rubrics

Sharon, We learn a lot from each other in these forums and searching the Internet for various resources. Nice job.

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Resources for Developing Rubrics

Traci, Great. Glad you are trying new things. We can learn a lot by researching and seeing what others do through their resources. Thanks!

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