Tara Gibbs-Tokarski

I have never taught online yet, but I have taken many a class, and the ones where the information links have changed are the most frustrating. How would you go about keeping those links updated.

I also like to put my demonstration on the smart board. I do the demo, then I open the power point where I took pictures of myself doing each phase. They can follow along on the smart board or go off the demo the just watched. The homework is to do it again and practice at home. With my demo as a power point too, they can go back and look at it later.

I love the idea of a test the first day, but I think I will do it like an interview. I usually have my students ask random questions to another student and then introduce them to the rest of us. But maybe I will form it like a group test. What do you think?

One of the management tools I noticed we always did at big meetings was the introduction of the members. I took that step into my class room. First I go over all the information in the syllabus, then I do the ice breaker. Where the students are paired off with their neighbor, they then ask each other questions pertaining to what field they want to go into, along with some fun question like favorite color. This always warms everyone one up and I follow that activity with showing them their tool kits. I have their complete attention after that activity.

As someone in the creative field, my dress codes would look different form the business professional. Not only am I an art professional, but a Fashion Design professor. What types of modifications to dress code would be appropriate for that field.