Jennifer,
Thank you for your organized thoughts and for adding to the conversation. When you speak of organized objectives and clear expectations, they go hand in hand. Meeting the course objectives/outcomes lay the foundation for what is expected from the students. As you note though - communication is the key.
Edutainment is a work that keeps coming up over and over again. It's many times hard to get everything done that you need to do in the class and keep students attention all the time.
Nice job.
