…as I design and teach “Intro to Online Teaching”

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if i am doing most of the work… who is doing most of the learning?!

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I am trying to practice what i preach. present, engage/interact, assess. it is harder than it sounds. Pacing, sequencing, spreading the work out over 12 weeks and making sure they have enough time to do all the activities and trying to find a balance of activities in each module… will i let them work ahead? [...]

simplify man!

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trying to keep it simple and consistent. trying to practice what i preach.

why does everything have to take so many clicks!

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stressed… you can’t duplicate documents easily… why does moving stuff around have to be so disorienting… you can’t make global changes… i am finding this very frustrating…i have so much to do.

grading…

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trying to figure out how to cultivate quality interaction and performance in a pass/fail course. I need to provide a grading scheme that will help students to know how to succeed in the course and to offer compelling enough reasons to do more than just pass…

cooltools

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Here was my top 10 list of cooltools in february 2008

twitter – http://twitter.com – microblog, community of practice, communication, support.
Second Life – https://secure-web14.secondlife.com/join/- to create your avatar. There are no costs associated with Avatar creation. – user created virtual reality. I am interested in its potential as a an extension of the educational institution for [...]

diigo?

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diigo for etap687. I believe there is something very powerful  in this tool. I am in the process evaluating it for instructional and professional development purposes.
So far these are my thoughts:

I think I can easily mark up online student work with this tool.
I think online students can mark up each other’s online work with this [...]