Today is the offical start date of my summer online course, etap687. It is a master’s level fully online course at UAlbany in the education department. If you are interested, here is a link to a tour of the course. I also have a cool prezi presentation that i am currently doing about my experiences [...]

cool… nervous… almost done, but not quite.
It doesn’t officially start till May 27th.
Still figuring out how students will get access. How they will create their shells. Working on their template… that is not working at the moment. And still working on rubrics.

14 students enrolled so far… i am thinking about the course going live on the 13th and the communications i need to send out. Welcome note with : link to course… (not really sure how students will know where the course is… i did put a note and link and video welcome in the BB course shell… [...]

the course starts next week. i feel overwhelmed with the responsibility of making this course good and of making it a good, positive and meaningful experience for the students. I have so much that still needs to be worked out. 

All my rubrics…
Trying to figure out how to foster, encourage, elicit, design for high quality interaction [...]

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? [...]

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…

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 [...]

I have been playing around with jing for screencasting, slideshare, and made a youtube video welcome for the course.
check it out! http://screencast.com/t/3P0pV2El

trying to figure it out…

have to use firefox on the mac, can’t use safari.
how to embed widgets – for twitter and meebome.
how to use surveys
how to add guests
what blocks to use

i need a mid…

i wish i had a mid for the development of this course. someone i could call to tell them what i need to do, or what moodle is doing and that could tell me how to do it or get it to do what i need.