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my criteria for evaluating whom to follow on twitter

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I have been using twitter since December 2007… so waaaay before Oprah and it going mainstream. In fact, i am not sure i like everyone and their brother talking about it and doing it…it kinda makes me cringe when the local news anchor mentions twitter to sound hip and with it, but it is in [...]

best intentions

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So i had every intention of blogging through the delivery of this course…but so far i have had no time. The course is in its third week and i am still trying to figure out how to use the grading features and trying to keep up with it all. I am trying to be a [...]

jitters

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so my course has started… 14 enrolled, so far there are 9 that have shown up. One has dropped
i am concerned about several things.
I am not confident that i know exactly how certain things in the course are going to work – the gradebook, the discusion ratings. I just discovered how to make a custom [...]

assumptions i have about online faculty motivation

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i have “trained” more than 3,000 online faculty since 1995. Twice a year, almost from the first year, i have had an average of about 300 faculty in my online conference for new online instructors. that is about 10% of the total number of faculty in SUNY, that is also the national average of number of faculty [...]