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Archive for October, 2007

Facilitating Online Discussions

I love online class discussions. When I first started teaching online, I think I might have tried to respond to just about every student post. I wanted studentsto know I was there and reading what they’d written. Of course, I quickly learned to stop being so annoying! Still, as I serve on peer review teams [...]

Rich text format, please!

Many of my students are nowusing Windows Vista, which I understand is pretty impressive to use. The problem I’ve run into is when assignments are saved as word documents in Vista, they become impossible for anyone without Vista to open (.docx). I do inform my students in several areas of my courses that theymust save [...]

“Sharing What You Do Online” sessions

The first “Sharing What You Do Online” session spurred so much great discussion thatwe’ve decided to offer six or seven more yet this semester. The next three sessions are as follows:

Thursday, October 11 from 12:00-1:00 Amy Jo Swing will showcase her Comp II class. Amy Jo has been teaching online for ten or eleven years [...]