{"id":87,"date":"2013-10-27T03:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T03:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/?p=87"},"modified":"2013-10-27T03:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T03:12:38","slug":"week-8-creating-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/2013\/10\/27\/week-8-creating-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8: Creating Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we learned how important creating a community in our f2f or online classes is. What I love about my f2f classes is the close knit community that we build during the semester. How do I create community in my classes? I do a couple of things: 1) many, many group activities, 2) meet-ups \u00a0after class or before class in our study groups and 3) oral presentations\/<em>fiesta<\/em> (party), where we learn more about our fellow classmates. It&#8217;s a process from begin to end. It takes great effort to establish a strong community but once you have it, it&#8217;s well worth it.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the same approach can be taken in our online classes. Therefore, it is vital to begin on our first day of class. Here a voice-thread can be the perfect tool. You can ask students to introduce themselves by leaving a thread and comment on one or more threads. This can be a great opportunity for students to meet you as well. I know it works because I have used voicethread.com for my hybrid course.<\/p>\n<p>In our reading this week it mentioned that Myspace or Facebook can be great tools for (a)synchronous communication. This week I&#8217;ll be working on my Facebook for my Spanish classes. I also created an IM on Blackboard and I&#8217;m working on incorporating other tools into my classes, such as Skype and Screenr.<\/p>\n<p>I also think Pilar makes a great point. You need to make your online space inviting and pretty. As a student we want to feel welcomed and feel great in our environment, in our classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we learned how important creating a community in our f2f or online classes is. What I love about my f2f classes is the close knit community that we build during the semester. How do I create community in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/2013\/10\/27\/week-8-creating-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.miracosta.edu\/pmendoza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}