It’s That Time . . .

As a class this semester, we explored various topics including tools for online teaching, the gamification of online classes, the migration process and modalities, best practices for discussion forums and grading, and even shared lens perspective assignments and approaches to keeping students engaged and learning/reading in the online setting. English Professors, John Warnock, curry mitchell, Jim Sullivan, and Tony Burman, facilitated these discussions, laying the groundwork for future online teaching. After completing this Spring 2016 sequence, I am inspired us to explore synchronous activities and, perhaps, to resuscitate my online avatar (I used a couple years when I was teaching online introductory composition). Most importantly, I discovered I did not have to comment on ALL my students posts and replies. (I am still feeling nervous about the latter one.)

What follow are my reflections this semester:

“Online Teaching? I Felt Like Jumping Out of a One-story Building” (Unit 1: A Framework for Teaching Online)

“The Locura or the Simplicity of Online Teaching” (Unit 2: Exploring Technology

“So You Do Not Understand the Directions . . . Hmm” (Unit 3: Developing Content)

“There Is Such a Thing as Too Much Feedback!” (Unit 4: Teaching the Writing Process Online)

“Do Online Students Learn? READ? WRITE? YEP!” (Unit 5: Reading and Discussion)

Not bad for a digital immigrant! 😉