ETAP640

Asynchronous:

discussion boards are nothing more than written text.  Voicethread gives users something interesting to talk about---pictures!  What's more, being able to actually hear one another makes digital communication through Voicethread much more personal. 

Possible topics include:

collecting a series of images

script out short opening comments for each image that include a question for viewers to consider.

promote conversation

not to lecture through pictures. 

students are crafting identities

informal social learning

working through personal values

With randomly generated homework problems, immediate feedback, and the opportunity to try again, students view the homework almost like a game with the challenge of getting all the problems correct. As a result, they seem to spend more time than with paper and pencil homework.

availability of many research materials on-line and through electronic databases to which libraries subscribe should enable students to access what they need from their homes or their dorms at time which are convenient to them

“capturing students’ beer time

streaming video versions of all lectures

our approach to students is to encourage students to do what works for them (but to be sure to do it!)

Access to the Internet has changed research possibilities. Students have access to much more information faster than in the past.

Hot links to articles and other readings

E-mail messages are quickly replacing the live visit to professors and probably encouraging more students to talk to professors since it is less scary to them to write rather than face professors face to face.

Searching for journal articles using electronic bibliographic databases has been a major time saver for students

electronic reserves at the library

Use of the Calendar in WebCT to promote planning by students. Can also use the Calendar to highlight particular content or web resources to be ready for in-class discussion. Remind students in different media such as in-class and on-line about the expected completion dates for projects. (Virginia Arp, Gannon University)

"2 hours outside to 1 hour in class

Some may be spending more time because they’re unfamiliar with the medium. Some may be spending more time because instructions for assignments are not well-written for online use Some may be spending more time because they want to: the assignments are more interesting. And so on. Depending on the reasons, “spending more time” may be a) a triumph, b) a problem to be fixed, c) a temporary situation to be endured.

Going 'paperless" has saved me much time on task

publisher of one of our texts provides a tutorial CD and website as well as online course support