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Common Question I: ONLE Please justify why your unit integrating ONLE, not just distributed learning (DL) or online learning environments (OLE). Be sure to distinguish ONLE from DL and OLE. Provide the examples from your unit to justify your responses.

 One of the classes I teach is Journalism.  This is as class that can only benefit from collaboration.  Using an ONLE for this would be helpful for many reasons, not the least of which is conserving resources (paper, toner, etc.).  By using a wiki, the students can easily contribute to each other's work.  Normally in a writing class, students would create something on paper and interact only with the instructor.  Using ONLE, students can interact and learn from each other.  The unit I am proposing is the first unit students will complete in the class.  

Common Question II: Key Instructional Strategies Please discuss how you integrate the required ONLE instructional strategies (Social network, social tagging, participatory web, UGC, and Community-Community interaction).

Community Community:  Students will create criteria for determining whether a news story is "important".  Students will post this on the Classroom Wiki to have it available for future classes.  It is unclear whether or not future classes could interact back as they may be at a different school by then. UGC:  Students are creating their own definitions of what is newsworthy.  They are generating their own content in this way. Participatory Web:  Students are creating a wiki together.  They will be interacting with each other and the wiki.

Common Question III: Evaluations Discuss how do you know your integrated ONLE instructional strategies effective? Remember assessing content is different from assessing instructional strategies.

I think you can really tell if your strategy is effective by how well the class proceeds.  If the students are constantly lost and haven't been using the tools provided appropriately, then your strategy does not work.  For my particular lesson, I would know that it was effective if the students take part in discussions and successfully complete their assignments.  The bottom line of any strategy should be to facilitate the learning of the content.  So, it stands to reason that if they get the content and complete the project, the strategy has worked.