Ewan McIntosh is a teacher, speaker and investor, regarded as one of Europe's foremost experts in digital media for public services. He has been an educator for over 25 years and has some interesting articles and personal reflections on his blog
The focus of NL Connect is for sharing and discussion among educators. It was started by author Alan November and his team to give educators interested in teaching and learning with technology to share and collaborate. He is the author of the book Web Literacy for Educators which is the basis of my online class.
I feel that assisting online learners in a course is very important to keep them from being frustrated and spending too much on the technology and not enough time on the learning. I find that I have to deliver one-on-one help in my online class to teachers who are not as tech savvy as others.
Designs the structure of the course and the presentation of the content to best enhance student learning, including using unit/lesson overviews and reviews, using patterns in lesson sequencing, and using appropriate visual web design techniques (SREB C.14, Varvel V.F)
I feel that course design and presentation are very important. Using good desing techniques helps the student to become more focused on content and better able to organize thoughts. If a site is too hard to follow visually, it can be confusing, distracting and frustrating, especially for novice online learners or technology learners.