Your online voice: How can you set the tone? By:Martha Vasquez, Nov 1st, 2003 http://www.eschoolnews.com/2003/11/01/your-online-voice-how-can-you-set-the-tone/
This article examines the need to not only create your own online style, but to help your students to do the same thing. It is important for everybody to properly socialize within the online environment. Everybody must obide by the norms, feel like they are a part of the group and contribute positively. Sometimes this will require extra personal attention from the instructor. It explains how students can have difficulty, because their normal body language and demeanor are not present.
Again this is just good practices, no matter what environment you are in. It is common sense strategies to help students socialize in the correct manor. It does, however, offer some ideas that are specific to students that are approaching online learning for the first time. In a way this may be an easier task when online, because the playing field is level (looks, fashion and demeanor are not a major factor). It allows students to have a fresh slate.
I would recommend this article, again, because it is just good practice.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Icebreakers
Icebreakers By: Virgil E. Varvel Jr. January/February 2002 - http://www.ion.illinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2002_01/index.asp
This article Gives some good strategies for using Icebreakers in an online environment. It examines activities that serve different purposes, such as pre-assessments and getting to know your peers, yet works to help set up an envirinment that brings people closer together as mutual stkeholders.
I was interested in how many activities would work even without a face to face component. I was amazed at how many of these Icebreakers that I had used in the classroom without calling them icebreakers. I did learn a lot about using them to transition.
I think that these are a total necessity in the online world, because they add some levity and allow for some social interaction. When are we going to take part in one during this class?????
This article Gives some good strategies for using Icebreakers in an online environment. It examines activities that serve different purposes, such as pre-assessments and getting to know your peers, yet works to help set up an envirinment that brings people closer together as mutual stkeholders.
I was interested in how many activities would work even without a face to face component. I was amazed at how many of these Icebreakers that I had used in the classroom without calling them icebreakers. I did learn a lot about using them to transition.
I think that these are a total necessity in the online world, because they add some levity and allow for some social interaction. When are we going to take part in one during this class?????
Bridging the Divide: From Outsider to Insider in Online Learning
Bridging the Divide: From Outsider to Insider in Online Learning By: Janice Holman, Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 http://www.cvc.edu/2007/03/bridging-the-divide-from-outsider-to-insider-in-online-learning/
This article Goes into detail about the things that can cause online participants to tune out or to tune into their online classes. It examines the kind of elements that are necessary for learners to find a sense of self and to trust others in that environment so that they may take the risks associated with sharing.
The thing that I thought was funny about this article is that even though it dealt with online environments it seemed like practices that could be used in any situation either face to face or online. It just seems like good practices to create a sharing environment for your class. Much of these things we do naturally in the classroom, but probably wouldn't have thought about for an online class. This Moodle class should take some tips and hints from this module.
I would recommend this article to any educator. It is my experience that "naturals" don't even have to think about these things because they do them naturally, but there are many who could use the approaches whether for an online class or for a conventional one. They are just good practices.
This article Goes into detail about the things that can cause online participants to tune out or to tune into their online classes. It examines the kind of elements that are necessary for learners to find a sense of self and to trust others in that environment so that they may take the risks associated with sharing.
The thing that I thought was funny about this article is that even though it dealt with online environments it seemed like practices that could be used in any situation either face to face or online. It just seems like good practices to create a sharing environment for your class. Much of these things we do naturally in the classroom, but probably wouldn't have thought about for an online class. This Moodle class should take some tips and hints from this module.
I would recommend this article to any educator. It is my experience that "naturals" don't even have to think about these things because they do them naturally, but there are many who could use the approaches whether for an online class or for a conventional one. They are just good practices.
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