For some reason this week was my favorite discussion. The discussion was to surround Ahas from Bender or from the web conference we were formatively evaluating. We covered lot of good and important topics:
How to incorporate social and web 2.0 tools
Should ice breakers be used?
Individual student contact.
Maintaining the same focus, pace the whole course
Tailoring to students needs and wants
Tone and purpose
The two most important topics to me were generated by David Sprouse and Lesley Wallace.
David's post was regarding tone and moved into purpose. Sometimes online courses are too formal and it leaves the students out, but other times the course is to laid back and doesn't fit the purpose. It's important to match the two when planning a course.
Lesley started a thread that focused on finding out what the students need and want out of the course. I agreed to this and also stated that the students need to feel like individuals in that class, it's very easy to get lost in the crowd in an online class.
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