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First Assignment – Contact
The Contact Assignment The first eLearning lesson module should include an exercise that will establish the first contact between the instructor and individual students and be due during the first few days of classes. Ideally this activity should take place while students can still get some tuition refunded (3rd Friday after classes begin) if they (or you) decide to drop them. The purpose of this assignment is to confirm that every student can: log into Blackboard or other course site understands how to get started in the course access their university email account overcome their technical difficulties What’s it look like? [Read On...]
What is Twitter? Twitter is a social networking platform that enables people to post short messages, under 140 characters, to the web. Over time, the original question that Twitter “asked” when you logged in has changed from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?” This is a bit closer to the reality of the way Twitter is used as the number of people using Twitter has exploded and the variety of uses to which it is put has become accordingly diverse, including: general social and topical conversation real-time event reporting (conferences, seminars, product announcements, breaking world news) “micro-blogging” of fresh links, [Read On...]
Blogs
What is a Blog? A blog is a website that displays information in reverse-chronological order. Blogs can have single or multiple authors. Blogs are designed to be easy to use. [See Also - Micro-blog Twitter] How can I use a Blog in my course? Reflective Writing Individual students can use weblogs to create and collect reflective exercises such as journals, assignment responses, or directed writing exercises. Using a weblog, instructors don’t have to collect, sort, and archive email messages or bulletin board entries. Because weblog entries are “published” rather than simply sent to an individual, it highlights and reinforced the idea [Read On...]
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