This week I finished teaching my first online class, Politics and Law. I was lucky to work with 8 good-natured seniors, and enjoyed the experience. Throughout the class the greatest challenge that I faced was getting students to complete their assignments. In some ways this was nothing new, in most regular level classes that I […]
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TelePresence
I am nearing the end of my my first trimester teaching a blended Politics and Law class. The blend is two days a week in a Cisco TelePresence room with the other days online. The technology is truly impressive; interactions with students at three other remote sites became natural very quickly. The students seem to […]
My mind has turned toward history teaching again this week after a summer of Online Politics and Law curriculum writing. August on the calendar has me thinking about the other classes that I will be teaching this fall: Global Studies and AP European History. And, over last weekend I reviewed some US History curriculum as […]
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Crossroads
I have been online a lot this summer, taking two online classes and writing another. I was already signed up for Instructional Design in Online Learning through UW Stout (Educ 763) as part of Stout’s E-learning and Online Teaching Certificate program when I learned that I would be writing and then teaching Online Politics and Law. […]